Hahaha Hot Rod Blog - Drag Week

[tedly]

Dude, start taking your meds again.

[JeffMcKC]

Every Family of this size has 2 grown men that live in the Basement and claim its everyone elses fault they are there.

Those that show little effort, share little in the rewards. Its as fair as it can be, those that paid attn. to the event thay want to go to had no problem signing up, those that showed no interest, and thought it was not going to matter when they signed up because a space would be there for them "slept at the lights", hell there was even a count down this year, never fear, I think spots will open up just like Pump Gas Drags when gus took spots and then did not get done they have a list, are you on it? Or just crying its not all about you waiting for them to come knock on your door and beg a guy just like you to come, when you have no car to enter.

[38P]

How rude.

[ksj2]

How rude.

Jeff rude?Say its not so.Im sure you meant someone else.BTW 125 days guys and gals.

[CDMBill]

125 huh? And me with the car all torn to pieces again. At least it feels more like the usual pre-DW routine. As to all this other stuff, people either sign up, show up, or they don't. We all make choices, most of us just don't whine about the results after the fact.

[38P]

Not to beat a dead horse . . .

But there are at least three vehicles in this year's "One Lap of America" running manufacturer's licence plates -- a Jeep SRT-8, a turbocharged Honda Odyssey, and a Roush Mustang (driven by a pair of editors from Muscle Mustangs and Fast Fords).

Recalling that DF "borrowed" the DW* concept from "One Lap of America," wouldn't the marketing metrics of factory participation be similar?

[JeffMcKC]

One Lap of America has a Drag Race each day at a different track? Maybe your thinking Power Tour, or maybe you have no Clue what your talking about once again. Once again, nothing kept anyone from signing up when it was sign up time.

[andy30thz]

Its true, I'm sure there are ways around the registration/owner rule.

But I don't think having manufactures bring out ONE cool project would bother me too much.
Their stuff will have more dollars and potentially more testing time (if it didn't get thrashed together at the last minute, hey it happens to them as well)
They would still be subjected to the rules. Only the supplies they can carry, limited personal to work on it and no trailers.

From what I read about the guys in Ford's Mustang program they would be an absolute BLAST to have kicking around at drag week.
Not to mention the GM performance guys and the MOPAR team. If it was just a total of three cars and six guys, I can't see a huge impact.
Not to mention if the powers that be felt they weren't really meeting the spirit of drag week, I think they would totally understand if they were more of an exhibition and couldn't win their class.

It all depends how you look at it. There are already a bunch of guys that are out gunned in their particular class and still have the time of their lives! It seems like the crowd DW is trying to attract is the guys that love the comradery, not just the class winners.

[CDMBill]

I have to say it would be fun to have a set of factory guys driving street legal version of the Cobra Jet Mustang, COPO Camaro and Drag Pak Challenger, hopefully all in the same class, same rules as everybody else. Factory AF/X anybody? But that's for HRM and DF to decide for 2013 as I doubt they've registered, nor have they gone in the back door and asked. But I bet if the Lingenfleter guys asked they would be allowed to show up with that ZL-1 and run DD or back of the bus in BB/PA or SB/PA. I can understand the marketing aspect of that kind of particpation and exhibition cars were part of the early event rules. But, given the hordes of cars we have now maybe not so much.

[JeffMcKC]

It would be cool of them to come, next year if they get entered in time. OR They come and are not in a Class this year, it would not be fair to the guys that are on the list waiting for a spot already. This is where David gets it right, or has in the past, the Rules are the Rules and it does not matter who you are, coming from a guy who supports this and did the Pump Gas Drags as much as anyone and also got bumped from my Class when I was 30 minutes late to Indy's staging lane cut-off time as I should have been. We have had exhibition cars roll with us before.
Making "Different/New Rules" just for people or Corps. with Deep Pockets will kill the event for sure.

[38P]

Who has no clue?

One Lap of America has a Drag Race each day at a different track? Maybe your thinking Power Tour, or maybe you have no Clue what your talking about once again.

1. For those oblivious to anything but the 1320 (not mentioning any names), One lap of America is a series of TIME TRIALS for street legal cars at a variety of venues, including road courses, drag strips, oval tracks, dirt tracks and autocrosses. Although twisty stuff predominates, One Lap has time trialed on at least one of the same drag strips as DW*.

2. Excluding the spectacular Daily Driver bracket race eliminator, HRM's DW* is a series of . . . TIME TRIALS (not actual drag races) for street legal cars at a variety of drag strips.

3. DF has repeatedly admitted that his idea for DW* was inspired by One Lap of America (i.e. traveling to a series of race tracks for time trials in street cars).

4. One Lap is actually much more challenging than DW*. For example, One Lap limits competitiors to one set of fairly hard DOT tires for the entire event (unless a tire must be replaced for safety). No slicks or autocross tires allowed. One Lap is also longer, runs more time trials, and visits more venues over the course of the event. One Lap limits the number of laps a competitior may run at each venue and provides for, at most, one practice lap before timing starts. Most One Lap venues run time trials rain or shine. One Lap has a more grueling travel schedule that virutally requires a co-driver for the "transit" stages.

5. One Lap is wholly unlike the Power Tour. The Power Tour isn't a competition. The Power Tour isn't scored or timed. The Power Tour infrequently provides for opportunities to run at speed on a race track.

In short, JeffMcKC does not have a valid criticism of the original point about factory participation at One Lap. Nor do those who would object to similar factory-backed efforts at DW*.

. . . , nothing kept anyone from signing up when it was sign up time

Irrelevant to the point of whether or not factory-backed cars ought to run DW*. Presumably, if the OEMs were involved, they'd be monitoring the web and paying attention to HRM's ridiculous registration scheme. Or they'd simply contract with proven "insiders" to run factory stuff, as they often have for other drag racing events.

[Barry Donovan]

there really is a legit gripe.
14 classes, and even extra beond that, alot of diversity..and 200 total to fill it in.

finding a best of something and giving awards? I won't necessarily call it the best.
darn good and having fun, yes.


and that one lap of america. what is up with the screaming turbo 1978 zephyrs with an IRS ( natsunbishibaru gtr).

just the mustangs exhaust should crack one of those in half.


nice to see a vette , viper in the top 5 anyway..

[38P]

I'm not sure I fully understand boxer3main's unique version of the English language . . . .

[TC]

I'm not sure I fully understand boxer3main's unique version of the English language . . . .

I believe there is a certain level of genius one must acquire to fully understand him........It takes time and sometimes you'll still be like WTF..........

[moparmaniac07]

I'm not sure I fully understand boxer3main's unique version of the English language . . . .

He was agreeing with you about the registration