NHRA, IHRA, ADRL, your right a gentleman's agreement would not fly but, this isn't one of the above. The gas engines have been used for drag racing and truck pulling forever and by thousands of people every weekend. People have been developing parts for them for the last 50 years. I would venture to say that there is less than 5 shops across the country that are developing parts for the diesel engine in the category of Dale Smiths, Meachum Evans, Dennis Perry's Etc... trucks. Including truck pulling there are what 50 engines that are in the 1500hp plus range and if some one loses a engine due to whatever reason it's that guy that has has to foot the bill for the rebuild out of his own pocket because sponsorship money has not yet fell into our arena.
These trucks are in their infancy stage, even though they have came along way in the last five years, technology is still evolving almost on a daily basis. If people want to see drag racing in the pro classes the teams will have to continue to talk about staging, at least for a while or until the parts catch up with our ego's.
By the way if I decided to step into the national spotlight of NHRA etc. I would expect nothing from my competitor. I would find any advantage to win that I could and it will become that way in our sport in the near future, but for now I will abide by gentleman's agreement.
