KEEP IT UP
Jeff, very nice. Keep up the great work. I enjoy reading your commentary more than you will ever know.
Earl Helm
Director Customer Service
& Technical Service
And Bottom Bulb Racer
BUT IS BURK NAUGHTY OR NICE?
Never thought the Burkster would sell out to Na-Ra. Hey Santa, get this guy a spine.
Jon T. Hoffman
Woodstock, Illinois
THE WHITES OF HIS EYES
Just wondering, is anybody else tired of drivers wearing sun glasses when they do interviews? I would like to see driver's eyes, not sun glasses.
Jeff Kammes
Dekalb, Illinois
REMEMBER WHEN?
Just Wondering... Since the biggest draw at NHRA National events are the Nitro Cars why not implement Nostalgia Dragsters and Nostalgia Funny Cars to run in the Sportsman Ranks to help fill the stands at the Sportsman events.
If they keep the rules as they are now, 6:71's, 1 Fuel pump, 1 Mag, etc, the only real difference in cost to running Nitro cars in the Sportsman ranks vs. Alcohol cars is the cost of the fuel. I'll bet you'd get an awful lot of people like myself, 50 years old with kids grown and out of the house, that would love to field this type of race car. It would also give us something exciting to watch between the semi final and final rounds of the Pro cars vs. the idiots shooting T-shirts into the crowd.
Mark Wirth, Sr.
Orland Park, Illinois
GIMME THE SKINNY
Hey Jeff, just wondering why NHRA created the "AA" Stock class. Are there cars out there with a lower HP to weight that need the class or what? Just curious if you knew. Shades of 1964 with the Galaxie 427s. I'm showing my age!
Skip Hill
Souderton, Pennsylvania
GARLITS WAS THE FIRST TO 300MPH???
Dear Editor: In the last issue of Hot Rod Magazine, Kenny Bernstein was yet again listed in the Top-100 as the first in drag racing to break the 300 mph barrier in a Top Fuel car years ago. This is incorrect - yet again. In fact, Don Garlits was the first to break the 300 mph barrier shortly before Bernstein.
This is a recorded fact, yet it is continually ignored, not only by NHRA promotions and Bernstein's self-promotions, but by all the press.
The original disregard for Garlits' achievement was that when Garlits broke the mark, the clocks at that track had not been verified beforehand. In fact they were. What they weren't, were at an NHRA track. At the time Garlits was feuding with NHRA over their payout monies to racers (sound familiarly current regarding NHRA’s miserly payouts?). All of us racing back then knew this was payback against Garlits. At Gainesville weeks later, where Bernstein went 300, numerous racers at that event believed those clocks were suspect according to their OWN heightened speed performances that day.
Why is this Bernstein myth still perpetuated today by ALL the media? What I state above has been known for a long time to be factually correct. Does this mean that records can only be set at NHRA tracks to be considered valid? So all old AHRA and current IHRA records are invalid nationally and internationally?
Can this not be FINALLY clarified to give credit where it is rightfully due with Garlits for being first to break 300 mph in drag racing, and give Bernstein credit for his other wonderful champion exploits?
Thanks for listening,
Ken Tesoriere
Tucson, Arizona
Ed note: Anybody out there that has any proof or knowledge of this gentleman’s claim about this, please contact us.
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