FINAL THOUGHTS ON THE 2007 POINTS SYSTEM
Wed, 2006-09-06 17:35
After having interviewed 35 team
owners, drivers, tuners and sponsors for their views of the new points system,
here’s the bottom line: The majority of those polled aren’t against change
per se, and most aren’t even opposed to the system of reducing the
championship contenders to a field of eight in each professional category
beginning with next year’s U.S. Nationals. However, even drivers touted by NHRA
as being totally in favor of the new plan turn out not to be so favorable
towards it when out of earshot of association officials. Even POWERade champion
Gary Scelzi, said to be totally behind it, turns out to have misgivings about
the Final Four cut-down with just two races remaining. Virtually everyone else
we spoke with was adamantly opposed to that portion of the plan. The other area
in which there was total unanimity was the racer’s ire at not being asked for
their input before the decision was set in stone and the announcement made.
More evidence of that could have been found in Friday’s PRO meeting, where a
show of hands of those present, a considerably larger number than we managed to
poll personally, indicated total opposition to the cut to just four championship
contenders with two races remaining.
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