Front Wheel Drive

[jalopyjoe]

Whilst queuing in the fire up road at Sundays RWYB at The Pod and looking at the cars all around me. I got to thinking that surely the time has come for European drag racing to embrace front wheel drive. Our friends across the pond have bitten the bullet with various "Import" series, but European promoters seem determined to ignore it. There would appear to be a vast number of potential grass roots competitors going begging and surely if they joined in at the bottom, a percentage of them would go on to bigger and better things. Before anyone shoots me down I know that we have VWDRC and Sportsman ET but neither of these seem to target these potential competitors.

[jalopyjoe]

When I started this thread I wasn't thinking of the really quick cars that turn up at the various show events, as they're usually run by tuning firms anyway. I think we need to appeal to the guys you see at RWYB events using their daily driver and setting what would be good Sportsman times. The problem as I see it is that at the moment the sport doesn't seem to do anything to encourage them to move on from RWYB to real drag racing. Can you imagine Tescos having a shop full of people with money in their pockets and not trying to sell them anything. These people are at a drag strip, they are interested in racing, they have a suitable car, and yet no effort is made by anyone to recruit them.

[jalopyjoe]

I agree with Andy when he says that not all of these people are interested in real drag racing, but some of them must be and more probably would be if the information was made available to them. What I find really sad is that BRSCC, a roundy round club is targetting these people through their CruiseSport initiative and to add insult to injury they attend the bigger RWYB festival type events to promote their sport to these very people while drag racing seems happy to let potential new blood slip through its fingers.