RULES, RULES, RULES
Well to start, NASCAR should not call itself stock car racing.
The cars are all alike. You can't tell what they are if
you can't read the brand on the car. What BULL. There are
too many rules. Whatever happened to "run what you
brung." If you can't win with that, bring something
else.
Pro Mod is the only true drag racing left AND it is being
ruled to death.
Thanks.
Bill Sterling
California
COULD HE DO ANY WORSE?
Burk, just want to say that you are so right on the stuff
you talk about. Keep up the good work. Maybe you should
run NHRA?
Gary Jacobson
FL
HERE'S A SOLUTION
I fully agree with (Burk's) idea of having one big event
a season to grab media attention in the way the Daytona/Indy
500s do. If NHRA wants to compete with NASCAR and the open
wheel series for live TV coverage, they must modify their
existing event schedules to accommodate the needs of a live
TV feed. I would suggest that all non-professional classes
be run to the semi-final round before Sunday (or Monday
at Indy) so that there is no log-jam of eliminations or
undue downtime between Pro categories.
There is a major difference in the circuit races that NHRA
cannot overcome (their events are of a continuous format
-- be it laps or distance) but this need not be insurmountable.
Most NHRA races I have attended have been run in a most
impressive way in terms of scheduling and logistics. I'm
sure there could be great results with this format I am
proposing also.
It may seem trite to say, but there are no problems, really,
only solutions waiting to happen.
Drag racing - the world's fastest automobile motorsport
- period!
Mike Gamache
Montreal, Canada
THANKS, MOM
Darr, I read your article twice, then sent it to my mother.
I'm a vehicle technician in the army, and until her retirement
three years ago, so was my sister. My mother always said
physically men or women might be different, but inside the
head they're all the same. My mother was the one to convince
dad to let me go 300 miles away for a weekend to go drag
racing when I was 14.She also convinced him to sign off
letting my sister be a mechanic in the Army like her little
brother. My mother was caught doing donuts in a parking
lot after I showed her to use the park brake handle on ice
in her brand new escort.
Yes it is very common to see females drag racing. A local
girl Candy Mitton, runs Pro, S/Pro/ Street/ and snowmobile
classes every second weekend here in the Miramichi. And
yes, all at the same time! She has friends get her stuff
ready each round. But is it mentioned she's female? No,
she's just another hardcore drag racer who happens to be
a woman.
Unfortunately, our "acceptance", if you can call
it that, of women in drag racing has now sold us short in
the media, compared to more "redneck" racing.
Sorry to hear of your loss.
Jim Miller
Mcpl Miller J-1 Inf School 3595
