[davidhuff]

Originally Posted by Bernie Cunningham

Welcome to the latest enhancement, I've been to two Nats. so far this year and the experience has been deplorable to say the least and there's a trend. I reckon ya'll should be better off cause your under the track rules for this weekend which should roll into the Gators, I hope. Whoops, it's an NHRA owned track, yes?

Firstly, Pomona which is the easiest of all tracks to timely pit at, it took 5 hours to park 106 rigs. All this happens a day before you make Q runs and you've just wasted many hours. Don't even think about getting tires or a tranny/convertor change or any work on ya car. While there is no TECH line to go to, the credential line is yards deep, again killing your race weekend set-up time. You'll need to get used to that!

Secondly at Phoenix, an even bigger joke. Rigs were circling the many access roads and parking lot's for hours before the 7:00 am gate opening. It was so bad that there were cop cars protecting the gate and making them keep moving. The Indian casino kept booting any rig from their property for days. Some paid to park in the expansive track a week or so early. Because this is a huge facility there was no reason for any of this.
Rumor has it that the track would have taken all the rigs in but NHRA said NO!!
Again, 5 hours to pit 110 rigs which is ridiculous to say the least, all in the day before Q runs and they absolutely don't give an FK !! Two rigs missed the gate opening while circling for hours by about 30 seconds and ended up being #60ish by the time they got to circle back around.

To summarize, I feel that the inefficiency of the personnel will eventually run racers off and eventually cause racers to miss Q and TT runs because they are trying to put 20# of crap into a 10# box!
The frustration level in the holding pen was so high that many racers were in the 'never again' mode.
Isn't it great to be to be a customer of the World Famous NHRA !
As for Redman, we miss you so much, you were treated unfairly.
Sorry everyone, I could go on but that's enough for now..

Makes you wonder why racers put up with this crap?