E. Pro Stock Bike. I think the class is just fine, good rivalries, colorfull riders, multi brands, and a real chance for some rider from the bottom 8 winning the race. So I think no changes are needed. One thing that might be interesting is if the bikes had no wheelie bars, that will never happen. 2...
D. Pro Stock. Once again, saw this class from day one. Pro Stock in the early days up until 1998 was a fun class to watch. Multi-manufacturers, colorfull drivers and great rivalries. Then a change went down. The cars became cookie cutter in looks. While the racing is the tightest of the Pro classes,...
C. The Funny cars. As one who saw the complete evolution of these cars from Jack Christman's Mercury to todays cars, I believe I have a good knowlege of these cars. My favorite time for these cars was from mid 1966 thru 1975. Not a better time for the class. My all time favorite year was 1967. Still...
B. Top Fuel, thoughts and my views on rules. I have considered Top Fuel as my all time favorite class in any form of racing, I still like it, but not as much. Back in the day it was a "common man" class with great car names, characters driving 'em and variety. Now it's just a select few with corpora...
I am going to give my opinions in a couple of posts. A. My general outlook of todays action. Weak. It seems so predictable the winners of the Pro classes today. We won't see any upsets like days of old, such as Marvin "Who" Graham winning Indy or Sherm Gunn winning FC at Pomona. The days of any car ...
What is your opinion of drag racing today? NHRA, IHRA, ADRL, Nostalgia? What do you like, what do you dont like? Rules, venues, officials and so on. I will vent later, just want to hear what you think.
The first of many installments of "This weekend in Southern California in 1967." LIONS DRAG STRIP "Southern Style Round Robin" Funny Car Eliminator *All cars will run 3 rounds!* *Dougs Headers-Butch Leal-Larry Coleman-Holman & Moody-The Green Seen-Pisano Bros-Vicious Vette* *New Breed-Charlie Allen-...
Been a long time, too long,I am back with smoke coming off the keyboard. Lot's of nostalgia posts in the future since this board is welcoming to those types of subjects.