Indie Promotional Energies are pumping along this summer. The glut-and that's a good thing- of Top Sportsman-based creature features in the East are keeping folks surrounded by progressive slammer science and amused in what is turning out to be a deadly heat season. My remarks on mortgage money outlooks earlier this year do not deserve much of a self-serving pat on the back (tho I am unabashedly Vain.....) so much as acknowledgement that I, too, have been stating the obvious. I dig macroeconomics. I'm sad so many peeps have staked their racing.....and personal futures on real estate...but the free market of ideas will turn things.
In the new Hot Rod, Gene Fultons' interview and dissection of that massive 870 inch broad-use weapon of his (Six inch barrels! Five stages-obstensively to manage the "first 200 feet" of a strip surface....) pretty much put me over the edge. This motor is the hot tip for bottomless budget 10.5 tire racers and Q8 killer cars running for 1500 dollars in the Virginias.
We also have pickapart outlets with truck motors and literature to help us put them together. Personally, I love grinding heads myself-and would love to place my sweat equity into more modest proposals.....
http://www.draglist.com/artman2/publish/daily_stories/Chuck_Etchells_And_The_Fate_Of_The_Underdogs.shtml
is a great indie fuel confessional by a draglist senior editor. Read it and weep...I did.

I'm linking http://www.dragracingonline.com/columns/utterback/ix_8-1.html the most recent by fellow NR alumnus "Jefty"-----mainly because he's been a lot funnier lately than I've felt. Speaking of funny, I continue to want to get up on my toes so I can look around and past the local NFC fad many west coast fans are patiently waiting out.....as I told draglist 'friends' this week, I seek out 7.99 and quicker Top/Adv ET category cars for kicks as a 'tator. Can't get my head around people who race on a 10:1 financial diminishment- even Bucky must have lost money running at Spokane.....
As far as racing................

Solution oriented as I am, I've been a bit more adament about digging down through the marketing to find a clean patch of pure racing. The stupid violence the program mitigates, aside, I'll continue to affiliate with BSR- and harp about no one having found a viable alternative...and will crush trolls who diss the Brotherhood on the 'net- wherever I may roam.......