Question for you stock & super stock racers

[Michael Beard]

Originally Posted by 1664SSJA

With THAT crappy treatment, along with being able to run Nationals without going to Divisionals, I don't know what ANYONE would want to race IHRA for when you can go to any NHRA race and get treated like a king.

YEAH. The biggest problem with IHRA races is that it doesn't say "NHRA" on them.


Been there, raced them, took the extra day or two off work to do it.

[Mark Schmidt]

I run SC and will likely do some TD this year...my reason? Tired of running at night just before the gates close. If I was racing for the $$ I would bracket race a lot more. I don't really care for throttle stops so TD is at least an option. I don't care where I pit, as long as it's not in a lake at National Trail. As far as changes go, I would like to see Thu-Sun Division races that are combined to have 2 events in one weekend. Gas prices are killing all of us.

Food for thought...So the big $$$ business deal didn't work out. Rumor has it that Bruton Smith is interested. If that happens many people believe that NHRA national events will be professionals only. He believes in a class system similar to NASCAR, where the Nationwide series is to develop future pros. It is possible that another series (IHRA perhaps) would be the sportsman series. Wally would have never let his beloved sportsman racers down, but Wally's gone and things change. We all knew what we were getting into when we decided to build nice cars and go NHRA racing. Although it is costly and eats vacation time I still enjoy it a lot.

Just my $.02