Thread: Heads Up or Bracket? what do you prefer?

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You know, its odd. Why do we have to pick? Why not go both? Bracket for those of us in Beater cars on the track, and of course heads up for Grudges and Street. Enjoy the best of both worlds

i am a drag racer who actually likes to race, tho i prefer the street, i am just as adept at the track and bout tit for tat in experience at same for over 40 years, there is much to be said in favor of heads up or bracket style racin....whatever i am drivin i will race within what i feel is the rides class...heads up, run what ya brung, for those that r in a speed class above mine i still prefer run what ya brung but to race heads up against someone u already know is faster isn't prudent, nor is that a race.....only a win for the quicker car....in that case i prefer a handicap or bracket style race......

Heads up no doubt

I like heads up racing. Nowadays, it seems like the bracket racing is getting to the point where the guy with the most money wins anyway. If you can afford all of the electronic crap to slow the car down to keep from breaking out, you win. But take out the electronic stuff and bracket is ok. I think one thing that I would like to see in the heads up is kind of like NASCAR how they only allow one engine per weekend. that way it remains a bit competitive. I just think it is silly that someone who builds his own engine and blows a seal, and has to sit out because he doesn't have a replacement, while Force can launch a rod through the block and he still runs the next match.

Originally posted by Tommycat
I like heads up racing. Nowadays, it seems like the bracket racing is getting to the point where the guy with the most money wins anyway. If you can afford all of the electronic crap to slow the car down to keep from breaking out, you win. But take out the electronic stuff and bracket is ok. I think one thing that I would like to see in the heads up is kind of like NASCAR how they only allow one engine per weekend. that way it remains a bit competitive. I just think it is silly that someone who builds his own engine and blows a seal, and has to sit out because he doesn't have a replacement, while Force can launch a rod through the block and he still runs the next match.

welcome to the real world.

Didn't Nascar just have a rule change this year about qualifying engines having to be the engine that starts the race- I think so.

Originally posted by hambiskit
Didn't Nascar just have a rule change this year about qualifying engines having to be the engine that starts the race- I think so.

Yup. (Not sure if that started this year) but if they qualify, then change engines they still qualify but have to start @ the back of the pack.

Originally posted by lt1s10
welcome to the real world.

not yet, thinking about it, good idea though.

i'm new to it but i like heads up. my car is slow and i only run test and tune and i don't mind to lose to a faster car. i think it'll be a long time before i can cut a very low light all the time. the bracket racers have all the electronic stuff at our track. my friend even has a weather station setup in his rv for running his car. he's not happy if he pulls a .504 light.

I think when I first started to go to the drags they must have been using flags,( not sure) then lights,when classes were determined by weight and horsepower. I don't mind bracket racing but dont understand the sport of it when you have enough electronics to do most of the work for you.When I had my Vega,no electronics and dialed a 10:80 and ran a 10:81 or 82 it felt good . Where is the sport in the electronics doing it for you? I've never been there so I dont know.

I'm headed for the Outlaw 10.5 ranks this season, so it will be heads up all the way to the finish line. YAAHOOO!!

All that electronic crap seems like it would be boring since it does it all for you...

Pro60Chevy, did you see my post I made for you? I have no internet so can only come on when I am in the office so I don't and won't be on for another week to three weeks until I get the net back and when I do have it back I will have it for a couple weeks then won't be on again for another 3 weeks. Let me know if you read it though man.

Originally posted by FMXhellraiser
Pro60Chevy, did you see my post I made for you? I have no internet so can only come on when I am in the office so I don't and won't be on for another week to three weeks until I get the net back and when I do have it back I will have it for a couple weeks then won't be on again for another 3 weeks. Let me know if you read it though man.

I must of missed it. I'll look around.

Most fun I ever had racing was the midnight drags, 3 miles outside of town, out on Cooneys flats. Illegal as hell, 2 cars lined up side by side, quarter mile layed out in white paint across the highway, and a guy about 200 feet out in the middle of the road----points at car on right---points at car on left, throws both hands up and runs for his life to the side of the road. If you see headlights coming the other way, a quick slow down, pull into the correct lane, pray its not the cops.----all the hotrodders from town parked on the sides of the road watching the showdown, ready to split down the nearest sideroad if red lights started flashin. I don't know if it was really as great as my memories make it, or if its just that I was young (19 yrs. old in '65). I went on to sanctioned drag racing at the eastern Ontario drags, even ran the dragster for a short time, but nothing got my blood racing like those old side by side midnight drags. I never could get any enjoyment out of bracket racing---whole idea seemed kind of foolish to me.