Do you race your stocker/super stocker at "regular" races?

[jmcarter]

Big pro is brackets keep you sharp but you can set up a "cheaper" bracket car such that it's very close to your class car. To me the biggest drawback is a class car is usually on a ~200 run freshen interval vs. ~500 run bracket motor.

[Michael Beard]

Originally Posted by jmcarter

Big pro is brackets keep you sharp but you can set up a "cheaper" bracket car such that it's very close to your class car. To me the biggest drawback is a class car is usually on a ~200 run freshen interval vs. ~500 run bracket motor.

I bracket race my Class cars. While I have the bracket car my dad built and still race it from time to time, my Super Stocker is faster and more consistent, and the additional seat time is invaluable, particularly since so many Class events are limited runs spread over multiple days. If you were starting out from scratch, I would think it would be cheaper to build and maintain one car than two...

Last time the bracket car was freshened was 2001, and the Class car typically gets something fresh more out of want than need.

[GarysZ24]

I haven't done it primarily because my stocker is slower than the NHRA Pro ET brackets et limit (I believe 13.99 sec.). Sportsman payouts are much lower than Stock (or Pro ET), payouts are. I didn't build my car to race for $200 bucks or less (regularly). However, for now it doesn't really matter since (for the time being anyway), metro Phoenix has no tracks to race at, and thus the only bracket racing I could do would be in the No-Box class at S.I.R. in Tucson, for the IHRA. Their bracket category at least pays $550 for the winner ($700 if more than 32 cars). Only if a divisional is coming up that I can attend, would I race my car for what the Sportsman brackets pay, due to the seat time needed...regularly though? Not...

Furthermore, I don't have the pleasure of storing my racing operation where I live, and that creates more challenges with my being able to race in a state, that due to summertime heat, races late in the afternoon, until midnight...not good if the person you store your rig with doesn't have the same interest/desires...