Well, he said it all. I know that the high tech
racers will creep into our sport more and more -
speed is what it's about, and
$$$ + high tech=speed,
but please always save a place for the guys who
just want to race for the pure fun of it.
I for one am having a lot more fun this year,
trying to bolt up an old flathead, than I did
last year, having my son in the staging lane with
a laptop wired to my car to try and lie to the
on-board computer So I could try to go faster
than the computer allowed!
Always keep a place for the old iron racers!!!
--- joe boogie <boogiewoogie12@hotmail.com>
wrote:
> Friends, Members, and SCTA, ECTA, &USFRA
> officials:
>
>
> ...Kvach is absolutely right about all the
> "unfairness" of new tech vs.
> old tech...
>
> Exactly why I, (a pretty serious dragracer
> from the "old daze") don't
> even bother to go to the drags anymore. There
> is NOTHING there anymore in
> common with the way we raced. It's ruin't.
> Who in their right mind wants to sit all day
> watching
> computer/electronically controlled cars run
> against a breakout index??? As
> exciting as watchin' paint dry. -or for that
> matter, sit in a hot car in
> the lanes the whole day thru waiting to make a
> couple of passes where some
> computer nerd in the other lane "out chipped"
> ya? Usta be it was Man &
> machine against Man & machine. Now it's all
> about electronics. Bah Hum
> bug. Gawd I'd rather go to the lake... (-or
> "THE LAKES"!)
>
>
> For what it's worth, heres my two
> cents worth;
>
> If the SCTA, USFRA, and ECTA don't pay
> attention to, and STOP
> electronic "rule stretching" by the "New Tech"
> boys NOW, LSR as we know it
> will cease to exist because only the filthy
> rich will be able to race.
>
> LSR is what it is because there is "room"
> for those many who enjoy
> racing with what many in other forms of
> "Motorsport" would laugh at, and
> call "Obsolete" -if not downright antique! How
> many other types of racin'
> have 40yr. old COMPETITIVE Racecars ?
>
>
> I won't even watch NASCAR or NHRA because
> of what they have become.
> I'm not that old, but I remember when "Stock
> Car" MEANT STOCK, CAR.
> period. Richard Petty used to build one from a
> car taken off a dealers
> showroonm floor...Remember? I remember; I
> still have my 1964 NASCAR
> Mechanic's membership pin to prove it...
> NASCAR today is a corporate farce; a
> charade. Every time a Good race
> team actually finds an advantage (which is
> after all THE objective in
> racing....)NASCAR, due to some "corporate"
> coddling, interveines.... "It's
> Entertainment" is what they say; and that's
> very TRUE. They have succeeded
> in taking the SPORT out of the equation. It no
> longer is a sport. When they
> threw away SPORT, they also threw away
> fairness.
> The"OUTLAWS" are rapidly following suit
> as well, and are well on the
> way to becoming a place where RACERS cannot
> afford to race.
>
> Any time you want to screw up a sport, just add
> MONEY -from any source;
> Purses, "sponsors", "corporate" or out of
> pocket. That's what makes LSR so
> special boys; there ain't no money; so
> (hopefully) there ain't no
> corruption.
>
> "GREED" ain't good. Not in sport. Not
> anywhere. As far as I'm
> concerned ....Friends, Good times, and good
> clean Racin' fun IS.
>
>
> ....Ok, I'll jump down off my soap box now.
>
> Really DO "have a nice day"!
> -Doug Anderson Bainbridge, NY
> 1:55pm edt 12/1/99
>
>
>
>
>
> >From: Beth Butters <bbutters@dmi.net>
> >Reply-To: Beth Butters <bbutters@dmi.net>
> >To: "'Carl Dreher'" <focusrsh@arn.net>
> >CC: "land-speed@autox.team.net"
> <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> >Subject: RE: Electronics vs. old way
> >Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 20:44:40 -0800
> >
> >----------
> >From: Carl Dreher[SMTP:focusrsh@arn.net]
> >Sent: Friday, November 12, 1999 7:48 PM
> >Cc: land-speed@autox.team.net
> >Subject: Re: Electronics vs. old way
> >
> > I've been wandering if the day isn't
> coming when the supercharged
> >classes are going to be dominated by the
> electronics managed tubocharged
> >motors and us guys who just don't want to go
> their are racing amongst
> >ourselves. I watch cars like Krugels CBG/Alt
> put the record where AA
> >cars dream of going. It would appear that if
> you have the money and the
> >inkling to use electronics to manage a tubo'd
> motor it is possible to pull
> >hundreds more HP than you can with
> mechanical means. I guess I wander if
> >one day the records will be split between
> electronics managed motors and
> >non. Kind of give us our own XO classes, maybe
> NE class (no electronics)
> >or will we just kind of disappear from the
> scene?? I admit I'm stuck in
> >the 60s but I like old cars and the way they
> were made to run back then and
> >besides I will also feel great if I can get
> my Hilborn to work properly.
> >Anybody else feel the same way? I know that
> either way you do it, It is a
> >great challenge with sat!
> >isfying results and electronics is here and
> now and the future, I just
> >feel its two different ball games, maybe its
> okay if we go the way of
> >Vintage racing someday. I've been crewing on
> Bob Ragsdales 53 stude
> >CBG/alt for the last few years which he has
> really worked to get the record
> >in the class. In l996 we qualified on an open
> record just in front of
> >David Parks tubocarged early Camaro, we
> broke and he set the record at
> >225, fought on for a couple of years and along
> comes Krugals awesome car
> >which puts the record where no Studebaker is
> likely to ever go. So its to
> >D class last year and along comes John Rain
> who sets the record at
> >something like 247, about dreamable max for
> Bobs car with its now near
> >state of the art dialed in injected,
> intercooled 671 supercharged chev
> >with electronic surveillance. So off to
> another class hopping some super
> >sleek tubo'd car doesn't get to the line
> before he has a chance. I hate
> >to see cars like this disappear like the
> flathea!
> >ds and GMC six cars almost did. Keep an eye
> on the situation in
> >of us can get suggestion forms at the timing
> stand and take action to keep
> >this style of doing things alive. Regards
> Kvach in N.Idaho
> >
> >
>
>
=====
Dick J in East Texas
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