Yup, the Sportsman Racers IMO are still where it's at!!!! I would dearly love to run Pro Stock, but age and the checkbook both make it an unrealistic goal... Stock and Super Stock has gotten quite spendy over the years, but still affordable with a couple good sponsors and fairly deep pockets..... I've settled on the "Super" classes with the 7.90, 8.90, and 9.90 breakouts depending on the class.... My own car is usually easy to pick out of the crowd, I'm the idiot running the 5 speed against all those 'glides!!!!! Most tracks around here run a "Quick Eight" deal also. The quickest 8 cars from time trials are asked if they want to run, then the keep going down from the original 8 to make the field and everybody runs on a dial in.... Lots of fun. Heck, at the 2 day events, I like to get in a bit of first night extra action running a Gamblers Race, again a breakout deal. Everybody bad mouths the break outs, but if it wasn't for them it will usually come down to a case of the biggest checkbook wins.....

Class racing is great fun, but IMO the rules are a bit too tight to allow much creativity. Bracket racing or any class with a breakout rule is a matter of knowing your car very well, how it reacts to changing track and weather conditions, and remembering to race the track and not the guy in the other lane. Sure do wish I could afford to run the heads up Pro classes, just not in the cards I guess.....