Originally posted by lt1s10
heads up the money or whos cheating the most win most of the time. with bracket it gives the under dog a chance to win some times.
I agree, it is more of a bragging rights thing around here. Blowers, nitrous and 25000 dollar engines, 1500 dollar trannys and three to four bottle fills of silly gas at 45.00 a fill for a few passes a night. I love to watch them and draws big crowds to the track. But as most race engines like that goes, one wrong shot of the nos, and another engine is sent to its grave. They must have deeper pockets than me, cause they are back in a short time running just as fast. These are mostly non sponsored cars, and some 5.0 cars are running low 5's in the 1/8th at around 130 or so.

Went to Memphis for the national event a few weeks back and saw a real boring class. Super stock and super gas cars, they run an index type race which is like heads up but they must stay under a set et like 9.50 seconds in the quarter mile. These cars are doing wheel stands at launch and then lift off the throttle for three hundred feet and then stab it again. Almost all ended up running the index of9.50 with a hundreth or two over. Don't like it at all, when that car nails the throttle and stands her up, I would rather see the whole under power run. Forgot to mention that they really don't lift off the throttle, it is controlled by a throttle stop device that is rpm activated and then deactivated again at a second rpm setting to keep the car under or at the 9.50 index. Just like beer, one guy likes one brand and another guy likes his brand. Give me basic home brew and the world is right again for me.