Perhaps, in every man's life there comes a tipping point, when the sky outside the window ceases to hold his blue in comparison to what it was in childhood.
That's when you and stops to fully enjoy what is happening and begin to constantly compare the many aspects of reality that was in the seventies, under Stalin, well, or at least at a time when mobile phones were monochrome, and not at all. A huge number of articles have been written on the subject of what was once the iron was thicker engines more, and have created the machine engineers, not marketers. I want to share my thoughts on the narrower aspects of current trends in the automotive industry, namely, drag racing, or rather the evolution of cars Funny Car during the last half-century.
Hardly anyone comes to the race track to cheer on their favorite producer of motor oils, although personally I somehow more worried about the successes of Ferrari, when the rear wing formular car adorned logo Marlboro. Usually, fans are spending their nerves and money in favor of the factory teams or specific pilots. And in this situation it seems perfectly logical that the fans of John Force came to the strip on «Mustang» and Jim «Jungle Jim» Lieberman their enchanting performances at the event NHRA bad lifted Chevrolet Camaro popularity among fans and not so legitimate races on Quarter. In the sixties, seventies and eighties dregster outlines were recognizable at a glance and from any angle, they are fundamentally different from each other and almost every bend reminiscent of a particular stock car, in spite of the exaggerated form, which at the time gave the name of the class of Funny Car.
What do we have today? What distinguishes the Ford Mustang, which John Force won his sixteenth league title in 2013 from his Chevrolet Camaro sample of the current season?
The answer is simple: the logos of sponsors and painted over the fiberglass «shell» facade, giving a reference to one of the representatives of the Big Three.
If you strip off all vinyl and leave a naked body, then identify the manufacturer who, by the way, spend seven figures all this event called NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, will be absolutely impossible. We have to admit that in the era of the dawn of the Internet and television, there is much more effective tools to enhance the attractiveness of the brand to the consumer, rather than sporting achievements, but for racing fans it is still important to relate their favorite manufacturer of road cars. If this were not so, the Strip would not flashed the characters in T-shirts «Mopar Or No Car», and very hard-nosed fans do not have to stuff yourself blue oval Ford's most unexpected places.
I sincerely want to believe that bosses NHRA understand it, and that is why change the rules in the class of Pro Stock, whose race cars in the next season at least a little, but still close to their civilian counterparts, thanks to the elimination of large air intakes on the hood and the transition to electronic fuel injection.
After the tragic death of Scott Kalitty in 2008 to improve safety standards in distance Funny Car class reduced to a quarter of a mile up to a thousand feet. In circumstances where aerodynamics is one of the fundamental factors of success in the race, it was enough banal oblige teams to roll out a strip dregster more similar to the cars to which they must be associated. The rates would certainly have fallen, and the level of security would inevitably increased.
Many people with me might disagree on some specific points, but the fact is that the popularity of the competition in a variety of Pro Mod series, as well as activities in the spirit of Hot Rod Reunion, involving pilots on vintage machines created by the classical canons of the sixties and seventies inexorably growing year by year. And one of the reasons for this growth, of course, is that sitting in the stands, you'll be rooting for a specific driver, because that's what Dodge Challenger and that in 1970 the issue is your dream car ever since you first saw the movie Vanishing Point. Actually, why you said at the event in a cap with the inscription «Hemi Powered».
