Some Englishtown observations.

[cmracing]

This has nothing to do with racing, just following-up on comments above in regards to E-Towns facility. Yes, there are pot holes, yes, they are very annoying, and yes, they are going to get fixed.

The entire facility was rented-out right after Sandy hit to several different companies to store flood damaged cars before going to auction or getting crushed. Those companies really damaged that place. The 400 lot (next to staging lanes and lake/fuel area) got completely destroyed. Was always the last lot to get fixed in the past, still is.......

Hopefully it all gets done before the 2017 season starts again.

[Signman]

Originally Posted by goinbroke2

X2 Signman, well put. One line though " dragsters being attractive to young people and the best bang for your buck in sportsman and bracket racing." This is a point (perhaps this isn't the forum, but since you brought it up) that my kid brought up to me. He's out of junior dragsters soon and wanted a bigger dragster, I told him they're too expensive and you have to be in Super Pro here which is 11.50 and faster. His next question was thought provoking.."Why, why do you have to go so fast in a dragster, why can't you start out say 12 seconds?" Hundred reasons why but the point was valid, we made juniors for kids to rejuvenate the sport..why not give them (or anybody) the next stepping stone and allow 12 sec dragsters?
Yes I said he can drive my mustang in Stock elim but that's not the point. He grew up in dragsters and wants to continue in dragsters but I don't have the pockets to do it.

Hope he likes a slow, boring, full bodied car to race next....

We must always race within our budget no matter.

[Lenny5160]

Originally Posted by goinbroke2

He's out of junior dragsters soon and wanted a bigger dragster, I told him they're too expensive and you have to be in Super Pro here which is 11.50 and faster. His next question was thought provoking.."Why, why do you have to go so fast in a dragster, why can't you start out say 12 seconds?" Hundred reasons why but the point was valid, we made juniors for kids to rejuvenate the sport..why not give them (or anybody) the next stepping stone and allow 12 sec dragsters?
Yes I said he can drive my mustang in Stock elim but that's not the point. He grew up in dragsters and wants to continue in dragsters but I don't have the pockets to do it.

I've seen a few guys drop a bone stock 350 into a dragster and run very low 11s. I think you'd need to try pretty hard to get a dragster into the 12s.

An older dragster chassis and junkyard motor will run Super Pro and be vastly cheaper than any half-decent door car. Even without the junkyard motor route, a friend was running a fairly heavy S-10 into the very low 11s with a $700 parts-store short block.

1320racer has his way of saying things, but he's usually not far off. I started racing as a fairly young kid, at 17. I'm pushing 40 now, and I'm still one of the 'kids' in the staging lanes!

[1320racer]

Originally Posted by Signman

Sportsman racing is not dying.

the sort is not dying it moving with the times.

The sport IS dying and sportsman racing with it!

IF you are looking honestly and not through self serving glasses, it's painfully obvious the demographic building and driving these cars in every class and it ain't Millennials, aged 18 to 34 and the primary reason for that is not the economy, it's the fact that america no longer has a car culture, no longer is in love with car. Many kids aka millennials don't even care about getting their license at 16/17 no mind building and/or racing a hot rod.

Originally Posted by cmracing

The entire facility was rented-out right after Sandy hit to several different companies to store flood damaged cars before going to auction or getting crushed. Those companies really damaged that place. The 400 lot (next to staging lanes and lake/fuel area) got completely destroyed.

Mike, Sandy was 4 years ago, there's no excuse for the condition of the facility 4 years later.

[keith ohanesian]

This guy is just bitter.

Originally Posted by 1320racer

The sport IS dying and sportsman racing with it!

IF you are looking honestly and not through self serving glasses, it's painfully obvious the demographic building and driving these cars in every class and it ain't Millennials, aged 18 to 34 and the primary reason for that is not the economy, it's the fact that america no longer has a car culture, no longer is in love with car. Many kids aka millennials don't even care about getting their license at 16/17 no mind building and/or racing a hot rod.


Mike, Sandy was 4 years ago, there's no excuse for the condition of the facility 4 years later.