Originally Posted by shawnp
Racing didn't kill racing....it was the concept of racing for big pay days that killed racing. The purse got bigger, the sponsors added up, multi-car teams, big budget R&D bugdest and next thing you know cars are falling off. Some guys could still compete with it but the last few years has gone to show that once again, the mighty dollar has killed yet another sport.
The little track I have been helping with is an 1/8 mile outlaw track. Nothing special for a facility. Nice grass pits, decent paved staging lanes, decent track but not a million dollar facility like those around us. Every Sunday afternoon from opening day to close we fill the spectator side with people. I would guess on average about 200 spectators come in from town. Now this isn't those riding in with the racers, these are folks that purely come out to enjoy watching the cars. They sit there from 1st time run to the final rounds. We always as the racers that run the final, we don't care what you do with splitting up money but the spectators have watched every round from the start, please give them a good race to finish with.
Thats why I am a Big fan of GRUDGE racing..just You tube House of Hook, Piedmont Dragway...."Killin Time" Steve Jackson etc..any of these names will get you there.. ALWAYS 100'S in attendance plenty of trash talk and gambling..Everything I was about brought up in RACING ..
Even go to the website Grudgeracer.com and there is so much trash talk it will make YB look like romper room..and I do mean trash talk about racing not just calling someone a Phucker and disrespecting them as a person because your a a keyboard A$$hole..
I am happy to say I was raised in the 70's and 80''s Street racing...No... not on side walk steets but public roads way far out normally in the early AM hours after weeks of smack talk..might have been a fist fight or two..settled right then and there...the guy with the Fast car got the good looking girl that would sit next to him and cruise the main drag after the race..then go parking at the public park lined up beside 6 or 7 other hot rods......DAMN good racing and good times for sure..
I have posted this before but it fell down somewhere...this is one of my street cars back from early 80's.....it was a true mid 7 second 1/8th mile street car..foot brake,thru mufflers and DOT'S and would get your a$$ on the street..with Slicks, straight headers right converter it would be a 6.90 car for sure.....dead hook and stroll...
