question for Mr. Billy Neese and fellow dime rocket racers.

[Mike Carr]

Originally Posted by Billy Nees

What you are looking for already exists but I won't hold my breath waiting for an NHRA track to try it. Beaver Springs Dragway has a class for kids (12-16?) in which they race their parents street car, 1/8 mile, 10.00 or slower with the parent in the passenger seat. In an area where the average parent can't afford a JR dragster it's very popular. Some of the kids have graduated to running the regular bracket program and are very good. For more info, check out their website.

TCR (Teen CHampionship Racing), for kids 13-17. The track I work at weekly (Quaker City in Ohio) has it also, as do Pittsburgh and maybe a few other tracks. Great, and more affordable alternative to Jr Dragsters. As Billy stated, street-legal cars only, 10.00 and slower, 1/8 mile. Child drives the car from staging lanes to timeslip booth; parent/adult co-rider navigates the vehicle through the pits.

[skills]

That is actually what I am talking about Billy that is a great idea. It needs to be for anybody though. Fans like myself that may want to experience what it's like. Tracks have the Friday night street stuff so with the same rules street legal over 10 in the quarter. Random pairing maybe 50 to enter or whatever run at division's and opens. Ed I understand how you feel but nhra is just like the country if we don't do something it will disappear. You all love the dutch because it is all about the racer even if you don't have 20000fans. We can bring in new racers and fans to the national level if we don't at the divisional levels. I look forward to the dutch now because there isn't any nitro or stopping for espn it's just wall to wall racing all day and no scrap. Love muscle cars but I wasn't around with the height of it all. I work for ups freight and believe me there are people there that would be all over this.

[Ed Fernandez]

They used to allow co pilots years ago.No more.The bottom feeder lawyers and insurance types took care of that.

[treessavoy]

Here's the problem: What cars would these guys and gals run, how would they buy them, what would keep the rich kid form dumping everyone and how would you keep costs down.

The Junior Dragsters started out cheap and affordable and have morphed into tens of thousands of dollars.

Lastly, how can they steer and text at the same time and still cut a light?

This is a dead horse! Today's kids don't want any part of drag racing because it's too hard to text, check your play list, play angry birds and pick your nose at the same time!

JimR

[Jason]

...and the kids today think that its not worth watching anything as slow as Super Stock. In their world either nitrous is king or twin turbos and prochargers rule. Not that any of them would ever race something like that. They just like to watch those FAST cars run heads up.

[Hemi Moose]

Originally Posted by treessavoy

Here's the problem: What cars would these guys and gals run, how would they buy them, what would keep the rich kid form dumping everyone and how would you keep costs down.

The Junior Dragsters started out cheap and affordable and have morphed into tens of thousands of dollars.

Lastly, how can they steer and text at the same time and still cut a light?

This is a dead horse! Today's kids don't want any part of drag racing because it's too hard to text, check your play list, play angry birds and pick your nose at the same time!

JimR

Jim, I agree with most of what you said but I don't think every kid today thinks that way...probably 90% of them are into the latest techno thingys but there are still probably the other 10% that are going to school and learning something in the automotive field. Those 10% might just be the ones that do care a little something about drag racing or sportsman racing...I'm sure some of those kids are interested in several types of racing out there, probably the quicker classes but some could still be interested if shown or persuaded. You just have spot someone out of school that shows or takes interest I guess.