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Speer Drag Racing · 01-09-2023, 11:28 AM

Timothy nailed it, WAY too many excuses. It is really sad that these races are not attended greatly with how hard they are trying. We have NHRA who seems to be pushing us all away and we just beg more to get in while these promoters are sticking their necks out trying to give us another option and putting BIG money up for grabs. Tyler's Class Racers Revival 2 years ago was one of the best put on shows out there. It had pretty much everything anyone was asking for. Weather was great. He had a CIC race. $25K to win plus some decent round $$. $25K to win with the same entry as a National event to win $1500 from NHRA. $6K if you play the contingency program perfectly. Well he is doing it again at one of the best facilities in the nation. August 4-6. Hopefully we can support this one a little better!!

Up here in Minnesota and surrounding states we have the MCR races and a really good group of people putting these races on. We try to attend as many as we can. It gives us another option anyways. They are working on getting more and more payouts out and at least giving us a few races where there are $4-5K payouts! And they do this with giving out first round win $$ as well.

It would be nice at all of these events to have more of a tech for the people who are still trying to play by the rules but I realize that is a lot to ask for! NHRA really can't even do much of that. I feel old saying it but I remember when I used to worry about having to spend an afternoon putting my car back together after getting tore down.

Hopefully we can figure something else out to get more people to go to these races so NHRA isn't the only thing out there for us diehard S/SS racers!!

01-09-2023, 11:28 AM	#42
Speer Drag Racing Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Minnesota Posts: 48 Likes: 6 Liked 56 Times in 10 Posts	Re: What would it take for you to attend a Sportsman Race Timothy nailed it, WAY too many excuses. It is really sad that these races are not attended greatly with how hard they are trying. We have NHRA who seems to be pushing us all away and we just beg more to get in while these promoters are sticking their necks out trying to give us another option and putting BIG money up for grabs. Tyler's Class Racers Revival 2 years ago was one of the best put on shows out there. It had pretty much everything anyone was asking for. Weather was great. He had a CIC race. $25K to win plus some decent round $$. $25K to win with the same entry as a National event to win $1500 from NHRA. $6K if you play the contingency program perfectly. Well he is doing it again at one of the best facilities in the nation. August 4-6. Hopefully we can support this one a little better!! Up here in Minnesota and surrounding states we have the MCR races and a really good group of people putting these races on. We try to attend as many as we can. It gives us another option anyways. They are working on getting more and more payouts out and at least giving us a few races where there are $4-5K payouts! And they do this with giving out first round win $$ as well. It would be nice at all of these events to have more of a tech for the people who are still trying to play by the rules but I realize that is a lot to ask for! NHRA really can't even do much of that. I feel old saying it but I remember when I used to worry about having to spend an afternoon putting my car back together after getting tore down. Hopefully we can figure something else out to get more people to go to these races so NHRA isn't the only thing out there for us diehard S/SS racers!!