Thumbs up to this post Jim, You are spot on if the topic is Racing!!! But there is a lot that goes with it. The more money you pay the more the big money cars are gonna want to start upfront via qualifying and that is a part of the problem. But not all crate races are sleepers. I've seen some good ones at PPMS. And like it or not the crate pro stock class at L'ville was very competitive but they never lined them up fastest in front. Format and track prep are the key. As a promoter, If you are gonna bow down to sanctioning bodies to get big names and larger car counts the racing will suffer(sometimes). Maybe we're just old school Jim, in our definition of Racing.
Thanks Hans. I do disagree about the crate pro stocks being competitive, and it would have been far more pronounced if the fast cars would have started up front. Most nights McPherson, Dietz and Zambotti finished 1 2 3, depending on where they started relative to each other, and most passes were made within a lap of the start or restarts. Compare that to many years prior to the crate mandate. Even sponsors of cars in the division would leave the track before the end of the features, during the Rush sanctioning years, because the race was basically decided by lap 5, (and I'm being generous). And now a home-built car in the stock class would be like running a gremlin modified against the Dirt Big Blocks. That was probably inevitable, but it still bothers me.
Edited by FanJim24, 10 May 2021 - 05:42 PM.
