NHRA Chasing Sportsmen from National Events?

[Chris Williams]

Originally Posted by Michael Pliska

Agree!

For anyone who hasn't run at Pacific, it really is bad for getting from the return road, through the pits, back to the staging lanes.

Not sure if they still do it this way at Sonoma, but it used to be a long trip along the road course to get back too. The first few years of that race they had Sportsman classes take a left turn return road which puts you on the road course (which they had us pitted on). The saving grace was that there were no spectators to contend with to get back to your pits. I remember running divisional races there when they had us take the right side return road, it was a much shorter trip. I think I remember one national there when they made us take the right side in one of the later rounds so we could pass the scales, that confused me since I had no clue how to get back to my pit from there!

Regards,

And in a dragster the left-hander from the road course into the staging lanes is quite a PITA.

We've been to Pacific a number of times, and with a smaller event, everyone is pitted up above, where it's now almost all paved, and getting to/from the staging lanes is little more than a big sweeper on the road course. Very nice.