Push Drags?

SSmackdown is a competition among teams from Chartered Clubs only. You will be driving the cars you built, this is an added event just for SSmackdown participants. The format is intended to foster teamwork and to encourage individuals who wish to compete to join up with local clubs and get involved in local B-body related activities AND come out "in force" when the opportunity presents itself to show other Chartered Clubs what YOUR team is capable of. To win money in so doing is icing on the cake!

Considering that $2004 is the top prize, this competition is not meant to be "easy pickings". A placement in "Top 5" in each competitive category is required to earn points, which also means there is a fair chance that a SSmackdown competitor might NOT earn any points for his/her team in a particular category. If there is concern about Push Drags as an event and your team's ability to perform well, practice would be appropriate. Depending on the total number of SSmackdown teams that form and enter in Las Vegas, as long as all teams compete in all events--including Push Drags, where the top 5 will earn points, guaranteed. If a team chooses NOT to compete in Push Drags, in effect standing on their performance in the other 5 categories, that is their decision. The closeness of competition and potential to earn extra points suggests it would not be wise to pass on competing in Push Drags. The SSmackdown format for 2004 does not have any provision for an alternate vehicle/competitor, once the competition has begun. It's "run what you brung"--just be sure to sign up/show up at the mandatory pre-competition meeting in Las Vegas on Tuesday evening at 8:30pm. Just think of it this way--if a team fails to score well (in top 5) in any of the 5 "regular" competition areas or suffers some sort of mechanical casualty in one of the SSmackdown categories, the Push Drags become a way to recover some of the points being lost due to failure to place or breakage.

Why Push Drags? It's an event with history in a number of other Chevy clubs of long standing. This is not unusual.
Hey--It's ONLY 60 feet.....front wheels must break the beam to start and finish, no one on team forward of front side doors.

Sam Martin
ISSCA Public Relations Officer

Am I incorrect on the sticky track thing?? When we take our first steps heeving a 4000 pound lifeless b-body down sixty feet of prepared track won't our shoes stick to it??? This to me has changed the SSmackdown. It had been created that teamss would come together and compete in 5 events. These events included Drag Race, Road Course, Auto-x, Car show, and Sound off. These events are expressed through driving skill(s)and individual creation or odd ideas. SSmackdown teams have been created by people who perform well in there special area. With this added "event" you are asking us to...push a car...Will it be fun??? Maybe, for those of us that have health issues it will be a challenge. It sounds like a great idea for those that want to participate but to make it part of SSmackdown seams somewhat odd. Maybe make it another event with its own trophy/prize whatever and allow everyone to participate instead of just SSmackdown teams.
This is just my opinion. Not cryin or tryin to "stir" anything up. Just seams that SSmackdown has worked for what is was designed for and now its changed.
Thankss for reading this, if you did. I sincerly look forward to participating in this years National event, and seeing Las Vegas for the first time over the age of 21, I am now 30.
Thankss again, Dave Hulshoff.