Top Doorslammers beat Pro Mods

Hey Burkster, read your "Just Wondering" column with reference to a Pro Mod world championship event with great interest.

Australia and New Zealand don't run Pro Mod, they run Top Doorslammer. And they are the fastest in the world. Why would they want to change to NHRA Pro Mod rules to run a 'world championship?' The fields here are full for every race with new cars being built all the time. If the Americans and Europeans want to try and be the fastest in the world, it's time to adopt the Aussie Top Doorslammer rules and see what can be achieved. At least the doorslammers down under still look like cars. The Pro Mods are already weird looking, going the way of the NHRA funny cars which bear nil resemblance to actual cars. (yawn).

It gets real tiring reading about certain American drivers claiming to be multiple World Champions when there really is no world governing body or world set of rules. Easy to be world champion when nobody else turns up. They don't even have full 1/4 mile nitro racing in the NHRA anymore....

Time to send some match racers to Australia where you can still run a full 1/4 mile on a high nitro percentage and still see doored cars without stretched front ends doing 5.8s passes. Then we'll see who is 'world champion.'

Regards,

Todd Triebler
Sydney, Australia

The ‘world view’ from Down Under

When is a "Worldwide Association" not worldwide? When everyone has to bow to the whim of the NHRA.

I can't help but see one glowing discrepancy: "....a conglomeration of Pro Mod sanctioning bodies that will coordinate a Worldwide Pro Mod Challenge..." but then goes on to say, "...run under NHRA rules." And then later on: "...more countries will be added as they adopt NHRA rules for their associations."

Does (Roger) Burgess have some under the table deal going with the NHRA to facilitate their quest for global domination? So because Australia has its own governing body, ANDRA, with its own set of rules we are ineligible?

Hardly seems like a "Worldwide" competition when the best in the business (Zappia & Judd) cannot compete!

Adam Foreman
Brisbane, Australia