Okay I'm as addicted to drag racing as the next guy, but what exactly is wrong with bikini contests? Wouldn't that be a nicer down time filler than the Powerade/Geico fruit loops? The sport compact folks have some pretty darn interesting machinery as well.

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There are no H or I dragsters as those who tend to run Comp Eliminator are some of the sharpest minds about technology and the way rules really work. CIC comes into play and so does thew very high cost of R & D to start from a clean sheet in racing. The majority of sport compact racers have never raced where rules are such as Comp Elimintaor has and have always had a real free reign on rules and heads up racing. Very few headsup racers will ever compete in Comp due to the complexity of the Eliminator and the lack of headsup racing. I want to run an I or H dragster but with a two valve motor and the rules allow for only 4 valve motors.
Guess I'll stick to Stock and Superstock with 2.3l Turbo Ford Tbird and go from there. Maybe one day the rules will get inline enoguh to get me to consider racing in Comp.

well, i, as well as many others i'm sure, spent a lot of my childhood at the racetrack. i know my father wouldn't have taken me to the cajun nats year after year to see bikini contests. i would have missed out on a lot of great memories at the drag strip.

chris, i'm glad to hear your side of the story. it's good that there were people in that series fighting to keep racing about racing.

I'd prefer not to mention the manufacturer because who was providing support then and who is now are different and I don't want past mistakes to reflect on current management.

Go Top Dragster racing, Ron. Top Dragster and Top Sportsman seem to be the last bations of sportsman racing innovation in the NHRA/IHRA world.

Maybe in IHRA, but comp has it all over those two classes. Plus it's first to the finish line in comp.

True, to some extent, Dave. Comp is mostly about innovation in the drive train...the cars/chassis have arguably stayed the same for many years (light, expensive, and pretty much homogenized within the same class). I'll be the first to agree that there are WAY too many carbureted big block Chevy 4-link dragsters in T/D, but the class rivals Comp in variety. If we could figure out how to encourage more fast altereds to come out and play it would really get interesting.

However, so much of the engine technology we enjoy in T/D and T/S comes directly from Comp and Pro Stock. So, thanks!