|
|
![]() |
#1 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2015
Location: Inver Grove Heights, MN
Posts: 898
Likes: 604
Liked 431 Times in 224 Posts
|
![]()
He is old! He's also realistic about it.
__________________
S/ST 51 S/C 53 |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#2 |
VIP Member
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Toms River NJ
Posts: 1,594
Likes: 418
Liked 53 Times in 25 Posts
|
![]()
Being realistic is fine some people don.t like change but we all know thinks change all the time not going to stop.
__________________
Dennis P Chapman 1904 STK NHRA National Record Holder Car Owner. |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#3 |
VIP Member
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: On a hilltop in Pa.
Posts: 4,496
Likes: 3,600
Liked 7,771 Times in 1,741 Posts
|
![]()
How does any of this have anything to do with "splitting" the pros and Sportsmen? We're old, the pros are old and the B-O-D is old. You're old too Ed. Your kid, not old.
__________________
Billy Nees 1188 STK, SS I'm not spending 100K to win 2K |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#4 |
Veteran Member
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Sand Springs, OK
Posts: 8,132
Likes: 896
Liked 390 Times in 170 Posts
|
![]()
When bracket racing came along, we lost the slow guys to that. Ended up with very small car counts in Stock Eliminator. I asked some local guys why they moved to ET brackets. "Because I have a chance doing that". Mattered if we were fast back then.
We used to have Stock Eliminator, Super Stock, and Modified Elminator every first & third Sunday's at Tulsa. Some of us also ran at Fort Smith, AR second & 4th Sunday's. Ran off National Records then, run more than a tenth under, you break out. I was often the fast car at Tulsa, about a tenth over my own record. Now it's all dumbed down to bracket racing. Hard to get motivated to try to make it any faster. Seems very strange to figure ways to slow it down, that can be easily undone for heads ups, which won't effect your lights.
__________________
Ed Wright 4156 SS/JA |
![]() |
![]() |
Liked |
![]() |
#5 |
VIP Member
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Northern New Jersey suburbs
Posts: 2,314
Likes: 25
Liked 544 Times in 213 Posts
|
![]()
It had to happen Ed Wright or the sport would have been long gone.....It was on life support right before Bracket racing took off...….
IMHO there is no way the Pros and Sportsman can be split other than we no longer are included in National events other than maybe a couple sportsman only events....and maybe one to decide National Champs..... Division Champs + maybe a few more positions race for the National title.. Drag racing as it was in the past is never going to happen and there's no way it could be like it was in the past....
__________________
Rich Biebel S/C 1479 Stock 147R Last edited by Rich Biebel; 02-13-2019 at 04:44 PM. |
![]() |
![]() |
Liked |
![]() |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|