1/8 mile is what most of us race. GREG or someone closer to track management can confirm this; event insurance is less for 1/8 mile vs. 1/4 mile. It is certainly less expensive on us racers with less fuel use, wear & tear, etc. Building a new facility would be much less if just for 1/8 mile racing. I personally like 1/8 mile better but if Dallas Raceway is racing 1/4 mile this year, I'll be back to racing 1/4 mile. I can and will do both. I have never ran my dragster 1/4 mile so if it doesn't like the big end rpm's, I'll turn on the t-stop.

To your question... The trend has been and continues to be toward more & more 1/8 mile bracket racing. Several years ago there were some of the big money races around the country still ran on the 1/4 mile format. Not many (if any) these days...

Good Luck & Great Racing in 2010  !  !  !

We like the 1/8th, and our car is set up for 1/8th now.  No electronics and nitrous, so we need a gear change for 1/4.  No big deal, but don't want to change back and forth.  Thanks for the input.

We can run 1/8th on spray, and 1/4 without as the car sits now.

I'll guess we'll set up and run for however long the tracks are.  I'm just glad we still have some to go to.

Man I only wish that were true. I actually won't be there tonight. If I am lucky I will make it to Northstar tonight to test. I had mishaps with the new motor last weekend. Started leaking water from the heads and after some stud checks I looked at the oil and it was milky. Smelled like coolant and I started a mad dash for this past week to rebuild the back-up motor after freshening it over the winter. We got it finished and ready to fire last night about 1am so as soon as I get off work and to the house I will fire it off to break in the rings. Hope nothing leaks, change oil/filter, load the car and head to NSD to test(not holding my breath for it tonight though).

I will be at NSD tomorrow and I haven't figured out what to do about sunday(I wanted to run motorplex points especially with the new 1/8mile no/e...I can run 4 classes out there) but NSD rescheduled their Gold Card race for sunday and I will already be there saturday. First I have to have a working car though before I can worry about where to race!!!! 2010 Hasn't started out very well, atleast it can only get better from here right??

I like to do both, 1/4 mile is what everybody judges your car by around here. So if I go around saying that my car does a 6.68 then I get some funny looks.

I race both.But My preferance would be 1/8th.I do like 1/4 mile racing but like others said its more fuel and more parts breakage.

Yes if there is a possibilty of running both. I have a friend with an 1/8th mile set up and it works great for 1/8th. But it will not run 1/4 without really spinning the heck out of it. 5.13 gears