Indy Class ...Enhanced !

[GUMP]

Originally Posted by Bruce Noland

Now look at you. I'm away for three days and you are all bad a**!

Not at all.

Lets start with the big mouth part first. You didn't come over to me at Gainesville. We were in the lanes getting ready to run class and we had a candid conversation about the way we felt about these cars with no vitriol from either one of us. You certainly didn't have your little chest all pumped out at the time and I'm surprised to read your creative account of our discussion. As I remember our race didn't go so well for you.

I remember it exactly the way you do. I really wasn't expecting it to be that easy going as you had been giving me the same attitude on here then as you are now. As far as the race, it is still one of my favorite runs ever. I got great photos!

The solid rear ends were allowed in Corvettes because as an axle ripped through the fiberglass floor or a Corvette while racing and destroyed a racers arm. So, yes safety is important.

I am not arguing with that. But, it opened the door for what came later on the newer Corvettes and GTOs, which opened the door for what has been allowed for the 2008 up cars.

I like the dime rockets, they were production cars and don't represent institutional cheating by the OEM's.

I like them too. I don't agree with the last part. Jesse posted a letter from NHRA to him (on Facebook) that was written in 2008. It doesn't show any of the narrative that you have been pushing.

On the other hand you represent all that is bad about this sport. Buying your way in with a bogus car and trying to blow smoke about it when we all know the truth. The rules do not have to change when a system is corrupted by the OEM's.

You are welcome to your opinion. For the record, I was racing Stock long before the new cars. Also, when you beat me at Gainesville, pretty much everything in the car was home grown.

I'll be at Indy. Maybe we can visit in the lanes again.

Free country.

[Jim Bailey]

….Wow … I'll be at Indy too. As a spectator. I was just hoping to see the classes, run as classes, during class eliminations.... I'm getting old, just trying to make things less complicated...…. Maybe next year, ( if I can get doctor clearance ), I can be part of this madness... Then again, not sure I want too.

[Billy Nees]

So one of the manufacturers greased one (or all) of the NHRA board members. So what, it's not like it hasn't happened before. Let us get back to the subject of Class at Indy!

[Jack McCarthy]

ill do my best if the COMET shows up on time ill try to find the R/SA guys and follow them out ...

figure T/SA gremlin guy is bringing his dragpak instead

seeya thursday guys > im sure another HP gifted FFFord is gonna beat me again, but hey why should i complain as this thread shows us NHRA dont care about rules or fairness just that $360 the181 of us ponied up (thats $65,160 if you are counting, i am) !!!

[fastlane]

In the last few years there were not that many FS cars around now that there are about 6-7 years worth I would like to see them all put into a separate catorgory where they run each other in the same way they do in stock eliminator except the racing would be closer and there would be a lot more heads up racing. That would make everyone happy all the guys who complain about running the FS cars is unfair why I could never figure out and it would make all the new cars guys happy because they would not be spotting up to 9 seconds and also have a lot of heads up runs. What is wrong with that except NHRA won’t like it. And In that separate catorgory they could allow a 10.5 tire to make it a bit safer for 8 second cars running over 160 mph. That would stop all the complaining and make both sides happy.