What can be done?

[killintime6968]

When the muscle car era died, drag racing started its decline. If factory stock wars was more public it may well help create more interest. Walk into just about any car dealership nowadays and all you see is family sedans and suvs . Not many muscle cars.

[SSGN]

Some great opinions here and to a point it is sad what is happening but change is the only thing constant today. I think class racing and the professional classes are changing and not for the best. However I don't see drag racing as a hole dying.

When I search factory stock on my apple box in youtube it will display other forms also . Look at ,Drag week, Outlaw street cars, x 275, L/S Fest and many more. The stands are packed and venues are full. I am not a fan of some but the fact is these are younger people and they are racing.

I think a lot of people don't have or want a motorhome and the thought of being stacked in a field for a day has no interest for them. Go to L/S fest and you will see more open trailers then all NHRA races combined. Just an observation.

[Mark Yacavone]

Originally Posted by SSGN

When I search factory stock on my apple box in youtube it will display other forms also . Look at ,Drag week, Outlaw street cars, x 275, L/S Fest and many more. The stands are packed and venues are full. I am not a fan of some but the fact is these are younger people and they are racing.

I think a lot of people don't have or want a motorhome and the thought of being stacked in a field for a day has no interest for them. Go to L/S fest and you will see more open trailers then all NHRA races combined. Just an observation.

Not a solution, but I wanted to interject here.
I blame NHRA for letting the above folks get away.
Look what they allowed to happen to Stock, Super Stock and Super Street.
Very few young family guys can afford to jump into what was the original form of drag racing, ...long before all the other spin-offs, including but not limited to bracket racing, Super this and that shows, even before test and tune nights.
I'm not sure if it was the result of a short sighted plan, or no plan at all.

Back to P/Stock, I mean Pro / Stock..

[Jeff Teuton]

Makes you wonder. There was an offer by a sponsor to fund a series of unblown new cars, prize money, yearly deal, and NHRA turned him down because he didn't want the blown cars also. I think that was a mistake as those cars are about one third the cost of running the blown cars. I think it would have made another heads up series worth the trouble. Did anyone else hear of this. It was Nick at American Racing Headers in New York who made the offer.