Super Pro racers can run it (with enough advance notice to get the delay box disabled or removed). Footbrake racers can run it without buying electronics. Heads-up racers know it isn't heads-up but at least they understand pro-tree racing. Test and Tuners don't feel like the bracket racers have the shoe polish advantage and don't have to worry about the breakout too much, at least for a while. Bracket racers get to try something different at the starting line and the finish line (remember, no shoe polish). Super class racers recognize the appeal of setting up for an index and driving the stripe. And finally, rookies can understand it a little easier than dial-in full tree racing and might want to give it a whirl. Car count will increase at Saturday night local events and it won't be all the same whiny bracket racers (from the track operator's point of view).

Getting crazy for a moment, I can even envision a future where we combine Super Comp, Super Gas and Super Street into an Open Comp format and get rid of the cursed throttle stops (Super class racers, you know you want to, even if you can't admit it).

Then we run Top Sportsman and Top Dragster (just like they are, delay boxes and a qualified field) along with Open Comp at divisional races, and presto, a streamlined Sportsman racing regime with no throttle-stop cars, a legitimate non-electronics class and no spending megabucks to hit the next faster index. The key idea is that it leaves a "bottom rung" for the new Sportsman racer to grab. I'm telling you, I'm jumping, but I can barely reach the ladder now - they keep pulling it up a little every year.

I know the chances of a sanctioning body seriously considering something that will mean less racer spending and an outcry from those who already spent their $5,000 on electronics are slim and none, but someone should tilt at the windmill.

Anyway, Rollins Automotive will be sponsoring a six-race Open Comp gambler's series at Gainesville Raceway using the rules above on Saturday nights formerly occupied by points races but now devoted to Test and Tune because of -- you guessed it -- declining car count. We'll pay back 100 percent of the entries and have a good time doing it. Thanks to Don Robertson, the General Manager, for giving something different a chance. As I tell my teenage daughter when she wears something unfathomable to school, maybe we'll start a trend.

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