Quote Originally Posted by NTFDAY View Post
All of you guys have good points and it's the disappearance of the small local strips that will will kill drag racing if it's to be killed. However on the national level NHRA rolled the dice and lost. funny cars more closely resemble slot cars, and you can't come close to buying anything like a Pro Stock car off the show room floor as yo could in the 60's. One thing to remember, if you don't please the fans you lose. And why do you think Nostalgia racing is so popular?
1.) Even our small tracks are gone, closest now is 3.5 hours.
2.) The cars are all the same, slot cars, this was the same problem in NASCAR and at least they've tried some things to break it up.
3.) So true, the fans are the bread & butter.
4.) Nostalgia is big right now because many of us that remember those days have the money available and the desire to relive our youth.. It isn't (imho) that the racing was better, the cars weren't as fast, but the whole evolution of drag racing came right off the streets and it was something anyone could and would do just because it was fun! The people who became the "big names" were just guys like us in a lot of cases, it was easy to relate with them.

For me, the days of tossin the slicks in the trunk and back seat with a toolbox and stuff are over, and I really have no desire to just watch.. with my medicals, they won't let me drive.. And I don't want to run 14's or 15's... If the right kid came along, I could see me having fun with them in a Junior Dragster..