DIVING FORCE?

I would like to make a comment in regards to Don King...oh, I mean John Force. Every race I watch this year, it becomes clearer and clearer that Force is throwing the races in order to reward Tony for his years of backseat driving. This is not racing, and I feel it could have a negative effect eventually to the funny car ranks. After Columbus and his peddle job that I saw as, lets make a left turn here and cross the centerline in order to let Tony win, was embarrassing. We are racers and it is and should stay as may the best man win! I would enjoy hearing others comments on this subject as it is becoming pathetic.

Ken Becker

P.S. Maybe a cat scan is in order for ol' John cause as many times as he has peddled a car I think Sunday proved that blood must not be reaching the proper areas of his brain.

PRO MOD MISFITS?

Too bad that NHRA slapped the Pro Mod guys hard, basically giving them the "cold day in Hades" pep talk. I like the class a lot, but I have always considered it "out of place" in NHRA. Kudos to everyone who tried (AMS, et al) to get NHRA fired up. But it is a small fish in the ocean to NHRA.

I know marketing, etc. is much harder for IHRA, but at least you get top line billing. As a sportsman racer, I do not understand why the ruckus over entry fees (always a small part of the cost of entering an event).

Welcome back to the mud out back with the rest of us sportsmen; come on down and eat BBQ and have a beer. Don't want to do that? -- Get a fuel car. Don't waste time on Pro Stock, get a fuel car if you want NHRA to pay attention. Life will go on, even if we have to burn our beads and headbands.

William D. (Dee) Kruse

DAVID, THAT'S OUR 'DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE'

DRO...Folks, I've just got to say, you've got some serious stones!!! DRO has taken some controversial positions on various issues, but Chris Martin's recent article is WAAAYYY over the top. As a freelance tech writer that has published around 75-100 articles, I have felt the sting of a senior editor telling me "whoa buddy, you may be right, but we can't say THAT, an advertiser/sponsor/association, may be offended." And then you folks allow Mr. Martin to take a position I'm certain will generate more negative correspondence than everything else you've done combined. Well Chris, I've felt the same way for quite a while and I just want to put an X in the "way to go DRO" column.

And just for the record, I absolutely believe in some positive life force (call him/her God, it that works for you). However, my God doesn't want me to kill anyone on his behalf, isn't really short of cash, doesn't want me to do anything illicit to young boys, or try to make anyone see things his (my) way. All he/she really wants (I think) is for me to be a good person and maybe leave the world just a tiny bit better than I found it. And, do it quietly.

Good job DRO, my hat's off to you. Continue to call it how you see it and know a bunch of us are in your corner!!

Regards,
David Poffenbarger

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ATTA BOY, CHRIS

Thanks. I am also tired of these people.

Love and Happiness.
Jim Lyon

WE GOT 'EM

Regarding the Martin Chronicles on 6/19/03 "this God business," I just have to say I agree wholeheartedly. I don't knock anyone for believing or for giving thanks. But I, for one, am sick of listening to it, also.

Excuse me for being rude and using the words "balls," but I'm just glad someone finally had the balls to say it out loud!!! Thanks, Chris!

S. Purcella