After having interviewed 35 team owners, drivers, tuners and sponsors for their views of the new points system, here’s the bottom line:  The majority of those polled aren’t against change per se, and most aren’t even opposed to the system of reducing the championship contenders to a field of eight in each professional category beginning with next year’s U.S. Nationals.  However, even drivers touted by NHRA as being totally in favor of the new plan turn out not to be so favorable towards it when out of earshot of association officials.  Even POWERade champion Gary Scelzi, said to be totally behind it, turns out to have misgivings about the Final Four cut-down with just two races remaining.  Virtually everyone else we spoke with was adamantly opposed to that portion of the plan.  The other area in which there was total unanimity was the racer’s ire at not being asked for their input before the decision was set in stone and the announcement made.  More evidence of that could have been found in Friday’s PRO meeting, where a show of hands of those present, a considerably larger number than we managed to poll personally, indicated total opposition to the cut to just four championship contenders with two races remaining.