And so it starts

[Charley Downing]

With around 6 weeks before the Gatornationals officially starts,
I see we have our first withdraw in the stock eliminator category.

Can anyone guess who got the lucky spot today?
Was it spot saving or was this racer just that lucky? You be the judge.

And for those of you that though the GPA deal a few weeks ago was a real thing you are truly special. It was just a funny way of bring up a ON GOING problem that NHRA has yet to ADDRESS and or FIX. Good luck to all you racers with less then 8 grade points this season.

[Brett C]

For those that don’t monitor “live timing”, please expound.

[GTS340]

Hate the system for sure. I can see its a "Hey I'm getting out my good ole buddy" Could use at the least a waiting list of some sort.. Must be what down to 4 grade points now. Sorry to all the 8 or more grade point racers that wanted a chance.

Paul Haszlauer

[442OLDS]

I took a screen shot on my phone when it filled up so I have easily identified the first change.

[SSDA Hemi]

Found it.....

1656 FS/AA Kenneth Miele '08 Cobra FORD 330 MICRO STRATEGIES INC.

Now I know why Ken was so against Charleys new business on here.....



(just kidding!) just post the switch guys. Nail biter watching this unfold!!

[Robin Lawrence]

Good Catch Charlie! Lets out that guy and string him up! It's probably one of those sandbaggers running one of them store bought late model race cars.

I bet he doesn't use blinders either.

I will tell you this is funny ****. Poor Ken,

Oh wait, scratch that.......it was ME! Or should i talk in the third person, it was that EFI guy from Holley Robin Lawrence!! There ya go.

Let me deflect a little pressure from Ken as there was no pre conceived plan. As events have changed in my life I need to make scheduling changes.

I have decided to take an early retirement from Holley. It was a voluntary move on my part. I was scheduled to be in Florida and Georgia for 4 weeks. Lights Out, Baby Gators, Gators and the points meet at SGMP.
With my exit from Holley I cancelled my plan. Holley was very good to me with my program. I t was less expensive than flying in and renting cars and hotels. Plus I was able to race.

I had talked with Ken shortly after he missed the entry for the Gators. He was the very first person to say he needed an entry. I was talking about our banner ad ad the Gators was mentioned. At that point I was still going south.

After I made the decision to withdraw I called Ken. Done deal.

Looking back I should have put it up for offers LOL. No that's not how I roll.

Flame away boys!!

You will see once I am no longer with Holley my posts might look more like Billy Nees posts.

I got work to do, gonna kick some 302 COPO ***


Robin

[B Parker]

Ken and Robin It's not your fault. The most popular class in NHRA racing and they only allow 50 cars. It fills up in 3 minutes. I put the blame on the person in charge of the car quotas for each class. After seeing how fast it filled up you would hope they would have announced and reopened it the next day same deal adding more spots. If you have a grade point of eight you sponsored NHRA on the local level and should have a reasonable chance to enter a National race. If it's a 50 or 63 car field it doesn't change the number of rounds.

Having said that after all the years watching racers swapping out their spot to let another one in. You would think by now they would have had at least the next 10 racers in each class in order they entered but didn't get in on a back up list. Once someone backs out they would go down that list until the spot was filled.

What you and Ken did has been the norm for the last several years. Even if you didn't let Ken know and just dropped out it would not have guaranteed the next one inline would have received your vacant spot. It's long overdue for the person in charge of quotas to have a bystanders list. Lets hope this gets done so we don't have issues like this. BP

[Larry Hill]

Out of the four racers that withdrew representing all three brands, the three racers that replaced them also represent the same three brands. So no harm no foul.

The sad part of NHRA’s direction is it is alienating customers to the point of I don’t care anymore

[GTS340]

You start to feel like your standing in the cold and the last person holding the extra coffee gets in. I was noticing another spot change. 2 grade points in 2022 plus 6 in 2021 equals 4 average. All is well, systems are a go. Never mind the possible person (s) that accumilated maybe 12-16 grade points in the same time frame that wanted to go but can't get in because they don't play the game.
i can never go to National races that are 20 minutes from my house because I don't think I need 8 races to win a division championship. My math says there are only 7 anyway in division 7. Why is a division championship not only divisional races that you claim your in?

Paul Haszlauer
79 C/SA

[Frank Castros]

Charley,
You for sure are special, in a truly dichotomous way. It's not a bad thing, just in a devious way of being.
Frank