I'll be competing at the event in Denver in August. They open it up to cars running 12.99 and faster but I don't think I've ever seen them pick a group of cars running slower than 10.9's I expect to be running 11.6's this year but I'm debating whether to add the juice to get into the 10's... of course that will be the day they run the 11.6 cars

As for the show... it definitely raises awareness and gets a bit more exposure to the "sport" of drag racing but I think of it more as a novelty. At any rate, the prospects for a chance at $10000+ was good enough to get me in there Never cared much for the original "Pinks" with the car length negotiations and sandbagging.

^^^Jim - yes the misconceptions are rampant... my wife mentioned to a colleague I was a drag racer and her immediate thought went to the rice burning street racers which had recently killed a few people downtown

-Chris