"SEX, DRAGS & ROCK-n-ROLL

Get the Car, Get the Money, Get the Parts, Get the Honey Does building a fast car really bring the honeys? Yes, it most certainly does. You get the right car, you earn some money, you get the right parts and then you go fast to get the honeys. If you are a racer, that is what your primal instinct tells you.

Who cares if your primal instinct is right or wrong? Who cares if your desire for sex is stronger than your reason? We are not perfect. We are only human. "DRAG Sport will use the term "modern" to refer to both import and sport compact drag racing. Modern drag racing is much different than "Nostalgic" racing where technology has been locked into

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the 50s and 60s. We don't run blowers, magnetos or carburetors. We do have a belief in technology. That is why we HAVE found replacements for displacement."

In the following issue there was a letter questioning the magazine's chosen position on what constitutes "modern drag racing" and its technological point of view. The editorial rebuttal, in part:

"Turbos are good because they are an efficient forced induction method. Turbos, centrifugal superchargers, and even some of recently-designed positive-displacement superchargers have high adiabatic efficiencies. "Blowers" is a term that usually refers to '50s-technology positive-displacement superchargers that are inefficient mechanisms in the forced-induction plan. Methanol is only OK depending on who you ask. Depending on which IDRC class you are referring to, Methanol may or may not be an approved fuel. Nitromethane is bad because it has been the performance band-aid that has allowed Top Fuel categories to generate incredible horsepower despite the use of antiquated carburetors, blowers and 500 cubic-inch engines...."

Style is its substance.

I was particularly struck by one of your comments pertaining to threats of legal action should NOPI and NHRA be mentioned in the same sentence (mostly because it is cogent to my research). I am assuming that the threat was from NHRA. Please correct me if that assumption is incorrect.

Len Romanick