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A SUGGESTION
Why are Pro Stock and Pro Mod not run on a divisional level like Top Sportsman? Wouldn't this give under-funded teams or non-sponsored teams a chance to race and gain exposure? (Maybe attract a big dollar sponsor or gain the experience to set up.) The "big" teams would not travel to a divisional event, but yet teams that would not stand a chance of making a field at the National event level would jump at the opportunity to compete.
Does this make sense as a way of creating a "minor" league for drag racing's professional categories? There are a lot of Pro Mod teams that already run 1/8-mile races on most of these tracks, so why not give them a class on the divisional level and quite possibly attract more fans to the stands? Could you not try things like allowing turbos or imports before trying it on a National event level?
Maybe I am way off base...but it is food for thought.
Thomas
North Carolina
ANOTHER SUGGESTION FOR THE GO-SLOW POLICE
Seems to me that the NHRA go-slow guru, Ray Alley, has made a mess of things AGAIN (I bet the fuel crew chiefs just love to hear from him).
Here is an IDEA, how about we just shorten the race track to say 1,000 feet, remove ALL of the seemingly idiotic restrictions, (rpm controls, and all the other plain STUPID attempts) to slow these cars down, and let them run at 90% UNRESTRICTED (like they were supposed to in the first place).
Speeds would be around 300 mph, flames would be high, aluminum sacrifice would be minimal, the track would have an additional 320 feet of stopping distance, the fans wouldn't feel cheated, the race would take less time, coverage would therefore increase, and all would be well again (as it should be).
Crew chiefs could then get back to the business of going fast instead of finding ways (expensive) of circumventing the seemingly never ending vendetta that the go-slow guys have implemented over the last few years. (No names please).
Then these so-called keepers of the faith could go back to gouging the paying participants and the paying fans with their $4.00 snow cones and $30.00 t-shirts.
Another course of action is to stink up the show so badly that people would be happy to pay an EXIT fee just to leave and go home; either way as ALWAYS, NHRA comes out on top, and that, my friend, is "JUST THE WAY IT IS."(Should be NHRA's new slogan.)
After 40-some years of watching organized drag racing EVOLVE, it is painful now to just sit here and watch it DISOLVE.
The answers are simple, but the courses of action to correct the problems have been left up to the inept, and therefore we will never have any resolution, following that path.
I propose that a Kenny Bernstein, or an Austin Coil be a part of the decision-making process, after all these are truly the leaders that we want this sport to rely on for fairness and direction.
I know that NHRA is not a democracy, but do they have to be dictators AND tyrants? Sure hope not, because the money generator known as the fan eventually will lose interest and go watch NASCAR or wrestling, on the cheap.
As always this is just my opinion in a free thinking society.
Gene Wagner
Boca Raton, FL