Wow am I happy I just took the time to read this thread.....and I am extra happy that I got to read Nicks advice in particular..

I am a 39 year old male, 6ft 2in tall, wide shoulders, big feet, big hands, and I weigh 200ish pounds...having read the advice mentioned above I now know that with a little diet and exercise that I can easily get my own weight down to that of a 14 year old, 95 pound girl who's barely 5 foot tall and wears shoes and clothes found in the Jr or Childrens section at JC Penny..

Had I known this could be accomplised so easily I would have done it a long long time ago because the series I primarily race with has no weight rule at all...

Any weight rule that doesn't include the driver defeats the purpose of having a weight rule from a competition aspect...Period..

A reasonable car weight rule can for sure have safety benefits, but these ridiculously high weight rules that some groups have in place, especially the ones that punish alcohol cars so severely, are the exact opposite of helping safety... excessive ballast tends to fall off on the track or become a projectile in a crash, filling a 25 gallon tank full of fuel when you only use 5 gallons creates 5 times the potential power of a fire, and if my car is stalled on the track or sitting upside down I am quite sure the 900 pound car that hits me is going to hurt much less than the 1050 pound car that hits me.