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The boys from Kansas are at it again
dreracecar:
It has become "CHECKB >:( >:( K" racing
225digger:
i seen the car at famoso a few weeks ago . it was awesome so much detail and everything perfect! to bad there was a car in the other lane when it ran would have loved to hear just that car go down the track .
H.G. Wells:
--- Quote from: dreracecar on March 21, 2015, 02:59:47 PM ---It has become "CHECKB >:( >:( K" racing
--- End quote ---
Bruce, yes like many classes the racer with the best (most expensive) equipment usually wins. However....
What Frank and Scott Parks have done with this new combo is perhaps the best example of winning with ingenuity and back yard engineering that racing has seen in decades.
Name another class where guys screwed together a 60 year old block with parts they carved out in there shop in the back yard and set records? (salt flats stuff not withstanding)
Speaking of the handicapping system, when I was sponsoring and working on a JR fuel car 15 years ago they were always the one to beat. If they showed up we figured the best we were going to get was second. Not cubic dollars, they were just that good. Everyone in the class learned from them, even if we did not have one of their chassis. And I watched Scott lose a final in Tulsa to a low dollar car that just got lucky. Scott broke an oil pump shaft after the burn out and got beat by an 8.50 car. Gave me hope that the junk I eventually put together might be able to win. When I still ran that class I competed against cars who had more $ in cylinder heads than I had in my whole operation. Didn't win, but xxxx I had fun.
When I think of guys writing checks to buy the win, the Parks ain't it. They built it by hand.
I have a tremendous amount of respect for those boys from Kansas.
dreracecar:
So if Mr checkbook wanted to be just like them and could afford the 85k just to win $750 and the trophy, How would that be great for the Jr Fuel class as a whole? The tree stagger for the different classes would now have to be adjusted because of those times and to be fair to B & C, but what about the other cars in A that have to suffer the tree hit?
The whole 410 Jr Fuel deal started as one could pick up a used iron sprint car engine for cheap and have fun for minimum cost--- And there were a whole lot of cars back then too.
IIWK (If I were King) comercialy available blocks and heads only as delivered with "blueprinting"
H.G. Wells:
Can't totally disagree, if they offer that new hemi combo for sale it may change the dynamics. Or start another sub class.
I do love to see the innovation, and would hate for anyone to think those guys are check book racers. Cutting a check would not make anyone as successful as those guys.
When the Legends car series started I thought that was just the coolest thing. Spec cars, best driver wins. For the most part that turned into the guy with the biggest check book, or the biggest cheater that did not get caught won. That seems to be the way of most all spec type classes. Perhaps that is why index racing keeps gaining momentum.
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