One win but missed cut: 1/2 entry fee returned ($125)

-Two wins but missed cut: full entry fee returned ($250)

-Lose in round of 32: 2x entry returned ($500)

-Big money to final 16. (Total purse is the difference between the entry fees collected and the three previous levels of pay outs. Splits, if any, are determined at this time. (Why not just set up the purse fairly to begin with?

Schedule:

- Gates 8 AM

- TT: 9AM (3hrs)

- Rd 1: 12PM (3hrs)

- Rd 2: 3PM (3 Hrs)

- Start show (or dinner break) while determining cut (1 hr)

- Final 32: 7pm (Continue show between rounds)

Michael Schwartz

Raleigh, NC

Maybe it isn’t a ‘spectator sport’?

I really doubt that much can be done to attract spectators to bracket races. The time between rounds is a huge problem in ALL forms of drag racing not just brackets. Bracket cars are built to be boring. I don't mean that negatively. To be successful the car has to be consistent to the thousandths of a second with no drama per run. No drama equals little entertainment value. Everyone has become so good at it that there isn't much for spectators. I totally appreciate the time, money and effort it takes to be a winner but watching a 4.50 dragster race a 4.55 dragster isn't really spellbinding for spectators.

Don Seamans

All-Camaro Pro Stock?

Unless Allen Johnson and Dad decide to retire I’d expect at least one MOPAR P/S car in NHRA competition.

In regards to Lucas pulling out of T/F racing, that would be no surprise when you view the cost vs. the return even if Crampton and Morgan were actually winning. All marketing VPs and many CEOs look exclusively at the number of seconds/minutes and the CPM to quantify the value of any marketing expenditure.

As far as MOPAR sponsoring a P/S team that has virtually never happened. The trivial contributions to Elite’s P/S MOPAR effort is pocket change. Elite was hoping that the Hemi engine would allow them a competitive advantage along with having Erica and Jeggy driving those Hemi powered P/S cars. It just illustrates that AJ Racing has a lot more value than MOPAR management understood when they dumped AJ Racing for the “young guns”.

Jorge Meister