jakk220
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- Nov 13, 2010
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So as some of you probably have already heard, the 2020 shootout is now going to allow Hondas, Audis, and Subarus for the Quick 32 class. Which in my opinion is a slap in the face to the community in my opinion. Regardless of attendance there should NEVER be any other brands of cars allowed in ANY class. I think some people would be more comfortable with the idea of adding another car, such as maybe a supra, but to add 3 whole new brands of cars to a class that is DSM specific is unnecessary. If the event dies then it dies and its no one's fault but the car community.
This is an event that has had a "family" feel ever since I have even attending and is the only drag event I even care to go to every year because of that reason. When you start adding multiple different brands you are now dividing that family among the crowd separated by honda and subaru owners who know nothing about our cars. You lose being able to go up and talk to any random person about dsms and they know what you are talking about.
This will eventually over flow into other classes if it even takes off. The only thing we can do to prevent this is to keep flooding the event with Mitsus and GTRs to prove we don't need those brands. If we stop attending then the event will eventually just be an open event. And no one wants that.
The last class that got added (the RB powered class) I don't believe had any sign ups that I saw. So I don't forsee this taking off either because it has never been a part of those communities and I don't think it will appeal to them given the current demographic involved with those brands. We need to just stay our course and keep attending for the time being unless the event ACTUALLY gets taken over by ther brands. Until that happens there is no need to boycott. It will only make it worse. If that happens Kevin Jewer is already creating another event to hold as a "Second shootout". But until it gets bad we need to keep supporting the event.
I do encourage everyone to voice their opinion to IDRC and Dsport so that we can all be heard and hopefully they will listen. They have taken the advice of us before with things such as max effort so we need to give them a chance to fix it before we just stop attending all together. Feel free to post thoughts below and I can send them a link to this thread so they can see how much noise this actually caused.
This is an event that has had a "family" feel ever since I have even attending and is the only drag event I even care to go to every year because of that reason. When you start adding multiple different brands you are now dividing that family among the crowd separated by honda and subaru owners who know nothing about our cars. You lose being able to go up and talk to any random person about dsms and they know what you are talking about.
This will eventually over flow into other classes if it even takes off. The only thing we can do to prevent this is to keep flooding the event with Mitsus and GTRs to prove we don't need those brands. If we stop attending then the event will eventually just be an open event. And no one wants that.
The last class that got added (the RB powered class) I don't believe had any sign ups that I saw. So I don't forsee this taking off either because it has never been a part of those communities and I don't think it will appeal to them given the current demographic involved with those brands. We need to just stay our course and keep attending for the time being unless the event ACTUALLY gets taken over by ther brands. Until that happens there is no need to boycott. It will only make it worse. If that happens Kevin Jewer is already creating another event to hold as a "Second shootout". But until it gets bad we need to keep supporting the event.
I do encourage everyone to voice their opinion to IDRC and Dsport so that we can all be heard and hopefully they will listen. They have taken the advice of us before with things such as max effort so we need to give them a chance to fix it before we just stop attending all together. Feel free to post thoughts below and I can send them a link to this thread so they can see how much noise this actually caused.