Thread: Things That Ruined Drag Racing!

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I think my the fun for me stopped when thay went to bracket racing.
I loved the heads up racing before the tree , yes a real flagman.
That is when I got onto oval track racing , untill I ran out of money,
so now I am back in to Hot Rods

Originally Posted by hawk56

I think my the fun for me stopped when thay went to bracket racing.
I loved the heads up racing before the tree , yes a real flagman.
That is when I got onto oval track racing , untill I ran out of money,
so now I am back in to Hot Rods

EXACTLY! - right to being priced out of stock cars and back to Hotrods, We have a hobby six class here that is very reasonable to race but by the time it came along I was too OLD - and broken up from motorcycles

Originally Posted by Dgas56

EXACTLY! - right to being priced out of stock cars and back to Hotrods, We have a hobby six class here that is very reasonable to race but by the time it came along I was too OLD - and broken up from motorcycles

You don't have to be a millionaire to run a bracket car, even out here in the sticks we have non-electronic classes. Everything comes down to being consistent and great reaction times. Our local non-electronic class bracket winner last year probably doesn't have 10K in his car and won all 5 non electronic events last summer.... Talked to him last week, his major work for the winter will be a new set of valve springs, freshen the engine, and he's ready..... Even won a couple of the events that were open to the delay box cars, and (I think) 4 of the Saturday night Gambler's races.... Drag racing has changed, granted, especially in the higher classes. But there is still a place and a class for everybody to race.. The Tree does not know the difference between a $60,000 car and a $6,000 car.

The one thing about the technology and the big bucks cars, is that eventually a lot of it filters down to street machines and Hot Rods.... Drag Racing is still alive and doing fine around here. In our little town of 5,000 people there are 5 new cars being built this winter, and none of these guys are millionaires......

computer supported racecars.

The hobby class I was refering too is a stock car dirt track class .The thing about bracket racing is anyone can get into it at almost any level. I just hate hitting my brakes to win, doesn't feel right, then you throw in all the electro stuff and safety overkill to boost the cost + support their sponsor's and I really begin to hate it , I'd rather watch the nostalgia cars and take care of my own old racing Jones at the weekend street races occasionally, We don't have all that legal Cr_p here if your caught, , plus no money ,no trophy's, no 20 grand + sub 12 sec super High Perf cars / pro street semi race cars either. Its all just good ol boy fun. nobody gets shot, nobody gets run off the road, heck, nobody even argues as we all know each other and WORK for our cars so more often than not we work on each other's cars. the odd a--h-le gets pushed out in a hurry and they don't come back. a benefit of country living- lots of ROOM w strt flat roads and no $80 a day track fee's. For a time the local law let us use the old airport runway ,all we needed was a ambulance standing by , (the driver was one of us), It has since been made into a park,so we went out in the country on Friday nights.