Where do we cross the line?
Having pissed off a few (?) people asking about the Land Speed Shootout, let's keep the fires lit:
When do we start having records for unsponsored cars with owner's who make less than $100,000 a year?
I am not trying to downplay the new record by Poteet and Main, merelly ask the question" Now that we have big money involved in the last bastion of poor man racing, do we care about the backbone of our sport, the grassroot's racer from Alabama who tow's out every year trying to pick up that one or two miles an hour and suddenly see's the record blown away by twenty miles an hour.
Just to be clear, this is not a rant against George Poteet, Ron Main, Dennis Varni or any one else who has earned what they have, it is more about the evolution of our sport, and what I see as a end to ameuter racing on the salt.
Maybe I am wrong in my accessment, but when I look back at the history of our sport I see the Burkland family, the Cohn family, the Cook family, the Vesco's, the Nish's, and many other's who have given their all, including death's on the salt, to achieve their goal's.
We are allready the seemingly last place on earth where Rube Goldberg inovation has a home, so do we just let our sport become another "what used to be" or do we draw a line in the sand and declare "pro classes, and ameuter classes)?
This is not so much of a opinion as it is a question of what direction do we want our sport to take?
I congratulate George and Ron on their record, but I also long for the folk's who cannot fly in part's as the true heroe's of our sport.
Let the denouncement's begin............ Bob
