It's one thing to be impressed by a pro stock car, which I am...very much so. It's another to actually care enough about the class to want to go watch it (or even really follow it) when it's full of multi million dollar operations that I can't relate to in the least.
x2. I couldn't explain it any better for myself.
How can you guys not relate to 8 cylinder, NA, manual with a clutch, rear wheel drive, 4 link cars?
The multi million dollar effort is WHY it's so cool to watch. The normal stuff we all do we can all see every friday night, at every local strip, or in our own garages.
Can you relate to Top Fuel?
Nope. But I can to Super Stock and the faster Stockers.
I used to enjoy Pro Stock and would attend the annual Pro Stock Open at MDIR... it's been years, though. I can tell you the first time was 1977 and Roy Hill won it driving a Hemi Duster. At one time PS was my favorite class of all, but now it really doesn't do much for me.
Never gave a rat's a$$ about the nitro classes, but was friends with John Paris who used to run the Yankee Doodle Dandy alcohol funny car. I kept my Challenger at his shop for a couple of years before my wife & I bought our home in 1999.
SS is for sure a great class, stockers too, and I appreciate that everyone has their own take on all the classes. The thing I just can't see is PS being regarded as boring, or generic, and less interesting than than any other class, when in reality it's still the highest tech in the sport. The refinement required to be competitive in PS is staggering. I'll always feel the reason it is losing ground in popularity is that the complexity either isn't conveyed, or understood by the audience.
Reminds me of being a kid, and people being bored with the later apollo missions. Never once understood the loss of interest in something so overwhelmingly complicated, and fascinating.
