Oh, by the way, here's the trophy. For Saturday-nighters from Maine to California, the IMCA Super Nationals might as well be Indianapolis. And its trophy might as well be the Borg-Warner. This is the modified race. It always has been, ever since IMCA started the modifieds.
People can say what they want.
There are bigger money races out there, but this is the granddaddy of them all. When your buddy stops spinning and sputtering, try calm logic. It's contrived participation, in a reversed, gerrymandered, brilliantly simple way. It's called the engine claim, the rule that cursed as it is serves as the reason behind the popularity of Super Nationals and all other forms of racing sanctioned by the International Motor Contest Association. Hyperbole aside, the claim works.