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

[Mark Yacavone]

Originally Posted by 1347

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

Oh good. I get to bash a different eliminator for a change LOL

NHRA is the rule making body, correct?
They had a few restrictions in the beginning of S/ST, but then they let them slide,..to get them to chase points, I assume.

Problem is, they never see anything coming ahead of time.
When S/ST started, they could have said ..NO timed throttle stops. Back half-ed cars only , (No weighted down S/G cars). 130 mph max, or you lose. (No need for a cubic inch limit then.) No delay box to slow reaction times.
People might even stay in the stands to watch a few of them, if they did wheelies.
Maybe a few retired Stock racers might have tried it.
But no. By not adding a few simple rules, they let S/ST become something other than somewhat inexpensive and entry level.
No real surprise ...