Originally Posted by zipper06
I'm probably going to piss off half of the people who has posted to this post. But i liked the old days, 25 or so yrs. ago. I can remember when Kenny was towing his funny car with a box truck and an inclosed trailer. Sherl and her girl friend was selling t-shirts out of the back of it, i have pics. some where with me and Sherl and her girl friend at Phx. Race way park. We took pics. one day and she brought them over to my pit the next day and collected the $25.00, that keep them going. I can remember bringing over to Jim Head a Tig welder so he/we could weld up his headers so he could keep running. That was racing, today i agree that the cars are running outstanding #'s and all have big sponsers. They change a $50,000.00 moter between rounds and break another, no problems. I would love to see it go back to those days but then i guess the teams with the most money would win like Shaumaker, Force, etc.
Sorry if i pissed anyone off, but i'm old and remember when money was not the major factor, but intellengence was a contributing factor.
About Nascar, i donot watch it unless there's nothing else on TV. Nascar has over shadowed Drag racing for many yrs. and since i don't care for Nascar, it doesn't bother me if thay lose their sponsers. Maybe all racing will divert back to the best tuners, racers i would love to see that.
Sorry if i pissed off a lot of people, this is just my opinion.
Zip/John allen
Zip,
I doubt you pissed ANYBODY off with your post. If I had to take a vote, I would bet 90% would be on your side. I am not nearly as old as you (or outlaw256) and really do not remember much about the early years of dragracing. I have to agree with outlaw, the WHOLE world is too fast nowadays, simply because most folks are money driven robots. I think it would be great to get the computers out of racing, then let the best tuners and racers get back to work. I sometimes wish I was old enough to remember those days, my wife said I would fit right in the "old school" ways". I absolutely think it is crazy to give a race team millions of dollars, then make the backyard guy pay top dollar for his tools, somewhere back in time, priorities have changed dramatically. I do remember at least every street in out town had at least one racer, not anymore. I do miss the simpler days.
BTW, Nascar sucks :!: