NHRA is likely still "gun shy" after the Pro Stock Truck" debacle they created in the past by cancelling the class.
A lot of those PS trucks ended up in Competition Eliminator.
Likely, these new "Frankenstein" cars will end up there too, when this doesn't work!
Yes there was a lawsuit that dragged on fo quite a while. As I understand it the NHRA guaranteed the main players that the class would continue to exist, people spent millions on equipment then the NHRA shortly after pulled the class. A settlement was reached (rumors estimated it to be around 7 million dollars) after a lot of litigation. A gag order wass issued to the litigants to not disclose the final settlement.
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