11/24/03

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DRO ALMOST AS GOOD AS BEING THERE

Hi Jeff,

We miss everything about our racing days but thanks to people like you we can relive through your articles. A vicarious trip down the track. Keep up the good work.

Fondly,

Della Woods

De Nichols

RE; JOK'S SPORTSMAN SUGGESTIONS

Glad to see someone understand the sportsman problem and condense it down to the basics: lack of decent parking at national events because track owners (including NHRA) will not improve infrastructure. Yet the greed for entry purse money is winning out. Cut a class, but up the entry fee to make up for the lost income with no increase in purse. OUCH.

My only comment about the 64-car fields is: Give some type of preference to local division guys. With a 64-car field, it would just about be only "traveling road show" entrants. I can easily come up with thirty names of professional sportsman racers. Ditto for the internet-

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only entry. By the way, check out superstockforum.com. They had a thread the other day where several people's internet entries were being mixed up because NHRA had poor website security. Not good at all.

I am a pure IHRA racer (and brackets) any more, just got tired of the poor attitude of NHRA towards super class racing. I know super class racing is not the most "fan friendly", but it is far, far, far and away the most cost effective way to go quick and still be a "class" racer. And thus it is participant class, great training ground for the next generation of pros as you have to have superb repeatable driving technique from the burnout to the finish line, a mechanically sound car (with spares), and are starting to learn the importance of appearance, driver attitude, and interaction with fans. The last three things will never be learned at a bracket or divisional race.

Thank you for a very good article.

William D. (Dee) Kruse