I've met the people that make the rules and I thought they seemed like normal reasonable people. [img]graemlins/dunno.gif[/img] And like normal reasonable people they probably get PO'd if people are yelling and criticizing them in the middle of a show and then the ugliness happens. Wasn't there but I've heard both sides..

And I agree about the 'hardcore' vehicles. IMO if I was running a show, the obvious serious draggers would all get lumped into an 'Advanced' class and it would be a free for all. After all, the world finals results every year show that 2 can easily do what 10 does.

Hell I would be thrilled to 'have' to compete in the 'Heavy Hitters' club. Make the cutoff 150db or something. But then I would rather work my *** off and take a 2nd or 3rd than waltz through and scoop an easy win from a bunch of kids with premade boxes. But that's just me [img]smile.gif[/img]

 

That's why the decision was made to bump all those guys with walls into extreme with Rip/Rock, Ray and Jeremy, to make it fun for the premade box crowd. Now there was some selective enforcement going on, as a guy with a "wall" in a minitruck was allowed to compete in 5+ clas as well as a guy with a civic with his seats folded down and a huge box full of Sony's as well (not any difference than Rob and Nicole really) as well as these guys with walls competed in the regular classes at all the other shows and at finals they were bumped. Mind you this was in the west, in the east I think walled cars were in the regular classes at the finals. This was not last years but the year before. Last year they were all at tuner events and I didn't go to any.

Anyways a simple fix would be to get rid of the 5+ class and rename it advanced for cars with walls but below the extreme vehicles.