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Date Posted: 23:28:23 04/01/03 Tue
Author: undercubed
Subject: What Is Grudge Racing

Do you remember the good ole� days back in high school or cruising main street on the weekends when all you could hear was the �thumpity thump� of small blocks and big blocks? There was always someone who was �king of the hill� or �top dog� with their Chevy, Ford, AMC, GM or Mopar muscle machine. These were the guys that all the other local hot rodders and wrench heads always tried to beat. I think every town or city in America, no matter how large or small, had a road that was marked off for drag racing and when there was a race set up, this was the place everyone met to see who had the baddest street machine around. It was fast, exciting grass roots racing just like depicted in the movie �American Graffiti� when the Ford coupe took on the �57 Chevy on an abandoned country road.

Grass roots racing is exactly what grudge racing is. In grudge racing, you will not find nationally known drivers, no national sanctioning bodies, no national sponsorships or television coverage. These guys and gals are not running for national fame or thousands of dollars in points funding. What you will find in grudge racing is fast, wild and exciting racing that draws crowds by the thousands to pull for their favorite local �grass roots driver� every week at the local grudge track. Grudge racers are the local hometown guy that works on his own car at night or on weekends in his own yard or shop. It is the local guy that swaps out his own camshaft and intake manifold, the guy pulls his own car to the track and takes as much pride in what he owns as if it were John Force himself. Grudge racers are in it for one plain, simple reason� the love of the sport. Grudge racing is some of the best racing that you will find anywhere. Grudge racing for the most part is heads up, balls to the wall, wheel standing, outlaw style action that is more exciting to many than a pair of Top Fuel dragsters laying down 300 MPH quarter mile passes. Grudge racing is probably one of the only types of drag racing that still to this day, has never changed from it�s originality. Since the day the first drag race was held and the first pair of �grudge racers� paired up, not many things have changed. What you saw fifty years ago, that style of racing is still alive and strong today in grudge racing. Basically, grudge racing is when two drivers think that they can beat each other to the finish line in a no holds barred one shot match race. It is the local guy or gal that fans and spectators can relate to on a personal basis. Are grudge racers famous on a national level where dozens of people line up for autographs? No, but just go to any local grudge track and you will see just how famous and popular a grudge racer can be at a grass roots level, where the fans will flock every week in hopes of seeing just one good grudge race.

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Good Job, Undercubed; Could not have said it better myself. -- Fast X from Cottonport, 18:46:57 04/04/03 Fri
that`s what this board should be all about -- David B., 20:00:59 04/04/03 Fri