I guess I need to clarify. I think people who bring their fast street car out to the track to run for time only AND then call themselves racers give me a chuckle. No problem with you TNTing, just don't present yourself as a racer if you're not ever going to race it. I agree that these guys are keeping the local tracks open by spending the money to come out, and especially by having a bunch of friends come out to see their car run. I've had some of them trash talk me in the pits about how their street car could take my bracket car. For some reason they think that trash talking is a part of amateur drag racing, maybe they see people do it on a TV show. They don't seem to like it when I come up in the other lane beside them during TNT, though. "Boy, that was close, you only beat me by 2 or 3 car lengths", they have no idea in an 8th mile just how bad they got owned. They are actually good for concentration because you never know what they are going to do at the tree or if they will stay in their lane and it keeps you on your toes. Try cutting a good light when some guy in the next lane launches on the 1st yellow or the 2nd staging bulb and you're making sure he's not in your lane when you take off! What Doesn't give me a chuckle is when these guys are dripping A/C condensation or other fluids all over the track and they don't get waved off, (the tracks fault) or when the trucks scatter trash from the bed all over the track or when they pop a radiator hose at the start line and run the car all the way down the track causing a long shutdown for cleanup.
