RE: [ihc] IH funny car

["John M. Adams" <jma@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ihc@domain.elided [mailto:owner-ihc@domain.elided]On Behalf Of Mac
> McMuffin
> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 12:32 PM
> To: Richard Welty; ihc@domain.elided
> Subject: RE: [ihc] IH funny car
>
>
> ## >> bracket racing is a kind of drag racing for the masses, the ones who
> ## >> can't afford to invest huge amounts of money in their car.
> ## >>
> ## >> basically, you sign up for a bracket, with minimum ET. you
> get staged
> ## >> next to any other car, which has its own bracket. when you
> ## >> get the green
> ## >> light, you go as fast as you can, and you get judged
> against the other
> ## >> car (which gets a green light according to its bracket, not
> ## >> necessarily
> ## >> at the same time as you get it.) if you go too fast, you have
> ## >> "broken out"
> ## >> and lose. otherwise, whoever gets closest to their minimum ET is the
> ## >> winner.
>
> that's interesting, Richard.  not how they used to run things out where we
> were doing our racing (maybe things have changed since then, this was back
> in the end of the '80s, early '90s for my last participation).  of course,
> CA always has to be different from everybody else, so maybe it's a CA
> cultural thing.  when we went out, they always staged cars in the same
> bracket.  could be because of the number of racers who turned up, though,
> with a *lot* of folks in the same brackets, and usually with the
> same kinds
> of rigs.  a lot of early camaros and firebirds, with similar-era mustangs
> (Mach1 and Z28 very popular at that time).  i've never actually seen two
> cars not in the same bracket staged together.  sounds kind of
> interesting to
> see.

Thanks, guys. I had no idea, so it's all interesting from my point of view.
Sounds like a fun way to compete. ~John A.
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