Joe Newbie, 20 Builds a "Stocker"' in 2023

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Originally Posted by Billy Nees

Realistically, NHRA in all of it's Eliminators has left the average person behind. There is no longer any Eliminator which could be called "Entry Level" and that includes Jr. Dragster.

I really don't know how we can blame NHRA for letting all these costs get out of hand. This has happened in every motorsport except for maybe the 24 hours of Lemons. No one ever said you had to spend as much on a super street engine as a stocker engine. If you look at the " Evolution " of all these classes, it all comes down to someone trying to get ahead of the curve to get a competitive advantage.
Short of having a claimer rule, you will never stop someone from spending their money to go faster or win more rounds.
Racers buy 15k engines for street stocks to win 300 dollars at the local short track, and there are a whole bunch of racers and ex racers that feel that form of racing is ruined too.
Ya just gotta roll with it and keep going. Hopefully the roller lifter effort doesn't win too fast lol