Max Maniac, ya hit the nail right on the head! I mean right on the head. If NSS goes to the 1/8, well, that would be tough to stay with it.

I would comment more, but, I wanna save my keyboard keys........

I've race on both length tracks, the local track is 1/8 mile and the three other tracks here in Oregon are 1/4 mile. All the race cars I've raced where in high gear before the 1/8 mile on 1/4 mile tracks so I'm done shifting and waiting for the finish line to get to me so I can drive it the way I want to, on the brakes or bopping the throttle. The 1/8 mile tracks don't give me as much time to look and decide what to do to win
Both lengths are enjoyable, neither one is better than the other in my opinion

To me racing 1/8 is half track. Didnt like fuel cars going to 1000 foot, dont like the sport of drag racing being reinvented to make it not 1/4.
I bet if fans were polled, 90+% would prefer the faster speeds of 1/4 mile

I have run both and had fun.Here on Long Island we used to have 2 QM tracks and one 1/8 mile.Now the closest track is 80 miles away.I would take anything that is close. 5s in the 1/8 @ 120 is a hoot!

In high school, our 12 second 1/4 street cars were not fun in the 1/8 now 9 second 1/4 street cars are a blast in the 1/8 imo.

While I am not that familiar with Norwalk, I am familiar with IRP or Lucas Oil or whatever they're calling it now.You shut down after the 1/8 and you can't get off the track and out of the way for another 40 miles.The ET ticket booth is still down at the end where it always was. Seems to take forever.

Yall need faster cars.
4.80's at 150 is a blast.

I like 1/4 mile.
I like 1/8 mile.
A sub 10 sec (1/4 mile) car would likely not be much fun to race at an 1/8 mile track for me.
1/8 mile guys generally have their act together with the chassis.

I know the sport has changed, speaking for myself after almost 50 years of doing this, I'd rather eat a bowl of ground glass than run half a drag race. That's OK for those who like it, but I sure don't.

I think there is a different mindset today, when I started the deal was to get a cool car and learn how to race it, make it consistent, and go kind of fast. Now, it seems the mindset is that the car is a 'tool', just something to use and go gambling with it. If a Hyandi is a better tool, then we'll get that. Now, I realize most bracket guys don't care about drawing spectators, and they don't. I mean watching a bunch of look alike dragsters race 8th mile is as boring as watching paint dry.

I find it ironic at Keystone, my home track, during the FC Nationals this year (great event, by the way), the S/Pro guys shut off at the 8th because they have a hard time getting stopped, but the FC guys ran right behind them and went 200 in the quarter and got stopped just fine. That irony struck me, but whatever.

I'm not too worried about NSS, which is what I run, (we run a Nostalgia program monthly at Keystone), because not many NSS racers run the local brackets anyway. Most are like Russ and myself, not remotely interested in 8th mile. To us, it's still half a drag race. As long as our programs are not touched, I really don't care.

But, I do think that if the bracket guys still continue to demand specialized cars and rules specifically to fit their venue, it will only be a matter of time before they run out of takers. So, for what it's worth, that's my thought. But, I'm an old dinosaur, so what do I know?

Personally I like 1/8 mile racing, I think it's more challenging to drive the stripe. Everything happens faster. I like 1/4 mile too but it wasn't as exciting to me. The last time I ran the 1/4 my dart was running 11.60's, once I passed the 1/8 it was like a Sunday afternoon drive until I hit the stripe. My Dart should run low 10's now so it may be a little more fun.

There is a lot more than brackets that run the 1/8 around here, there are many heads up races running .400 or .500 pro tree depending on the class. Best of all these races are door cars. IMO if it's not exciting to see a door car (non promod) running 200 or more mph in the 1/8 hoe the he!! can you get excited about going 130 in the 1/4.

I'd race 330' if it was all that there was.

I am never going to make a living drag racing. Neither are 99% of the members on here.
I enjoy putting the car in high gear and racing higher speed than 1/8 mile affords a typical car most of us have.
I made the point above..... i bet if asked, 90% of fans would rather see any class run 1/4 than 1/8. Especially if whatever event thats happening is run at a 1/4 mile facility.
Glad i am old, and have gotten to race for 40 odd years 98% of the time on the 1/4.
Dont think i have ever in my life had a drag racing fan, casual guy at a car show, etc. etc ever ask me what my car runs in the 1/8 mile. The general population has no thought of anything but 1/4.
When they advertised the new Demon, not one breath about what it runs in the 1/8..... just the 9.60's in the 1/4.
Its sad to see the true intention of the sport get eaten up, by as one poster said, just a tool to do a job.

From what I've seen there isn't much stripe driving in the 1/8. Most take a 6.50 car with big tires and a brake and runs dead on with a .00x. Doesn't take much to dial dead on in the 1/8. Personally it bores me.
Doug

Sorry to say I quit drag racing when they wanted me to race a clock rather than my buddy down the street.

Well 1/8 mile hasn't hit the UK strips yet, however 1/4 mile just prolongs the agony of watching nothing but brkt/index racing, racing clocks is not what the sport was/is about in my opinion, all we have left that resembles any form of "racing" is CE and PM with TF once/twice a year. The bike classes put on a better show!

Here we go again.

How many fans show up for a PDRA show not many and that is the best 1/8 mile racing going I’d rather stay home and go for a motorcycle ride then race 1/8 mile when it’s no faster of a show the 1/4 mile you still have do go to the end of the track to turn off

Make the trip to South Georgia or Holly Springs for any of the big heads up racing and report back on the crowd and the quality of racing.

[i]Make the trip to South Georgia or Holly Springs for any of the big heads up racing and report back on the crowd and the quality of racing.

Gotta go with that, 1/8 mile HU is cool its not so much the distance with me, but the type of racing.