Thread: Sign of the Times ..........

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Originally Posted by Old Coyote

Looking at all four rounds of qualifying for today's NHRA event in Memphis, there were 19 Top Fuelers, 18 Funny Cars, 17 Pro Stocks, and 16 Pro Stock bikes which tried to qualify ........... that's a total of 70 professional entrants for the four classes .......... that's really sad

The 1969 U.S. Nationals had more Top Fuelers than that trying to qualify to get into the field of 32.

It's a sad statement on what drag racing has become

There are links on www.hotrodders.com posted yesterday the entire Memphis racing facility is going to be shut down,NHRA has announced that there will be one less event for 2010.