Is this really considered "racing?"

[fastman614]

Speed drives my designs, not time. A big flywheel in a model A will develop enough torque to race and beat someone across the street, quickly with not very much speed. I don't care if it takes me two weeks to get across the street as long as I set a speed record when I get there!
Although the Beck roadster is certainly food for thought!
Even though lsr is speed trials I will say I'm going racing!

Jack, your ARE  correct .... in fact, that pretty much sums it up!....

[theazoldcrow]

You are "racing" your nose , to see who gets there first!!!  Then comes the technology of, why, how fast, and at what rate??   So goes the life of an LSR!

[DocBeech]

anytime a rule is added to slow you down, its racing Its what all the big boys are doing to try to keep people from becomming too great. Just look at the new Jimmy Johnson rule. Amazingly talented driver was able to get new rules put in place this season. You know its racing when they start doing things to try to keep you from being even faster/better.

[4-barrel Mike]

   What's the former coach of the Dallas Cowboys have to do with racing?

Or is it another inane sports cliche?   

Mike

[Milwaukee Midget]

NASCAR isn't racing.  NASCAR hasn't had a genuine race since Donohue drove the AMC Matador.  Today, IMO, NASCAR is all about cult of personality and mega dollar sponsors.  The cars are clones, the organizers are clowns, and the drivers - wetnursing, whiny little primadonnas who are beneath consideration for a spot on the Jerry Springer Show.  NASCAR is a show - no different than a blockbuster movie - and a freak show at that.

Didn't used to be that way, but like Hunter S. Thompson once wrote -

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." 

Kent said it best - "a bag of skittles circling a toilet bowl."

For all of the obstacles that the organizers who sanction Land Speed RACING have thrown up to us, NONE have been designed to slow us up.

[DocBeech]

I think jack would disagree, he has been slowed down quite a bit with his red flag lol.

[dw230]

Do you relate Jack's situation with performance balancing?

DW

[hitz]

I might!

hitz

[nebulous]

Streamliners evolve by new ideas! This is innovation, not "loophole racing!" When these ideas can not be understood by "experts", their opinions unfairly cause rule changes.This kind of activity stifles progress, and lsr could evolve into template racing,a form of  "performance balancing!"

[SPARKY]

I want my performance balance    in the form of domr new heads- ---when might I expect them

[bucketlist]

Was that a drag racer that thinks LS is not racing? Bracket racing is not a race by any stretch of the word. It is the world's shortest and simplest TSD rally: no corners, two instructions, start and finish, the object being to arrive at the right time. Hurrying (i.e. racing) causes you to lose. I like to compare it to Disco. Both are done to flashing lights, both are done in unison, and neither of them is done to music.

[Stan Back]

Brilliant!!!

[nebulous]

I quit the drags when they said they were going to level the playing field with head starts! It seems odd how the new handicappers don't even know what a drag race is!
People always get together and try to make things better with more rules.Then wonder why only money wins! The rest of us become spectators! I am glad that will "never" happen to streamliners!

[DocBeech]

Oh so you think. Streamliners will one day be joined in to the masses 

[nebulous]

Well, what about all the technology that could have been learned from 5050's prone forward design. Decisions were made buy a closed minded group of equalizer's,to ban a successful design because of "what if ". It's (secret) group mentality, that makes the world go around! Templates will be next!