Just Wondering... Are the Top Fuel and Funny Car classes slowly turning into de facto Nitro Index racing? I admit that it bothers me when just a tenth of a second or less separates the number 1 and 16 qualifiers at national events. Nitro racing/qualifying ideally is violent, dangerous and unpredictable. When nitro racing becomes predicable it also become boring

Just Wondering... Will the NMCA adding an eighth-mile PDRA-legal Pro Mod class with a reasonable entry fee and purse be a good or bad thing for the class? Will it lead to eight-car fields in both series? A second series for these cars only helps if more racers join the class.

Just Wondering... Did you know that the NHRA charges their nitro teams an entry fee of around $490 per entry? The IHRA is charging their AA/FC teams $500 per entry this year. No point to this tidbit, I just find it interesting.

Just Wondering... Why do AA/FC teams do exhibition laps at national events where Nitro Funny cars are competing? They just appear old and slow funny cars when compared to the nitro floppers, and even the alky cars are quicker and faster.

Just Wondering... Could someone please give me a good reason why the NHRA is resurrecting the Sportsman Nationals and returning to an iconic track with a great history of sportsman specialty races but yet the quickest and fastest Sportsman cars -- Top Alky Dragster and Top Alky Funny Car -- won’t be racing? You may as well call the race “Sportsnationals lite” because of the low alcohol content of the event.

Just Wondering... What drives a smart, successful, wealthy businessman to invest, build or re-build expensive full service motorsports racing facilities? The list of national event level tracks that have never been financially successful is long. Tracks such as the Circuit of the Americas that Texas new car dealer and sports franchise owner Red McComb spent almost a half-billion dollars to build and fund and is so far a financial bust. Same scenario for the original owners of Heartland Park Topeka, Gateway International Raceway, and Memphis Motorsports Park. The madness extends down to the weekly tracks where would-be promoters spend hundreds of thousands and in some case millions of dollars refurbishing facilities that then have gone broke. It defies logic that millionaire and billionaire businessmen keep investing in money in racetracks that are or have failed and expecting that by spending massive amounts of cash to improve those tracks with idea they will start making a profit makes no sense. Yes, racing is indeed a serious addiction.