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I read that B. Smith WILL honor the fan's ticket purchase price toward any zMax Dragway event in 2015. That seems fair...mother nature , not withstanding. AND the track will be "fixed"... > http://www.competitionplus.com/drag-...do-to-fix-this Last edited by RJDUDEK; 09-16-2014 at 09:40 PM. |
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09-16-2014, 10:28 PM | #33 |
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Re: Z-Max Sportsman Racers will finish at Gainesville
I think Bruton Smith is doing some damage control because they were initially told 50%. One thing he isn't is stupid. I was there in the spring and saw super gas cars getting out of at 1000' so something ain't right, it sure ain't from over use whatever it is.
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Re: Z-Max Sportsman Racers will finish at Gainesville
NHRA's policy is 50% after one round of Nitro, the track is making it 100% because they are interested in the spectators' good will. Besides, that will spread the impact because they have several events at the Concord complex every year.
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09-17-2014, 09:43 AM | #35 |
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Re: Z-Max Sportsman Racers will finish at Gainesville
It dosent make sense why all the way down there ? how about a closer venue like Maple Grove that be my track to make it up at
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Re: Z-Max Sportsman Racers will finish at Gainesville
While I don't agree with the location that NHRA has chosen, you have to look at it from a sanctioning body point of view.
1.) Gainesville is an NHRA owned track 2.) Gainesville has the capability of hosting the Top Alcohol Cars if necessary 3.) Z-Max Dragway is considered a Division 2 track I really feel bad for the sportsman racers that are Division 1 competitors and the IHRA racers planning on going to Memphis. There are no winners in this situation. I agree with some of the post that said they could have chose a more practical track; however, with that comes the cost of preparing a new surface (not to mention if it had any problems) and the cost of running another facility. The fact is, we cant control mother nature and we don't want to risk our cars going down an unsafe race track. Its like the old saying goes when you lose a close race, "That's just drag racing".
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Re: Z-Max Sportsman Racers will finish at Gainesville
guess my queston how many will show in Gainsville ?
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Re: Z-Max Sportsman Racers will finish at Gainesville
Food for thought. In the future NHRA should post rain dates and location so that could be taken into concideration before entering to an event. If you enter you have bought into what could happen in the event of a postponement .
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09-18-2014, 05:48 PM | #40 |
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LOL, now your thinking like a blue collar working man Tim. With the forecast showing rain and the make up rain location being Gainesville we would have pulled out of the race. I thought the worst would be we finish on Monday. Now going to Maple Grove nationals and probably will quit my job so I can go to Florida. Next year I will skip This race and go to the sports nationals. If the car counts get any lower for this event they will loose it. Can't blame it all on NHRA besides the make up location, the track was the real problem at hand.
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