Re: "Live" from our D-2 southern spring trip 2017
 

The detailed run schedule is usually posted late afternoon or evening on the Monday of the week of the race. For Gainesville that will be next Monday late afternoon or evening.

Re: "Live" from our D-2 southern spring trip 2017
 

Well we are in Gainesville stacked outside on the little paved roads. There are probably about 20 rigs here now. From what we have heard parking will begin about 4 tomorrow, but that is not official. We have not talked with anyone who knows for sure. And then another rumor was that only the ones who are testing are going to get parked. Whenever I hear something official, I will let you know or the Boss will!!

Here are a couple of pictures from today:

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This is Larry on the roof of the motorhome pulling the fan motor out of the AC so he can order a new one! Scary!!

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Here are Jim Marshall and Jim Roberts supervising! Actually Mr. Roberts got up there with Larry and helped a bunch. Thanks, guys! And Terry Nagel, also. Larry was going to put a ladder in the back of Terry's truck to get up on the roof, but someone was kind enough to loan him an extension ladder that worked much better!

Re: "Live" from our D-2 southern spring trip 2017
 

I hope you didn't get any of that Wildwood weed? Someone wrote a song about it in the 1970s.

The wildwood flower grew wild on the farm,
And we never knowed what it was called.
Some said it was a flower and some said it was weed,
I never gave it much thought
One day I was out there talking to my brother,
Reached down for a weed to chew on,
Things got fuzzy and things got blurry,
And then everything was gone!
Didn't know what happened,
But I knew it beat the hell out of sniffin' burlap.

Re: "Live" from our D-2 southern spring trip 2017
 

Funny, Bunk!!!

Still sitting here waiting to get parked!

No word yet!

Re: "Live" from our D-2 southern spring trip 2017
 

We are moving in!

Re: "Live" from our D-2 southern spring trip 2017
 

Where is Redman when you need him???

Finally started parking about 3. Parked where they told us. Now no satellite tv! Parking was really a fiasco! All sportsmen are to the right we were told. But if you drive around, that just applied to some!

Oh well! We are just here for 2 weeks with no tv. May be moving tomorrow

Re: "Live" from our D-2 southern spring trip 2017
 

Welcome to the latest enhancement, I've been to two Nats. so far this year and the experience has been deplorable to say the least and there's a trend. I reckon ya'll should be better off cause your under the track rules for this weekend which should roll into the Gators, I hope. Whoops, it's an NHRA owned track, yes?

Firstly, Pomona which is the easiest of all tracks to timely pit at, it took 5 hours to park 106 rigs. All this happens a day before you make Q runs and you've just wasted many hours. Don't even think about getting tires or a tranny/convertor change or any work on ya car. While there is no TECH line to go to, the credential line is yards deep, again killing your race weekend set-up time. You'll need to get used to that!

Secondly at Phoenix, an even bigger joke. Rigs were circling the many access roads and parking lot's for hours before the 7:00 am gate opening. It was so bad that there were cop cars protecting the gate and making them keep moving. The Indian casino kept booting any rig from their property for days. Some paid to park in the expansive track a week or so early. Because this is a huge facility there was no reason for any of this.
Rumor has it that the track would have taken all the rigs in but NHRA said NO!!
Again, 5 hours to pit 110 rigs which is ridiculous to say the least, all in the day before Q runs and they absolutely don't give an FK !! Two rigs missed the gate opening while circling for hours by about 30 seconds and ended up being #60ish by the time they got to circle back around.

To summarize, I feel that the inefficiency of the personnel will eventually run racers off and eventually cause racers to miss Q and TT runs because they are trying to put 20# of crap into a 10# box!
The frustration level in the holding pen was so high that many racers were in the 'never again' mode.
Isn't it great to be to be a customer of the World Famous NHRA !
As for Redman, we miss you so much, you were treated unfairly.
Sorry everyone, I could go on but that's enough for now..

Re: "Live" from our D-2 southern spring trip 2017
 

Makes you wonder why racers put up with this crap?

Re: "Live" from our D-2 southern spring trip 2017
 

BEACAUSE THIS IS WHAT WE DO keep throwing stones HATER

Re: "Live" from our D-2 southern spring trip 2017
 

Perhaps just frustrated given how NHRA framed this change initially, see the link.

http://www.nhraracer.com/content/gen...173&zoneid=175

Agree that with any organization making changes it brings new challenges. The ball is in their court now to learn from the first two National events and hopefully make headway on where the new bottlenecks are occurring. As someone else stated a first year industrial engineering student could have predicted this. As for parking some experienced racers probably need to make some constructive polite feedback to those doing the stacking/parking. At a recent marathon event I was supporting my daughter-in-law's first 26.2 miler and noticed some "rookie" officials botching up some things and stepped in to show them how to improve what they were doing (which was nothing). They had obviously received no training nor understood how things are suppose to flow, perhaps some of this applies here. I've been unable to race for the last three years but just offering that racers can become part of the solution.