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Amen! Now, how do we get NHRA to listen to
the idea? Get the teams to agree on it and
we are half way there....
David Schopp
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#4
On changing the ladder back . . . I agree.
Don Richerson
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#5
NHRA changed back to this ladder a few years
ago in the sportsman classes, the lower qualified
cars (especially Comp) had no chance. This
move helped even the Comp field. I talked
to several of the drivers that had "slower"
or bottom (been there plenty of times!) half
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cars
that felt they never had a chance until the
ladder changed.
Another change that would not cost a penny
is change the tree to .3 pro and .4 full.
The excessive amount of red lights makes
for poor racing and poor television.
I enjoy your insight on sportsman racing,
you seem to be one of few that understand
us. We spend as much money as many pro teams,
but choose to be sportsman.
Jeff Gillette
Comp Elim B/ED
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I agree 100% that they should go to the old
way of doing things. It really does the sport
a world of good when the unsponsored team
hurts every part in the trailer to qualify
15th or 16th and then pretty much blows it
up in the first round because all they have
are spare parts bought from one of the higher
financed teams that already used up. I say
go back to the #1 runs #9, #2 runs #10 ...
#8 runs #16.
Thanks for listening.
Augie Costanza
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#7
In three words, you are wrong. Here is my
reason why. If these teams on the bottom of
the qualifying are gambling like you said
and blow motors, etc then they are just fools
periods. Consistency wins in these classes.
The top qualifiers deserve to run the slower
cars. Occasionally the top qualifiers screw
up also and then you have to have a car that
at least gets down the track to beat the top
guys. You set the car up to get down the track
and hope for the best. I'll repeat the earlier;
consistency wins.
Kurt Carlson
Kurt,
Think you may have missed the point. I'm
not worried about the racer or who qualifies
where. My concern is that the fuel classes,
as they are being run now, are just bad from
the casual spectator's point of view. If the
sport and spectator base are to grow, we have
to offer better racing for those race fans
that currently spend all their time watching
NASCAR or Demo Derbies. Actually, a case could
be made that anyone burning nitromethane (a
rocket fuel) in an internal combustion engine
is a fool. God bless 'em. --JB
