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Did you ever watch the crowd in the grand stands when the .90 cars come to the line? It is like an intermission time and over half of the crowd gets up and goes to the pits or elsewhere. What would keep the crowd in their seats for these classes? Flat out racing?

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Who cares....I don't race for fans....and obviously since the .90 guys are paying for thier fare share and more NHRA doesn't care either. Personally I think watching FC and TF gets boring after awhile.....they don't even look like the cars they are modeled after. And it gets old watching SS cars do wheelies too.

As far as driving the car the .90 classes have some of the best racers..thats a fact. Most of these other classes you can win with a .060 light if you can drive straight..

Go get a hot dog when the .90 guys come out...I assure you we really don't care if you are watching or not..

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Did you ever watch the crowd in the grand stands when the .90 cars come to the line? It is like an intermission time and over half of the crowd gets up and goes to the pits or elsewhere. What would keep the crowd in their seats for these classes? Flat out racing?

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Did you ever watch the crowd in the grand stands when the .90 cars come to the line? It is like an intermission time and over half of the crowd gets up and goes to the pits or elsewhere. What would keep the crowd in their seats for these classes? Flat out racing?

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The first time I seen it I didn't know where everyone was going. Then I seen a couple throttle stop cars go down the track and I knew why.
They shouldn't allow throttle stops and then the class would be more like a real race.
Bracket racing is what killed the interest in drag racing. Drag racing nationwide was more popular than NASCAR when I was a kid. Bracket racing isn't racing. I agree its fun but not in the spirit of racing where the goal is to run as fast as you can run.

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I give up... ...yep..run what you brung...he with the most money wins. See how many guys you get at the track after awhile...gets boring losing to the fastest car all the time.

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Did you ever watch the crowd in the grand stands when the .90 cars come to the line? It is like an intermission time and over half of the crowd gets up and goes to the pits or elsewhere. What would keep the crowd in their seats for these classes? Flat out racing?

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The first time I seen it I didn't know where everyone was going. Then I seen a couple throttle stop cars go down the track and I knew why.
They shouldn't allow throttle stops and then the class would be more like a real race.
Bracket racing is what killed the interest in drag racing. Drag racing nationwide was more popular than NASCAR when I was a kid. Bracket racing isn't racing. I agree its fun but not in the spirit of racing where the goal is to run as fast as you can run.

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I give up... ...yep..run what you brung...he with the most money wins. See how many guys you get at the track after awhile...gets boring losing to the fastest car all the time.

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Wow some folks just don't get it...and never will.

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I give up... ...yep..run what you brung...he with the most money wins. See how many guys you get at the track after awhile...gets boring losing to the fastest car all the time.

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Was once dream of mine to run super gas. I cant deal with the way it is now. Plus I can afford it Pretty much need a pro stock car and a throttle stop.




I dont feel this is the case to be able to be competative in s/g, while the norm these days (at least in nhra) is to have a s/g car run 160-170 mph on the stop, you don't have to go that fast to win, you have to know what you car is capable of and play the game, practice and seat time make you good, there are plenty of bad a** s/g drivers out there running mid 140's and winning, also .90 racing is alive and well up here in the northeast, we have 2 series for 10.90 and 9.90 that have great payouts, and get very good car counts with some of the toughest racing I have seen, they are the TNT superseries for 10.90 and the western new york 9.90 series, both well run

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Your giving up? and you haven't even started yet? Why don't you race your mini van with a 440 in the bozo class?

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Chilly1 ....WHY do you insist on coming after me ... and then you wind up with EGG ...or something else .... all over your face ?

WHAT does that Caravan project have ANYTHING TO DO with this topic HERE ? ... I have never had a .90 car and this Caravan was not being considered for that ...as far as I was concerned.

And you think that me considering a project like this is a BOZO CLASS ? Are you THIS totally-clueless and completely blind to the history and survival of Chrysler Corp ? .... If it was not for the minivan ... Chrysler would have been dead-and-buried in the late 80's ...

And as far as me actually doing the project ? ... IF I found a chassis shop that would do the TWO 2000 Grand Caravans reasonably(it is not a complex project) .. I would deliver both of them to them before I left from northern MI.

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Here you go....

http://motormaniatv.com/?page_id=529

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DOES anyone remember the GatorNats way back when ....when they FIRST RAN Super Gas ? ...

There were about 120 cars going for a 64 car field ... guess what the BUMP was ?

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I don't remeber NHRA limiting any of the sportsman class entry at any NHRA event, national or divisional races,until well after the entrys in both S.G and S.C would be well above 130 cars per class I can remember S.G at the Winternationals in the late 1980 being way over 120 cars, They may have started limiting the total entrys around 1995 or later to the first 120 cars but they took the entry money at the races for well over that amount of cars. Those classes made the SS, Stock and Comp. eliminator racers look like no one wanted to race those classes anymore
Do you remember the Import series? How about Pro Stock Trucks? I can remember the loss of interest in running Top Fuel by NHRA when multiple events had less than the 16 cars entered in the 16 car field Doess that sound familar

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Here you go....

http://motormaniatv.com/?page_id=529

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It's the throttle stop and the electronics that ruin the class for me.
The first time my 5 year old seen this class I think it took me a day to explain to him why the cars weren't going when the light turned green. He just couldn't understand. He kept asking why aren't they going?
I might run some 10.00 index races. There you got to get the car to run the number without electronic help. It's more of a heads up race. Foot brake only.

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C B ..... Don't remember the year but it was the first year that SG was run at the Gators .... I still have the final qualifying sheet somewhere ....

Qt .... eventually I will be but only if the money is decent on the brackets. I was considering that 27T car for sst and SG but based on what I know now ...I think I will pass on that. No $$$$ in brackets ? ... I might just keep that FED I have just fit test and tune ...

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not sure i understand what you are saying. if you are planning on winning money in any class forget about it.

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C B ..... Don't remember the year but it was the first year that SG was run at the Gators .... I still have the final qualifying sheet somewhere ....

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MF, I remeber that. Was back in '82 or '83. My buddy won the Division 1 S/G title back in '82 and he drove down to the Gators AND drove back as he didn't qualify.

I'm not going to knock it, but I really loved S/G back then. But going 9's in a door car was FAST. And the few door cars that ran S/C, 8.X back then...