New NHRA "Unleashed" format.....

[Jim Craig]

Originally Posted by Tony Curcio

Right now, it looks like there are no naturally aspirated classes in NHRA Unleashed, which I find disappointing.

Add to that the travel that is necessary to compete in the five scheduled races, and I think participation will take a few years to build in the best of circumstances. I don't think many of those participants will be from S/SS. Most Super Gas cars won't fit into the rules either. It would be nice if there was a class or two where regular NHRA racers could adapt their cars with a day's work and compete when the circus comes to town.

Being televised and hopefully promoted, it should draw some serious players from NMCA, NMRA and ORSCA.

ORSCA & most "street-legal" racing organizations are based on power-adder classes. However, the RAM series in the Maryland / Delaware area are all n/a and both the NMRA & NMCA offer n/a classes.

But to be competitive in the NMRA or NMCA you had better have a Comp eliminator budget and race / testing ethic -- oh, and you don't get to use wheelie bars. Ask John Langer and Butch Kemp about that................

A couple of years ago the NSCA (at Larry Perkin's urging) adopted rules for their Pro Comp class to allow an easy entry of NHRA Comp & super stock GT cars -- you know how many make the trek, NONE. This was a shame because Larry was giving everybody a run for their money and just lived for the competitive nature of the class.

Now Nitro Joe created a class at the NSCA (can't remember what he called it) that was very popular with a lot of NHRA / IHRA stock and super stock racers, I know it started out strong but sort of dwindled away, not sure why. Joe would know, he might chime in here.