New Super Stock classes added

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NOPI, the big time rice race promoter just announced they were suspending all remaining races for 2008.

[Dick Butler]

Another class opening up at events to attract more entry payers. Helps fill the pits at Divisionals and pay the purses. The seven guys running Nationally last year will each have a divisional race to run. Some new sponsors will have a place to guarntee prize money which can add to the NHRA prize purses. Good business for NHRA ? maybe. Good for Class racing or Sportsman racing in general. NO. Divides the number of people who want to race into smaller and smaller numbers of people per class. More Bracket racing....

[Adger Smith]

Dick,
Smaller classes? Like the class of broken CV joints?
I'll be glad to run one any round... Esp the final.. Chances are they would break before the final. They are about the only thing that breaks more than mine.

[Terry Cain]

Don't most of the rice burners use Alcohol?

[Tim Kish]

Will be interesting how they write the rules - current sport Compact all motor rules allow full tube chassis, non-oem body panels (1pc front ends) and Methanol - it's more of a Comp class than Super Stock but I know the Comp guys would go ballistic if they added a class with cars that ONLY run high 9's.

BTW - since they added the turbo FWD classes into Comp I don't believe a single one has attendedn an event. Don't look for an overtaking.

[Mike Pearson]

I dont know about you guys but I cant wait for those bibini contests!!!!!!!

[Sean Haning]

Originally Posted by Mike Pearson

I dont know about you guys but I cant wait for those bibini contests!!!!!!!

You mean theres races at the sport compact bikini shows? WOW! I've been missing it all this time.

[Jason Oldfield]

I'd bet money that this is just damage control by NHRA. After eliminating the Sport Compact Series and sending it over to NOPI, and now NOPI having financial problems and suspending operations, these guys have no place to race. They were already pissed off when NHRA handed them over to NOPI, and I know a few of them were already talking PST lawsuit. If NHRA can make a few classes to show that they didn't eliminate them completely and actually gave them an alternative place to race, any such lawsuit would probably be seen as frivilous and thrown out.

Regardless, I bet the number of sport compacts you see running in S/S will never be any more than the number of FWD cars you see running in S/S...

[Terry Cain]

Originally Posted by Tim Kish

Will be interesting how they write the rules - current sport Compact all motor rules allow full tube chassis, non-oem body panels (1pc front ends) and Methanol - it's more of a Comp class than Super Stock but I know the Comp guys would go ballistic if they added a class with cars that ONLY run high 9's.

BTW - since they added the turbo FWD classes into Comp I don't believe a single one has attendedn an event. Don't look for an overtaking.

Tim,
Just read somewhere, NHRA is also going to setup some more classes in Comp for the faster Imports.
Hmmm, let's see, 3 seconds under the current SS index should get ya into the 128 car field. How would it feel if say, we have 128 of these cars that no one has a clue of what they should be rated at? Class winners of combinations where guys have beat on a combination for 30-40 years ( NHRA factored, I might add) can go home.
Nothing at all against imports or FWD (come real close to building one at one time) but holy cow, WAKE UP NHRA.

[Myron Piatek]

Originally Posted by Adger Smith

Dick,
Smaller classes? Like the class of broken CV joints?
I'll be glad to run one any round... Esp the final.. Chances are they would break before the final. They are about the only thing that breaks more than mine.

Could it be that NHRA recinded the Sportsman oil down penalties in anticipation of adding the rice burners to the program!