Calling out all Mustangs

[David Barton]

Originally Posted by JOSEPHTEUTON

Mr. Barton, within the cars competing in the supercar class I do believe that we are the fastest mopars. We would love for you to come race with us and represent MOPAR.

Relax, I was just stirring the pot. I would love to join in on the fun but there is too many reasons not to go. We do have to work sometimes. The schedule has way too many conflicting dates, I would have to give up many good races in my back yard to travel 1000's of miles. Plus they only qualify 8 cars? That's pretty stupid. I wouldn't travel all the way to Houston to maybe qualify the race. With a new gig like this I would think they would take anyone who shows up.

#1 - Houston is way too far for me

#2 - Bristol is the week after Mopar's at the Strip and the same week as our first NHRA points race and the same week as our 2-day $10K race at Maple Grove.

#3 - I would really like to go to the Reading race in my back yard but its the same weekend as our Atco Nat'l Open. So unless our SS/AH guys plan on skipping that race and my car owner plans on going ADRL, that one is no good either.

#4 - St. Louis is the same weekend as the Englishtown Nat'l which is 2 hours from my house and has S/S class.

#5 - No excuse for the Richmond race yet. There is 2 conflicting dates but nothing I have comitted to yet.

#6 - Martin, MI race is the same weekend as the "Hemi Shootout" at Beaver Springs.

#7 - Charlotte is the same weekend as our Atco points race and the 422 Allstars race at Maple Grove in my back yard.

#8 - Memphis is the week after Indy which is bad enough, plus its the same weekend as our Englishtown points race.

#9 - Norwalk has no conflicting dates, but its the week before the Reading Nat'l and the week after that is the Dutch Classic. Really busy time of year for us.

#10 - Dallas is too far

I understand they don't know until you try it but the weights look ridiculous to me. And please, correct me if I'm wrong because I'm just going by memory.

At Indy, the V10's weighed 3590 lbs in AA/SA and the 6.1's weighed 3200 lbs in AA/SA. I ran 9.67 in A/SA, according to my rough calculations I would have run high 9.40's in AA/SA which is pretty close to what the V10's were running.

I think at Indy is was close between the V10's and 6.1's. But now for ADRL the 6.1's have to add 50 lbs and the V10's get to remove 190 lbs. Who came up with this calculation? That's over 2 tenths.

Plus if I was a 5.7 guy I would be pretty turned off because they have it even worse. 512 (3400 lbs) vs. 345 (3250) = 150 lbs for an extra 167 cubes?

I guess we'll see how it works out. I really do hope it turns out well. I'm not trying to piss on it before it starts but it really needs some adjusting.