6/23/05

THANKS FROM NEARBY. . .

Just wanted to say THANK YOU for the St. Louis coverage. I was very impressed with it, especially the manner in which our classes of competition were explained. Photos were great too! Scooter (Kizer) needs to send you guys at least a free T-shirt for your effort :-) Outstanding.

Thanks again and take care,

Tony Williams
Chief Starter - Prostar

. . .AND FROM THE FAR SIDE OF THE GLOBE

Hey guys, thanks for the look into the latest Pro Star round at St Louis. I think you have done the Nitro Bike boys and girls a big favour by exposing them to a very nitro-hungry audience.

It was neat to see Jay Upton as the lead pic for the story too; he is a great bloke and a local Western Australian, having based himself here since he came to Australia from the UK with his first Puma Yamaha. If anyone would like more information about Jay's racing, his bike or the talented people who help get him on to and down the racetrack, here is his web site addy. www.topfuelpro.com.au.

Keep up the good work, we read every word; even the ads are news to us down here.

Regards,

Stu Bond
Australia

HOW CLASSY

I can say I wasn't surprised to hear about the change at Schumacher Racing. But on the other hand I thought Forces comment after he got beat in the first round last weekend said all! When interviewed on the big end Force handled the loss as a PRO should. Then he went on to say something to the effect that it's not about winning and losing it's all about attitude (I believe he even made reference to Bazemore). Everyone knows that Bazemore and Beard both have attitude although they are bad they still have them. Racing in my opinion would be better off without the both of them and I would be surprised to see either one of them back next year.

Our sport needs more Force's, Scelzi's, Grubnic's, Line's and Connolly's, here's a kid contending for a championship and lost his whole deal but he kept his head high and morale strong and his team responds by not missing a beat.

Thanks and keep it coming,

Mike Musgrove

JERSEY SCENE UPDATE

I have been a reader of DRO for about two years and have been bracket racing for those two years. That is because I started when I was 17 racing in High School Elim. at Raceway Park on Saturday nights. In my first year I raced a 1988 Toyota Camry, FWD, automatic that won me a NHRA Wally and 8 victories.

I was reading (Jok Nicholson's) article this month and figured that an e-mail about some bracket racing in New Jersey was something you would not mind. I do not know what state you are in but it seems that foot brake racing is growing out here and competition is getting a lot tougher. Most of the guys racing a footbrake seem to run high 10's to mid 12's and this seems to be where most of the racers that win come from. Most of these winners go .035 or better on the tree and run with in .04 most of the time. This is a change from the most recent years where a lot of racers ran slower, automatic cars in the high 16's to 18-second range.

At an event we can usually have over 100 footbrake cars in Heavy and about 70 or so in Street E.T. While a lot of people are doing the footbrake thing, there is still a lot of DRAGSTERS coming to the track and fast door cars in Super Pro.

But bracket racing is going strong and not going away anytime soon. It even is catching on with the sport compact kids where at the last NHRA sport compact event in Raceway Park had over 400 racers. . .and most were footbrakers.

Thank you for your time,

Scott Pocaro
Krylon Monster Racing