I didnt realize I would be getting a grammer lesson by such a scholar like yourself. So here I'll redo it all so that way maybe, just maybe it'll be clear enough.
It’s a 2.5 class. At many pulls this is the entry class if you are lucky enough to not get thrown in with the 2.6 crowd. I pulled 2.5 in years past and out grew it. I have watched many 2.5 classes this year and never felt like “Yea if they were allowed to hang weight it would be so much of a better class” To be able to have a class that catches on popularity enough to have a common rule set for a large area more than 25% of the pullers in the class have to like it. Ultimately it comes down to the fans and watching 3 classes (just to be clear that includes 2.5, 2.6 and 3.0) that all look the same is dumb. It’s a class designed for, what’s supposed to, run on the street every day. If you’re pulling in the class you having your tow rig on the trailer shouldn’t scare you, if it’s that big of a pain wait until your 5 miles from the pull find a gas station and swap the trucks out again. It’s a deterrent to keep some trucks out that shouldn’t be there anyway. If you can’t make your bumper right to pull then I honestly don’t know the answer to that. I know, make a set of rules that follow your truck down to the “T” and run that class. It’s a street class that you should be able to go get groceries in afterwards right? If not, why aren’t you running 2.6? Do you ever go get groceries with a weight rack holding 600 lbs? Do you haul a hay wagon with one? What about taking a grain load into the elevator? Blocks and ladder bars prevent breakage which helps your low budget guys out. If you don’t draw some hard lines somewhere, and make it easy for the guys who are now not competing in the 2.6 class like they were able to last year they will drop down to 2.5 and run your common guy right out of the sport. The 2.5 class is for the promotion of diesel pulling. Promotion means growth. What kind of growth will you have with basically a 2.6 truck who didn’t like the 2.6 world anymore and came down to clean house? Good luck with that. I will say maybe I have just really lost sight of the direction the entry class should go being a 2.6 guy now, but I do remember what it was like pulling in that class and how I felt then.