Thread: NHRA points system

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The point at which I gave up "the dream" of being a pro racer, was when I realized that 2-3 motivated guys were no longer enough to field a pro car. That would have been in the early seventies. I am glad that I had another "passion" to follow, but I am still sad about the decision that I was not going to be able to race those fabulous cars. (That's why you have never heard of me.) LOL! :-)

Today, I am also disenchanted with "cookie cutter" racecars. I miss the competition between different brand engines, and bodies. I don't like cars that look like a bottle or box of product, and I could list a few more gripes.

The one thing that has kept me interested at all, is the fact that television coverage has helped us come to know the competitors. I love to see the underdog win, and I literally cheer when certain spoiled, whiney, and egotistic personalities get "skunked".

I know that nothing ever stays the same, and I truely am happy that the sport I fell in love with is doing quite well...even if it is becoming inhabited by 4 cylinders with nitrous and a hairdryer. (Buddy Ingersoll is smiling somewhere.) :-)