It is, but the trucks all have names, wild paint jobs, most of the drivers have some character and there is a lot of action. My grandson is four and loves monster trucks.

They should make it interesting and do fire burn-outs! What next NHRA a wheelie contest - I would think the pro-stock teams would pass on this kind of stuff - only tears up the equipment.

I read this yesterday.
Valve springs anyone?

I lit a fire burnout for Big Daddy once. What people failed to tell me was what was going to happen when I lit it. I was young. Wasn't thinking. I was excited. Well, when I lit it Bigs did the obvious thing and floored it. My hands were outstreached to light the fire. My fingers weren't in my ears and it was very painful.

I agree with a couple of posts above. Parents are taking their kids to monster trucks because it's an "extreme" sport that's relatable. Truck names, driver personalities, huge air, back flips, additionally, it can be held indoors during the winter months and it's an entertaining recipie.

Burn outs do nothing for me, so doesn't interest me at all.

Next they will pay drivers to wreck, because that's what people like to see.

NHRA looks desperate...

Sorry, wasn't paying attention.

I have been to BIR nationals 2 times, 2 weeks ago and in the mid 90's, the crowd in the pits was close to what I remember but the stands had a lot of empty seats to choose from.

I've been to Norwalk for both nhra and ihra events. Norwalk draws crowds for most any event it has. Back in the ihra days, the stands were still packed for the ihra mountain motor prostocks.
Nhra prostock is called hot dog time and bathroom break time.

They still have a pathetic "burn out contest" at our Mopar Nats, what a waste of time when we could be having more track time. As said, once you've seen 1, you've seen them all at the track.

I remember when I was running my old 440 '69 Cuda and we had a TV channel filming the meet in 1990, I did an extended pro-mod type roller for a bit of show but stopped before the beams....could've sat there at 5k rpm smokin 'em up the whole length of the track...it achieves nothing and wastes everything.

I gotta admit that watching Pro Stock even with big burnouts makes me wanna

They had a burn-out contest at Keystone this year during a street event and used the regular burn-out pad. Next thing you know it will have ruts in it and ruin our slicks. Put a 2 inch steel plate out in a field and let the kiddies have a good time.

wait till a ps hits the wall

The dumbest thing I've seen in recent years was a starting line burn-down by a couple of Pro Stockers...when the cameras panned to the stands many of the spectators were screaming encouragement and fist-pumping the air. Getting that excited about a burn-down? Gimme a break.

In an existing ridiculously expensive class lets just add burning seriously expensive tires to the mix....

SMDH

Honestly I think it is pretty cool, i know my almost 4 year old boy would LOVE it. Getting the young people involved is what will keep this sport going. It won't kill you old geezers to sit through a few long burnouts, sit back and listen to the sounds of naturally aspirated horsepower, it won't be long before its gone from the pro-classes at this rate.

Look at the RICER events!! Packed and plenty of FEMALES!!

the ricer events are less about the RACE CARS and more about the party.

It's a rave w/ some cars parked around.

Silly me. All these years I believed the explanation given by the announcers that the burnout was a critical procedure calculated to bring the tires, clutch, and engine all to the correct temp by the time the cars are ready to go. I never once concidered that it's true purpose was to entertain the 4 year olds and the adults that act like 4 year olds. When will they bring back BIG WHEEL races between rounds? Oh, I know. How about if the loosing car in prostock gets run over by a monster truck. Yea, i'd pay extra to see that.

Maybe the winner in each pro class should turn around, drive back to the 330 and do Nascar style donuts.