Re: The hits to Pro Stock Camaro keep coming.
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11/18/18 06:58 PM
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What-ever but in index racing the first to the stripe doesn't always win. Not if he runs UNDER the index. If you want to call yourself a heads-up racer to your buddies go right ahead BUT in real life you are an index racer. Kinda like bracket racer only someone else is setting your dial. ![iagree iagree](/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/custom/iagree.gif) To the spectators it "appears" heads up tho. Kevin “Spectators?” You have them at your track...?
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Re: The hits to Pro Stock Camaro keep coming.
[Re: CMcAllister]
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11/18/18 07:23 PM
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Well let's see. First sentence of the Super Gas section of the NHRA rulebook. "Super Gas cars race on a 9.900 standard (that's the index) using a heads-up, .4-second Pro Tree." I don't make this stuff up. And heads up, pro tree, .90 racing is fun. Not easy, but fun. The guy who wrote the rule book isn't a racer. It's heads up when two cars leave on the same light and the guy who gets there first, wins. That's a heads up race.
Just because you think it won't make it true. Horsepower is KING. To dispute this is stupid. C. Alston
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Re: The hits to Pro Stock Camaro keep coming.
[Re: CMcAllister]
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11/18/18 08:17 PM
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Don’t read anything past the heads up type tree and you got it. I have nothing against it but a heads up tree isn’t heads up Racing. Lite flashes smash the loud pedal and first one to the line wins. There ain’t no looking over your shoulder in heads up Racing.
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Re: The hits to Pro Stock Camaro keep coming.
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11/20/18 02:35 AM
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irregardless back to the original statement, let the pro stock camaro run its course,people will get tired of it and ratings will plunge, support the true sportsmen, grass roots racers, we are the ones that keep this sport alive at our local tracks, now Dave Rieff is leaving NHRA, left with Tony, really? another reason not to watch!!
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Re: The hits to Pro Stock Camaro keep coming.
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11/20/18 08:12 AM
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irregardless back to the original statement, let the pro stock camaro run its course,people will get tired of it and ratings will plunge, support the true sportsmen, grass roots racers, we are the ones that keep this sport alive at our local tracks, now Dave Rieff is leaving NHRA, left with Tony, really? another reason not to watch!! Brian Lohnes will do an outstanding job, Tony, not so much.
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Re: The hits to Pro Stock Camaro keep coming.
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11/20/18 12:22 PM
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I have to admit I haven't watched NHRA Drag racing on TV all year especially NHRAs version of IROC were all the cars are the same only different colors which is what Pro Stock is now. I did watch the World Finals to see if my friend was on the starting line as he was crewing on a N.J. Based Pro Stock team. On the subject of TV did anyone catch the segment of " Madam Secretary" filmed at Raceway Park? Showing a Stock car at a former drag strip. Kind of opened up some old wounds for me. Wrong on two accounts, they didn't race Stock cars there and it's no longer a car racing facility.
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Re: The hits to Pro Stock Camaro keep coming.
[Re: CMcAllister]
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11/21/18 03:35 PM
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NHRA doesn't destroy anything. People with big egos and big wallets coming in and spending millions to make hundreds are what screws it up. Don't want to spend it? Go buy a lower class Stocker. Plenty of those for sale, cheap. Exactly. Great observation.
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