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I still think there should be some sort of preference for the home division racers. Maybe give the home division racers first choice on the first day if they have say 5 or 6 grade points. Doesn't make sense to have someone from across the country take a local guys spot. I think in the long run this is going to backfire and the divisional races will suffer. I have 7 grade points and most likely will not get in the gators either in SS. The steady reduction in quota is what is causing some of this issue. I guess this year I will try to get 8 or more.
Best of luck to the racers that get in. Well deserved.
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Please stop with .."im a d-2 racer I should get into the gators over someone with more grade points..You are the same racers every year crying you can’t get in.
You should GoTo More Races. I have a grade 6. Can’t get in guess what ? I will race elsewhere. Oh by the way I can’t get into Englishtown. Anymore
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Hey James, not as easy as you think to just go to more races in D2, for me, Orlando is 200 miles and it's the closest. Up where you are it's just the tolls that kill you not the distances. I think the farthest is Epping or Virginia, maybe 400 miles. Galot, which should be in D1 is a mere 900 miles which takes a days drive all by itself. Like I said in an earlier post, over 8k miles to get 6 grade points. It's not about going, it's getting there. I'm on the same page as Mike about division preference.
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D2 has already released the Open schedule, three doubles plus another following the Rockingham race in the fall. Know it’s not ideal for the Florida racers but offers a lot of options to gain grade points.
And for those that haven’t heard, the Baby Gators is an awesome race! No grade points required! Lots of great racing for Class, hopefully with the same great weather as last year and without the circus of the following week.
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I think they should make a minimum of 80 entries but make it a 64 car field.
At least the Baby Gators has class eliminations. If NHRA was smart, they would offer class at many more divisional races as an extra race. They could even charge for that. That way, if you wanted to enter class, you could. If you didn’t want to enter, don’t. I wish they would not have messed with the Gators, but they have. D1 racers have been making the drive down south for decades, so that is not new. To have people with 7 on the outside looking in will need to be reviewed or the racers will give up on the grade points and the division and open numbers will go back down.
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This one will be a bit of an ugly duckling for the first year, until this old Chevrolet guy figures out a Pontiac. I have had a lot of good help so far so we'll have to wait and see how it runs before locking it up in a bodyshop for months on end.
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