Went to the Barona race track a few weeks ago to watch. It's a great place, almost everyone was hooking up to the track good and getting the wheels off the ground. Lots of variety of cars new and old. They even let you bring coolers of beer. Gotta love the indian reservations. Fontana is a great track as well, but I happened to go on a Super Comp, etc. day, which I thought was really lame. I have been out of racing for a while and didn't realize how lame these classes have become. Almost 2/3 dragsters and the rest were chevy cars. There was 99% Chevy with one Mopar and 0 fords. They all were going at about idle throttle for the first half of the track so that they could try and get that perfect run of 8.90 . One car was a 70ish Comet with a Maverick fiberglass front clip, but in the front, he had cut out a Chevy symbol. He ended up breaking down driving to the start and had to be towed. I just can't believe there is any market for the super comp style of racing. All I can say is thank God for Fun Ford Weekend, NMRA and the like. The Fontana Dragway is awesome though.
Yep. Those index classes are dull as hell. Nothing worse than watching seven second cars run high eights. Great time to go get a beer and chack out the fairway at a national event.
I have never been a fan of throttle stops..... But those type of classes is where the $$$ is. I mean you win a national SS race and you have all the contigency stickers on your car and its pretty good money. Plus, those local bracket races and what-not is what keeps the tracks open. Also, I am sure if you was behind the wheel of one of them....boring would not be what you was thinking.
throttle stop racing is really boring and really hard if your into it. every car can run the number so it comes down to how well you can use your electronics. takes the car out of the factor.
That's what I don't get. Why is there money coming in when no one watches them because they are sooo boring. The stands were empty at the race I was at, they don't show those classes on TV, and when they race at the big meets everyone goes for a beer=no exposure. If they help keep a track open though then that's good, just like the ricers.
the money is Super Stock racing comes from all those stickers you see on the cars......They are called contentioncy (spelling).....before each season or race, You can get a copy of the sponsors for your class. If you sport their sticker on your car and win, you get money from them. Example: MSD-$250 EAgle-$300 Goodyear-$200 Like that and your class might have 30-50 different sponsors......its big money.
So its sellout drag racing, I get it. Kind of like glam rock in the 80's. I understand the whole contingency thing, but I don't understand why a company would sponsor something that has little interest and little exposure. No one to see the stickers, no one watching in the stands=no sales for the sponsor. Just like the stickers that the surfers put on their boards out here. If they get a pic in a mag they get contingency money, but the concept is that thousands of people see the magazine picture so its a good investment for the company. No one sees the stickers on the super comp dragster.:confused: P.S. I would still love to drive some of those cars, but driving them with a throttle stop would annoy me.
it just gets the racers that are already in the series to run those tires instead of someone else. besides the racers are buying the tires and the company make the money off the tire. hense it makes the buyer buy "their" over the others guys tires thinking they can get some sort of pay out.. when odds are that only one of the racers will win that class.. it a gamble for the company but get people to run their stuff.
