[Sonic Blue 85]

I have been wanting to see an event like this. Some friends and I have put some thought into how to make it work. In the past there has been the Big Dog and Little Pooch shoot out, it was a good idea except they did it on a Friday night, you will not get near as many cars that can show up on a friday night as you will on a saturday. To regularly get a good turn out you need to bring cars in from a larger area. If you do it on a saturday you are more likely to get cars from Dallas and Houston, probably more locals also. I liked the Big Dog and Little Pooch event being on a friday night because it is cooler than the middle of the day during the summer months. If you plan an event for a friday night, you would get a better turn out with street cars and street /strip cars, there are enough around to get a good turn out.
Limiting the number of classes to as few as possible, then only pay the final four cars. The more classes you have the more pay outs you have, making it more costly, harder to pay the pay outs and all of the bills that go with putting on an event. It would be nice to only do heads up, but then making classes that allow as many cars as possible to be competive is difficult. If you only have a few basic rules, a few cars will dominate and you will loose your car count. Then if you go the other way, it will be difficult to enforce the rules and you will take the fun out of the event. Index racing would be simple to run and not loose cars because they are not competitive. I know many people that want to race in something other than bracket racing, but are not competitive in mosts classes and do not have the money to step up.
I was a big fan of the Little pooch class before Freddy loosend up the rules.
Limiting suspension and tires are two of the simplest ways to control the performance levels of the cars. It also helps to make rules and stick to them, unless there is an obvious problem with a rule.
I would like to see an event were the fastest cars are running on true 10.5x28s and then possibly two slower classes one with radials and one class for 26x10.5 or 26x11.5. All runing on stock style rear suspension. Then try to come up with a weight break for non power adder carsf and then put a limit the power adders that can be used. That way you don't have to make power adder classes and non power adder classes. Then come up with a reasonable pay out and stick to it. I have been told many times, "we don't have enough cars to make a field so we are not going to pay full pay out" at events I have raced in previously,then you loose the last few cars that did show up.
Making classes that cater to slower cars may also bring in more cars because of cost to build and race the faster cars and the economy, I don't see as many of the faster cars at the big events. With fuel prices being so high I don't plan on going to many events that are out of town myself, I had plans to hit many of the races in Sealy and Houston this spring and summer, I don't know how many I will make with the fuel prices being as high as they are.
I have been to and raced in many Fun Ford events and an NMRA event, I have gotten bored with those events, I have not been to one in years. I would go to another NMRA event if they ever come back to Texas. I enjoy racing against F bodies, Vetts and what ever else I can find to race that runs numbers close to my car. I use to enjoy racing against Grand Nationals when I lived in Houston and they were comon. Now days they seemed to have been replaced with imports. I would like to race against more imports that are in the ball park of my car, but the 15 second fart pipe cars that drowned out my car and can't find all of the gears are irritating.
Limiting car brand will limit your car count and kill the event, if you can find a way to get more of the cars that show up at the track to compete in an event, instead of just sitting around like they are at a car show would increase the car count in a hurry.