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Do I agree with everything NEETS stands for? No. Joe & I have discussions all the time about things and he knows full well where I stand both personally and professionally. Am I willing to criticize NEETS for what they do? Constructively maybe, but professionally I have a very firm stance. We live in America which (so far unless a certain somebody gets elected president and we turn into the Unbearable Socialistic Anarchy), and one of the greatest things about the America I was born in is everybody has the freedom to run things as they see fit. On the same note, we as Americans have the same freedoms to CHOOSE where we want to race our cars/trucks. Yes, you've pretty much (unless you get very lucky or know somebody), nailed the cost of building a car. Now that your car is built, you have a choice as to where to race it. If you feel the NEETS program is too rough for you, or you don't feel the rules aren't something you want to risk your car's well being racing under, guess what... you have the right to not race. Nobody's twisting your arm, nobody's holding a gun to your head either.
These guys are a great group of guys *cough* and gals... from Joe himself, to the officials, to the individual drivers, to the crew members and it's rubbing off onto the track employees when NEETS uses their track too. The pits, during a NEETS show, is like a big (alcohol free) party!!! If you have issues on the track and have to pit, chances are you won't be hurting for any help because the neighbors you pitted next to's crew will be racing back to your area along side your crew.
In closing (and I seriously apologize for getting long winded again), I don't agree with this set of rules but never the less I promote these guys as much as I do my home track of Big Diamond Raceway, Mountain Speedway and New Egypt Speedway because the environment in the pits is all about the enduro "family". Only rather then the feuding cousins type family, these guys are all for having fun and the safety of their competitors and friends and they prove that both on the track and in the pits. You're going to have some numbskulls who, like me originally, are going to ram rod you thinking they're running in a circular demo derby but these drivers are highly in the minority and will learn (as I have learned).
Bottom line... the choice is yours my friend.
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