If you ran up against a rail in your days..IT WAS THE GUARD RAIL...LOL..
You Zip are a Pioneer to the sport of drag racing..i do not mean to make you embarrassed or angry..but many people on here ( RJ) DO NOT KNOW who you are and what you have accomplished in this sport...i Know who you are and where you came from....What makes you a speacial breed from back in those days..is that you were one of the dinosaurs that was able to evlove and adapt to this so -called bracket racing error...that alone says a lot of your versatility knowing where you came from...
I DO NOT participate in any type of bracket racing..but i am lucky enough to attend a track that holds the 5.99/6.99/7.99 index racing along with their bracket program..
as far as the rails are concerned..i too see them being on another playing field..there is a reason for the old 10% set back rule in door cars..well the rear engine rail blows those rules out of the water to the 100th power..
there is a place for rails in the index heads up world....make it a 5.39 and a 4.99 index open to all cars...IMO a true 4.99 door car will handle a 4.99 rail car majority of the time anyway..( i got my reasons for this but i do not want to step on any toes here).
Outside of wanting to see the index racing take completly over..i would also like to see the old rule of CI per Body weight come back..i feel this was really a fair way for the BB vs SB competition..
its almost embarrasing to come to the track with your branch new 565ci motor..and the annoucer says over the pa.....and here is the Beetlejuice with his new Par small Big block motor....Geeeez,,,now a 632 is being considered a mid-size motor..LOL...
ci per body weight and lets see what your made of
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Bjuice..
"I'M YOUR HUCKLEBERRY ! "