glofria
Nitro Member
Word on the web is that there are over 50 Funny Cars pre-entered in next month's Funny Car Chaos at Ennis, TX. Plus, 20 or so Fuel Altereds will be there with the Outlaw Fuel Altered Association too.
Couldn’t agree more. Think back to when racing was at its peak...match racing, cars with names, drivers with personalities that preceded them....that’s exactly what’s happening with the No Prep/Street Outlaws racing nowadays. We see these guys on TV but they spend the rest of their year barnstorming the country running matchraces and packing the house.Your right drag racing is not dying it's just changing from the way it's always been.
It's natural that peoples interest change with time and we are seeing that in drag racing plus many other sports.
Jim Hill
Pete DeVita:Couldn’t agree more. Think back to when racing was at its peak...match racing, cars with names, drivers with personalities that preceded them....that’s exactly what’s happening with the No Prep/Street Outlaws racing nowadays. We see these guys on TV but they spend the rest of their year barnstorming the country running matchraces and packing the house.
The street racing show has added a much different look and kind of moving away from NHRA style drag racing only on sectioned tracks and now with many groups charging much higher entry fees to fund the pay-out we see another way forward for drag racing without looking for sponsors.
The racers who run pro-stock and win a National Event and don't get paid very much money now have another way of making more money running these special events which are paying a lot more money.
This may all end up changing the way the NHRA runs their shows down the road.
One thing I’m genuinely sick of reading on social media (and occasionally here) is posts with a toxic political bent claiming because we have a different party in charge the whole sport is going to collapse. If the sport were so susceptible to political winds changing (and I don’t think it is), then it is us to blame.