LOL. If you can't beat them, join them. People love smokey burn-outs.


http://www.competitionplus.com/drag-racing/news/nhra-to-stage-pro-stock-burnout-contest-indy

Did NHRA end up buying Ringling and Barnum and Bailey circus after all
Anything to make a $ and help fill the stands, correct

If they'd try a little harder at filling the pits, the stands will fill themselves.

Maybe this a contest the Dodges can be competitive in. lol

good grief

I'd rather watch a burnout contest than a
Chevy prostock race.. with 1 Mopar

Naaaah... the NHRA will mandate a lower RPM limit during the burnout contest that'll keep The Lone Mopar from being able to keep the tires spinning fast enough.

I've stated for a number of years that NHRA will end up the way of the monster trucks. A private firm will buy the National Event portion of the show where they own the cars and pay the crews. Drivers will be personalities with rivalries abound. NHRA will maintain control on a divisional/ local level as the sanctioning body.

In this particular case, I'm all for it! If this goes well, a wheelie contest for height and distance to follow.

Not all people.

Sounds to me like maybe they were trying to give the fans another opportunity to head to the "Nitro Mall" without missing anything "good".

When the stands are still empty during the burnout contest, nhra will have to resort to stripper poles on starting line, or maybe tanner gray and Erica in a steel cage death match. (Bet on Erica.)
Can greg anderson Juggle ?

Does it get any dumber,,,,,oh h*ll done lost my head again,,,,forgot boom box audio systems and air suspension jumping jack contests,,,not to mention let's blow an engine loud exhaust run-offs.

I've only been to the NHRA events at Norwalk so; I have nothing else to compare it to but, both times I went, it was azzez to elbows with people. Is the attendance really that low at other NHRA events?

Next is dry hops for the FC class.

seen one burnout ya seen em all

And they give me a headache.

A couple- three weeks ago a friend of mine was telling me about something he read about spectators attending sporting events. He said that (as we all know) the NHRA and NASCAR spectator attendance are very low but also the sporting events like baseball were off too- but what was interesting was that monster truck events were very high in attendance -off the charts??
He also said the article was referring to the average age of the attendees of the events -NASCAR & NHRA have increased to an average 55 plus as well as the baseball attendees have done the same. It showed the average for the monster truck events were much lower say 25 - 35 average age??

I'm not sure about the exact numbers but I think you all get the idea.

Maybe the public is out growing some of these events and a new era of sporting attendees (younger) are out there attending these newer(different)events.

is monster trucks a sport?? i always thought it was more like pro rasslin