A subject for discussion on a winter's day.

[Ed Wright]

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.

[Rich Biebel]

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....