Thread: Strange Engineering & Al-Anabi Racing

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I wondered what that glow on the horizon was................the internet ablaze with blather...........now, me included.

To some degree I agree with the attached author, and I'm sure he has more to say but had to hit what he thought was most important in the space he had. This is just the latest sign of what we've been seeing for several years. Yeah, the focus of many was lost until the Force stuff started to hit the fan, but other biggies suffered the same sponsor flight, just with a bit less fanfare. What many are now starting to realize is they are in a thinning forest and just didn't realize it because they didn't pay enough attention. NASCAR might well be heading that way too with the loss of Sprint at the end of their contract.

The most significant mistake I think some of our fellow travelers make is to think something like, "Good, big money has ruined the sport, now we can get back to just like it used to be. NHRA is Satan incarnate." Ain't gonna happen. Like the current model or not, the pro series product is what kept the whole show (sportsman classes included) afloat. Sure, there will always be some form of drag racing in the future (after all, our ancestors did it with horses), but certainly not like recent years and never again like what some see as the "golden age".