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So many questions,
so few answers
8/3/05
 ust
Wondering . . . Is it really necessary to have two or three
qualifying sessions for a heads-up, all-run program? If it's all
run, what is the purpose? I say just have one qualifying session
to set the ladder and then start the race.
Just Wondering . . . Am I the only
fan who's tired of all-run programs that have turned qualifying
into a boring and unimportant exercise just to give the track more
time to sell burgers, beers and many times just results in a long,
boring afternoon before a race?
Just Wondering . . . Is there anyone
left who was involved in professional drag racing at any level in
the prior to 1969 that hasn't been inducted into some hall of fame
somewhere? Pretty soon those that haven't been inducted will be
in a more exclusive club than those that have.
Just Wondering . . . How many fans
actually give a damn about pre-race ceremonies (National Anthem
and pre-race prayer aside)? I don't know about you but after I've
been sitting on an aluminum bleacher for a couple of hours in the
sun watching time trials, I'm ready for race cars going down the
track.
Just Wondering . . . Just how quick
and fast an 815-cubic-inch IHRA Pro Stocker that goes 6.30's on
gasoline would go with a couple of stages of nitrous? And while
I'm wondering, how much quicker could one of today's 500-inch motors
drive that have pushed NHRA Pro Stockers into the 6.60's run with
three stages of nitrous?
Just Wondering . . . Wouldn't it
be cool if an unsponsored Pro Stock team in either NHRA or IHRA
airbrushed/painted their car so that from the grandstand it appeared
to be completely stock? I'll bet that would get an unsponsored team
more attention that a "trick" paint job.
Just Wondering . . . Whatever happened to that five-second
pass that the rule changes in NHRA Pro Mod was supposed to facilitate?
Just Wondering . . . Whatever happened
to Scotty Cannon?
Just Wondering . . . Am I the only
one that thinks the vicious, run the guts out of 'em every lap,
eight-car, qualified Pro Mod races at NHRA events in 2003-2004 will
be looked back on in history as the golden age of Pro Mod racing?
Just Wondering . . . Does anyone
remember when there was almost a revolt in the NHRA Nitro Funny
Car ranks when Force announced a third team? Boy, have times changed!
At last count Schumacher has seven or eight and no one seems to
care anymore.
Just Wondering . . . How much longer
will the innovators in nitro racing keep designing and building
expensive new parts only to have the NHRA tech department shoot
the ideas down? Especially since, apparently, the tech department
initially gives them an unofficial okay to build the part.
Just Wondering . . . Is it just
a matter of time before we regularly see five-second, 235-mph bracket
cars?
Just Wondering . . . Why George
Howard's "Million Dollar" bracket race doesn't attract
more media attention? It just goes to show that money doesn't attract
media . . . unless you are bribing, er, I mean paying them!
Just Wondering . . . Why didn't
the NHRA buy a full page ad with race and TV schedules in USA Today
when that newspaper had the big story about second generation Pro
racers? It was the perfect opportunity to give the sport a boost
-- I thought.
Just Wondering . . . Will another
driver have to be killed or severely injured in drag racing because
he or she wasn't wearing a head and neck restraint before the sanctioning
bodies make them a mandatory safety item? How are those devices
any different than seatbelts or a firesuit. I know, I know, I've
said this before, but people continue to get needlessly hurt.
Just Wondering . . . Have you noticed
that all of the Force drivers, including John Force himself, now
wear a head and neck device? Hmmm, wonder what caused him to change
his mind?
Just Wondering . . . With less
than a month until drag racing's (supposedly) biggest event, why
haven't I seen something promoting that race other than ticket sales
ads on NHRA TV? Wouldn't you think they would have had a U.S. Nationals
segment on every NHRA2day show and two-hour event broadcast starting
with the coverage from Sonoma? After all the U.S. Nationals is the
biggest race in drag racing, isn't it? Well, isn't it? 
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