BETTER THAN NOTHING
I'm not much of a reader but your article on IHRA vs. NHRA
got my attention. Especially the comments on NHRA and Banning=No
Drag Strip.
If IHRA wants to put a strip around here I would gladly
accept it.
Thanks for the good writings.
Ed Sokol
Hemet, CA
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UPSET
SPORTSMAN
I just wanted to say how upset I am about NHRA changing
their sportsman format of only have selected classes at
selected races. They seem to have forgotten that the pros
of today were sportsman racers yesterday. Not every sportsman
racer can take time from work to travel an additional four
or five hundred miles to make the next closest national
event -- that is if their class is in that event, or else
they have to wait and hope they get accepted the following
year, if the class is not filled.
Maybe now is the time for IHRA to start enticing the sportsman
racer, and move west where they are really needed. Or maybe
Wally Parks should sack Tom Compton and get a car enthusiast
back in control instead of a suit just interested in the
bottom line and doesn't give a damn about the racers.
IHRA we need you now more than ever out west. Look what
happened to CART when they thought they were indestructible;
it could happen to NHRA and maybe needs to, to bring them
back into reality of drag racing, and why people drag race
and how important the sportsman racer is.
David Garcia
SEPARATE BUT EQUAL?
The recent rule change in the NHRA TAD class: Why don't
they just start a class for A fuel dragsters? A fuel races
A fuel and Blown races Blown, then at the end of the year
the top points earners in each class race each other for
the championship?
Glen Brown
FASTEST FORD?
You mentioned in your article about fast small block Fords
that Bill Glidden has made the quickest and fastest small
block Ford pass in history (normally aspirated with Nitrous).
Not to discount this in any way, but I don't believe this
is true. Mike Lyons has run 7.07 @189 with a 352" Ford
in B/D in 2002. In fact, I drove Mike's car in B/ED at Rockingham
2002 and ran 7.08 @ 188 in qualifying. Granted this is not
a door car but it is normally aspirated WITHOUT nitrous
assist at only 352". Just thought I'd give credit where
credit is due. Mike builds an awesome small block Ford!
Regards,
Brian Seward
According to our reporters, Bill ran a 7.05 in pre-race
testing at Bradenton. -- Editor
