Drag Week 2012 No Shows???

[JeffMcKC]

Yes that's right. The 32 cars with the quickest average time over the five days go rounds on a sportsman ladder, single elimination, with a .10th of a second cushion IIRC. This assumes that nothing prevents the final day and bracket race from happening like last year's rainout.

I thnk it might be fun to come up with some kind of race for the other class cars on the last day too. Maybe the same open comp format but with teams of GM, Ford and Chrysler/AMC? That way we'd see who can cut a light or not amogst the non DD cars. Then you could run off the DD winner against the non-DD winner best out of three for the Drag Week Drag Race Championship of the World.

Call me crazy.

Your Crazy! LOL

It would be pretty hard to dial off the Heads up Classes from the Weeks worth of runs. Once a guy gets the lead after the third day he goes in to just finish mode and slows down most times because the Ave. becomes hard to over come so how is going to be dialed

[lun40119]

I see you still dont get the fact that its much harder to run for the quickest ET, than get down the track faster than the guy next to you.

So true Jeff............if all I had to do was beat Allen last year side by side, things would be different.

I covered him by .1 on 3 out of 5 days, and still lost in the average. I would have gladly taken a heads up race on Friday...........the average makes things alot tougher!!!

[MoparBilly]

Jake,
The 5th day didn't count. Did you have a good enough run to do it on Friday, or was that why you were still in line right to the bitter end.

[lun40119]

If I remember correctly, I was just shy of .2 quicker on friday, which put the average at .003 me in second. I went back to the pits, and took basically everything that bolted to the car off, and took the exhaust off.

I never want to be called a "Shoulda Coulda Woulda", and I am definately not making excuses. I made my big mistakes on day's 2 and 3, and Ill OWN them, but had I made a 2nd pass on Friday, things would be different. Is what it is.........besides, I like wearing a dress!!!

[JeffMcKC]

The average is a Killer!!!! You find the Fastest Street Cars in the Country by ET, not races won. That would be a different Event all together, we had one of those and no one came to it. It did not even cost to enter, it was called the Pump Gas Drags, one Class and who ever turned the win light on went to the next round. 75 cars enter 30 showed up it was a piss poor event till DF pulled the plug.

[lun40119]

Jeff......Christina wants to know if she can ride with you this year............that cool? Bring your ear muffs!!!

[JeffMcKC]

OHHHH thats to easy, I am not even going to say it.

[lun40119]

Oh come on!!! Chicken shit!!!

[1956NY150]

"You find the Fastest Street Cars in the Country by ET, not races won."

thats a Hard Sell

Drag racing
is a competition in which specially prepared automobiles or motorcycles compete, two or more at a time, to be the first to cross a set finish line, from a standing start, in a straight line, over a measured distance, most commonly a 1/4 mile

You can win the DRAG Race and be the fastest and quickest car in the class
you just have to beable to Drive


Bob

[TheSilverBuick]

Not looking for the fastest driver, looking for the fastest car. Pump Gas Drags combined car and driver, and it wasn't very successful.

[JeffMcKC]

"You find the Fastest Street Cars in the Country by ET, not races won."

thats a Hard Sell

Drag racing
is a competition in which specially prepared automobiles or motorcycles compete, two or more at a time, to be the first to cross a set finish line, from a standing start, in a straight line, over a measured distance, most commonly a 1/4 mile

You can win the DRAG Race and be the fastest and quickest car in the class
you just have to beable to Drive


Bob

Its a easy sell, I already told you, we had a Event like that, where were you? It failed BIG TIME they could not even fill the feild, I went just to support it.

Where did you ever get the Idea its a Drag Race?

Let me cut and Paste this for you, right from the Drag Week Page.
"For the first time ever, we're encouraging spectators to show up to watch the battle for HOT ROD's Fastest Street Car in America."

If you will notice the letters are real Big on CAR from them!
Read more: http://www.hotrod.com/dragweek/hrdp_...#ixzz1rBuUkIPO

Its would be real easy to sand bag all week running 20 second passes and then change valve train and gears the last day but for 4 days have no stress on the Car, whats that show?

The Average makes it where you have to run a Best ET each day, much harder to do making the "Perfect Pass" each day. Than turn on a win light. Turning on the Win light would be easier by far, fast car just fenders the other guy down the track. Yawn

Your not going to tree a guy by half a second, its a pipe dream to think you would win a Class that way OR YOU COULD HOPE HE BEAKS. Personally I hate the guys that wait for a guy not to show up the next day.

[MoparBilly]

Not looking for the fastest driver, looking for the fastest car. Pump Gas Drags combined car and driver, and it wasn't very successful.

Actually, there is quite a bit of revisionists history going on here, The Pump Gas Drags were quite popular when it was 50 invitee's making time runs....then they stepped all over themselves and introduced Competition, and side-by-side eliminations. Everyone bailed, because STREET CAR guys, by the very definition aren't racers, or they'd have race cars...

Bob,
To thier credit, the Hot Rod staff isn't going to make the same mistake twice!!
25 years ago, I pulled my hot car off the street, and got a serious drag car, because of all the pretenders who wanted to burn-out in front of the school, or rip through the gears down main, or show off a time slip they got on a single at test-n-tune, but would throw out every excuse in the book for not wanting to line up side-by-side.

In all my years of racing and competing, I've come to realize it's just not for everyone. That doesn't mean the race tracks shouldn't cater to the Time Trialers, and the ET. Chasers, or the occasional person who wants to come out and see what it's like, and it doesn't mean that every event held at a drag strip has to be about drag racing...I'm OK with that.

If you are looking for a RACE, every single day, look up my brothers and I, one of us will oblige you, for sure.

Personally, I would LOVE to see the top guys from each class line up beside each other on Friday, If only for the good of the spectators and some killer 1320 Video coverage, but I like "The Game" the way it is set-up now...

[JeffMcKC]

Sorry man I went three years, it was the biggest bunch of cheaters there ever was, and they could not fill the feild, yeah guys fought to enter then did not show up. I felt Bad for the Guys who put it on, good idea just never worked out.

In 2004, HOT ROD fired up the Pump Gas Drags(TM), a shootout of realstreet cars hand-selected by the magazine staff to compete in thisone-of-a-kind event where every car gets loaded with Rockett Brandstreet gasoline, makes the drive from Comp Cams to the dragstrip, andshoots it out. For the first two years, the winner was the car with thelowest average e.t. over three dragstrip passes. Last year was the firsttime the PGD(TM) went heads-up, real drag-race style, and it was a riot. After a lot of discussion about how to tune the event for 2007, wedecided to pretty much leave the format alone but tweak the program tomake it easier to get invited, to let more racers get track time, toprovide a better experience for the fans in the stands, and to cinch thebelt just a bit to keep the cars as street-appearing as possible.

First, we're going to invite 75 cars instead of 50, and unlike the lasttwo years, there will be no alternates. That means every car that showsup on race day has a chance to run. All the cars that pass tech at CompCams will get to attempt the street drive to the dragstrip, and everyone that survives that test will have a chance to qualify for theexclusive 32-car field. In past years, cars that failed the street driveor that didn't qualify were done for the day, but this year, we're goingto have exhibition grudge racing between the rounds of official PGD(TM)eliminations so that ousted racers have more chances to make runs downthe track and so there are no big gaps in the program for the fans.

Next, for the first time ever, Pump Gas Drags(TM) will be held on aSaturday instead of a Friday. That means racers who blow up their junkat the unofficial Thursday-night test and tune at Memphis MotorsportsPark will have an extra day to get it fixed before tech starts at CompCams on Saturday morning. It also means more fans will be able to showup both at Comp and at the dragstrip. Out-of-towners can fly inThursday, watch the T 'n' T that night, guzzle their brains out at theMemphis in May Festival (www.memphisinmay.org) on Friday, take a CompCams factory tour and see all the cars up close on Saturday morning,then hit the track on Saturday afternoon. Racing on Saturday also meanseasing up on the formerly brutal rush-hour cruise from Comp to MMP. As aresult, we've kicked it back up to around 30 miles instead of 20, andafter last year's debacle, we discovered it was too difficult to policethe rule about not shutting off engines in traffic. Instead, we'll sealhoods during tech so they may not be opened until after arrival at thedragstrip.

Other than that, the PGD(TM) is still a format that encourages a hugevariety of cars, so don't be afraid to enter. The only racer who isautomatically invited back is last year's winner, Donohue Hogan, buteven he has to meet all the new rules. Last year, we had just over 200applications, 65 were invited, and only 32 made it to race day. Once wegot to the track, each car had a one-in-three chance of making it intothe HOT ROD Top 10. So when it comes down to it, your chances are prettygood. Try it.



Read more: http://www.hotrod.com/eventcoverage/...#ixzz1rDr90VxI


08 was the last year 4 years was all it took to sink.

[JeffMcKC]

Nothing keeps him lining up with anyone he wants, but he would just need to be ready when the other car is ready. I dont think anyone would complain, but to think they in this format will come to the line all at once is not going to happen from Past Drag Weeks history.

[LAGNAF]

I love to race, but my truck aint fast enuff. Both my friends I go with have faster cars, so we like to make a competition of who has the best light at each track... cuz most the time we dont get lined up next to each other either..