Competition Plus DP and CJ article

[Michael Beard]

Respectfully, that's apples and oranges. The 428 wasn't factored at 220HP, and it wasn't running against a field of cars that had already been flogged on for 30 years. As usual -- nothing against the racers that bought them: the blame lies on the shoulders of NHRA. You can't even blame the manufacturer's for trying to slip one through, but NHRA just *couldn't* bring themselves to say, "Really? Sorry, don't think so. How about this?" Also, I've said it before and I'll say it again: I think the new cars are NEAT! Definitely cool. But that doesn't mean that the factors are not totally ridiculous, and that they shouldn't have gone straight into Super Stock since they were not street cars.

I would also argue that making mistakes in the past does not make it okay today. We're supposed to learn from history. 'Course if we did that then we would be following Calvin Coolidge instead of FDR... but I digress.

It *can* be argued, "Race on Sunday, Sell on Monday" -- not selling the cars that were raced, but people *can* buy cars that *look* like the race cars. And oh, BTW, to someone else's point about what NASCAR has become: duly noted. I quit watching it after the first year of the COT.

And I think the mini van is cool!