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| THE NEXT 10 YEARS | Login/Join |
DRR S/Pro |
I'm right up there with Fern. I've slowed down a lot in the past year cause not taking care of myself earlier is catchingup to me. I wanted to sell the race car but my son said now way so I guess that ain't going to happen. I made my last investment to it last year with a complete back half and a new certified cage. It's all going to be on him now. I've got good scotch and steaks to spend my money on. | |||
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you mean there is such thing as good Scotch? Bourbon I could see.LOL America home of free. Brought to you by 2nd amendment. | |||
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Bender page at 167 pages. Got a lot of catching up to do to get to 667 of Mike Hawks good morning thread  | |||
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| DRR Sportsman |
I’ve been hearing this since the 70”s. Racing will be just fine | |||
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I race Sportsman (footbrake) at my local NHRA track. $35 entry, $15 buy back. I honestly wouldn’t care if the purse was zero. I just like racing. I guess something must be wrong with me. You’re telling us about multiple homes and properties, expensive classic cars, and motor coaches, but you can’t race unless the payout suits you? Mike | |||
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JW Black and sometimes Blue. A good 1/2"-2" ribeye medium rare. Every night my dog and I take a ride around the neighbor hood in our UTV with a scotch in the cup holder. He likes to visit the neighbors and I like to look at their wives. LOL | |||
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| DRR Trophy |
the next 10 years won't be good for drag racing, many will be retiring either on their own terms or their ticket will have been punched in the pro ranks, sportsman and bracket racers. | |||
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| DRR Top Comp |
WHO? America home of free. Brought to you by 2nd amendment. | |||
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| DRR Sportsman |
Hawks "good morning "thread, Bender and weather underground are safe. But I can see dwindling car counts and interest in cars in general, you can't help but wonder what 10 year will do to the sport. Harley Davidson is facing the same fate, a big percentage of the die hard lovers are dying or can't ride. Both racing and HD will be there but in what form ? | |||
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| DRR Top Comp |
Sly Fox if I could race for that I would be happy as a clam but nothing close to that around here----I used to race for trophies and was there every week. Around here cars are parked everywhere not racing for whatever reason. I don't think its the purse as much as it is to double entries, buybacks, and cut purses because of unrealistic car count minimums. Even footbrake has gone to no box and after you beat all of the bottom bulbers you got to jump in with the Top cars to try to get a real purse. The cars are around but not at the track. | |||
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DRR S/Pro |
I'm sure that will never happen...………..I hope  272" Spitzer 540 Chevy The Blower Shop XR1 FTI XPM Series Converter FTI Level 6 Powerglide 3.69@199 .916 60' 2017 Bradenton Heads Up Madness Open Outlaw Champ 2018 PDRA T/D #5 2019 PDRA T/D #2 2020 Retired From T/D Competition.... 2020 Bradenton NMCA Hemi Shootout Winner 2021 getting back into bracket racing with a Gen3 Hemi powered 87 Cutlass. | |||
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| DRR S/Pro |
They all take a backseat to Danny Son's "What drag racing needs more of" thread at 701 pages and over 46 million (!) views 272" Spitzer 540 Chevy The Blower Shop XR1 FTI XPM Series Converter FTI Level 6 Powerglide 3.69@199 .916 60' 2017 Bradenton Heads Up Madness Open Outlaw Champ 2018 PDRA T/D #5 2019 PDRA T/D #2 2020 Retired From T/D Competition.... 2020 Bradenton NMCA Hemi Shootout Winner 2021 getting back into bracket racing with a Gen3 Hemi powered 87 Cutlass. | |||
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| DRR Pro |
I'm starting to think this way. Someone posted on here a while back, I'm sick of dragging my shyt 500 miles down the road to lose by 1 thou. I know it's luck but my luck's been shyt for a couple seasons now......  JB | |||
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DRR Trophy |
The Street Outlaw/No Prep explosion has helped drag racing as a whole over the last few years. Interest is up, no question. The younger people that want to get into the sport will quickly realize that building a 3.70 200mph door slammer on radials isn't cheap may make their way over to the bracket racing side of things. The sport is growing the last few years that is for sure. Hopefully it keeps growing. | |||
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| DRR Pro |
I’m with you on that stuff. Mike | |||
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| DRR Trophy |
At 64 yrs old I think i just drove my last drag race a couple weeks ago , Don't know what to do with the car . I could put it back on the street with a different motor , but probably would not drive it. I was tired of car shows 15 yrs. ago which is why i started drag racing . | |||
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| DRR Sportsman |
I'll be 63 in a few weeks and I need a footbrake car. When do you want me to pick it up? I'm in Arizona. By the way I've been to 3 bracket races this year but I'm at the track more than ever. I work in pit control at NHRA national events. 14 so far and 3 division races. Sure, I can't do it like I used to but I don't want to miss the fun. I'm not in a bad mood, I just look that way......... | |||
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| DRR Top Comp |
Wasting your time with foot brake---it is quickly being replaced by no box and then pushing that over into top after you win on the bottom----soon just be one class like the world famous Capitol Raceway in MD | |||
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| DRR Trophy |
What is the difference between no-box and foot brake ? Would that be having a transbrake ? | |||
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| DRR Pro |
But Capitol reversed that this year, right Fern? Seems that way from looking at their website. Take care. Tom Worthington If it seems that bracket racing has gotten too expensive for you, maybe you are just doing it wrong. | |||
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