alan= my answer to your question? billy torrance. he let it be known he will not be at all races. he wont make it to all races but will make top 10. thats my point. terry mc was easy pickins till he got a bit of help from other ppl, so he did not improve, others improved his consistency for him. he blew up everything. so, yeh, we have 10 cars lol!!! look at the amount of cars we had in the past. the amount of fuel cars left is a joke, and of the top ten, what? 4 ppl own all 10 cars in T/F?? nobody wants to discuss that im sure. if this sport can only draw 14 T/F cars at the winternationals, this sport has now proven it is in serious, serious, trouble. as for leakers and slackers? we have one T/F car here at seattle that runs no more than one NHRA event per year!!! and that car fails to make full pulls. and it only makes the program as only 15 other T/F cars show up. he could do/has done a burnout, coast down track one time and he is in the race sunday. 14 cars at pomona, and no shoe?? this sport has never been in so much trouble. bill d. put on events that were a local disaster so many ppl showed up. seattle is allowed X amount of night time events. but the northwest nats. get shut down at 5 or 6 pm in mid summer!! no fri. / sat. night racing. and on sunday eliminations are over at what? 3:30 pm?? 4 pm??? why even go on sunday? one must wear sunglasses from the glare of empty aluminum grandstands at seattle on sunday. alan, im sorry to vent, but this sport has gone down the drain just like NASCAR. as being drag racers lets address the problem and solve it. wheelstanders / jets / and god forbid a class that must do a 200 ft. burnout or get docked a couple tenths on the tree!!! no burnouts / wheelstanders / jets?? sunset is now considered as night time racing. nothing like watching fuel cars in the black of night. drag racing is getting just what it asked for. the 4 wide tracks are great for big bracket races. so 4 wide eliminates even more racing from a event. 16 wide is the answer. that way the next generation can spend there day on the phone at the track.