Interesting Thoughts-- Future of Stk/SS

[1matcoman]

Originally Posted by devo340

He recently won his first race in Stock.
I asked him how it rated with other races that he had won, he said it was his best racing accomplishment to date.

And there you have it, folks!

[sska3360]

I don't usually post much, i try to sit back and take in the knowledge and opinions of the more seasoned racers, however i feel like i'm in a similar situation. I too, am a second generation racer, though a good bit older than your son, however my father has pretty much always raced class. I'm in the same boat as your son, still trying to learn all i can. i started by bracket racing our Super Stocker and just recently participated in my first Super Stock race. While i didn't win the race, i did get my first SS round win, and against a tough competitor to boot and i felt more accomplished in that than in any bracket round win i had gotten. As for the teardowns, I 100% believe in them, even though i would probably not be able to accomplish it by myself yet. But i will still be ready at any time. Fortunately, as racers, we have a tight nit group of friends who i believe would be happy to help get me through it.

[ALMACK]

Sad to say but the younger gearheads are drawn to heads up racing and grudge racing, as well as no prep racing.

The common denominator for those classes is the absence of a bunch of rules and restrictions.
They meet min. weight, max. tire size, and the largest power adder allowed for their class.

As much as I love Stock and Super Stock racing, it's hard to attract new blood in class racing with all the restrictions in place.

Just my opinion....

[Bob Mulry]

Since everybody seems to be dissecting Stock, let me throw in my 2 cents....

You want more HEADS-UP racing just listen to my plan....

No quotas in Stock and Super Stock at any National Event..

If you think that you can qualify enter the race and if not that's OK you can still race LODRS until you are.

32, 64, 128 car fields because Competition will sort it out....

Class winners only (OK if you need more cars to fill the fields add fastest qualifiers to the bottom..

The more popular national events will need larger fields..

It's hard to head-up races at a national event with Class Eliminations when the quota is capped at 60 cars...

I believe that there are someplace around 80 different classes within Stock Eliminator..

If Stock and Super Stock are to continue to survive, heads-up racing with cars in the same class is needed..

The FS are OK but they should have to race their way into the eliminator by winning class or being a low qualifier to fill the open spots.

In 1985 at INDY we pitted alongside of a team that had raced at INDY for the last 4 years and this was the first time they qualified for Super Stock Eliminator. To them qualifying at INDY was the same as being World Champion.

It's got to mean something, or it means nothing..

Or am I just tilting at windmills??????

[sska3360]

Well, I think I might have jinxed us with my last post on this thread. We're getting ready to take our friends stocker that we're racing at Indy to the teardown barn to pull a rod and piston!

[djm670]

Originally Posted by sska3360

Well, I think I might have jinxed us with my last post on this thread. We're getting ready to take our friends stocker that we're racing at Indy to the teardown barn to pull a rod and piston!

I hope your friend was running the T/S Comet .... if so you should be in and out in less than 3 or 4 hours even pulling a rod and piston. The pan drops right off. It is one of the best vehicles and engines to be running if you have to pull a rod and piston at an NHRA teardown.

We were lucky several years ago at the Winternationals when everyone in teardown had to pull a rod and piston to be running Doolittle's W/S Comet.... We were in and out before most guys had their V8 pans off.

Good luck!