30 years ago. Man time flys.

moparstud440 said
This will be my 27th year, started at the rip ole age of 8 lol. The development in the consistency of the cars and drivers over the past 10-15 years has been crazy. Sometimes it makes your wonder if some of the drivers really are human. Do wish they'd make a class that is 100% strictly footbrake (no buttons, no hand throttle controls, etc, unless of course the driver has a disability). But like anything, things evolve over time and just need to adapt.

Not my home track but Quaker City in Ohio tried that for awhile. Trouble is then you have two lower count classes and the guys still want high purses. Can’t do it. I watch these kids double class, buy back sometimes in both classes and wonder how the heck they can afford it. Then us cheap guys are racing against guys that had double time trials, double rounds raced and as you said it isn’t easy. I love going to big money races and have been winning more rounds by doing so. You gotta race the tough guys to toughen up. I pushed my last engine five years and I won’t be doing that again as leaks and track maintenance increases. When you get one maybe two time trials you can’t miss on over a simple maintenance job at a three day 20,000.00 a day race. There are no time trials after Friday and maybe not even Friday