5/19/04

SUPERCHARGED PRO MOD = TOP ALCOHOL FUNNY CAR?

You had the title of your "Burk's Blast" right? It is time they get modified. As far as Greg Anderson is concerned. I bet he is happy he does not have to race top alcohol funny cars as we do. He would not be 3-5 hundredths ahead, he would be light years behind (can you say over a second?) Did this even cross your mind when you quoted Ted Jones? I don't have any problem running within 1-2 hundredths of the top nitrous cars which have equal equipment to mine as in Pro Stock. How is it that you journalists that are supposed to tell both sides of the story always leave out the rest of the story, like back when Scotty Cannon ran Pro Mod with a standard Helix blower and held both ends of the record as the fastest and the quickest Pro Mod? Some of the people that are complaining now are the ones that lobbied IHRA to change the rules so they could run a high Helix blower, because they could not keep up with Scotty or the nitrous cars.

So if they look at all the facts this all started when Scotty was in Greg Anderson's shoes, and that the rest of the blown cars with the same equipment were like the rest of the Pro Stock field and could not keep up with the leader, and worked to have the rules changed and that's what brought on the lack of parity we have now.

Maybe they should have worked a little harder at keeping up with Scotty like they tell us.

So let's look at the facts, Scotty is the fastest and quickest and wins championships regularly. The nitrous cars are competitive.

I won't say everyone is happy but they were happier than they are now. IHRA changes the rules so that the slower cars can become competitive. (sound familiar? )

What goes around comes around.

Dennis Radford

P.S. I think cars should run on gasoline, isn't that what your car runs on?

THERE'S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL

I can't begin to divine the reasons why Baker has made the rule changes but I trust that something besides whining is the impetus behind those changes. Despite the parity on

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paper, the sheer number of racers switching to blown combinations should tell you something. The combination easily makes the most power and probably requires less maintenance too. It's also a very scienced-out combination with the top blown racers bringing in guys from Top Alky to tune their combos. The nitrous guys are strutting in new territory and so far there's only a few of them that are up to the task of keeping up.

I don't think they will ever dominate but the good lord giveth and the good lord taketh away. If they do start to take more than their fair share then changes can be made again. This is professional racing. If they don't have the money to play then there's always the NSCA or PRO...

Michael Ray