Re: No alcohol cars at divisionals in 2012
 

Chuck,
That would work also.

In these Hard Times, It's not about what you bring in but how much goes back out.
Chip

Re: No alcohol cars at divisionals in 2012
 

Then you could guarantee that people would be there to park on Thursday or even Wednesday. :rolleyes: With a Saturday-Sunday race, a much smaller number of people would have to miss some (if any) work days.

The only reason we're doing our $5K-$20K-$5K Footbrake race as Fri-Sat is because we're on Thanksgiving weekend, and the holiday allows us to have the best of both worlds with more travel time on Thursday/Friday, AND a rain date/travel day Sunday.

Re: No alcohol cars at divisionals in 2012
 

Mike, I'm with you - I wouldn't want to see the Sat qualifying run cut out from the program (unless something else was done: read below). We have a quite a few folks in D1 who at a number of points races have no choice but to show up on Sat due to work, etc. But I'm all for running the entire race on Sat afternoon & evening.

Although.... a number of D1 racers chatted recently about the possiblity of having a late day Qulifying session run on Friday evenings.... (maybe 8 - 9 PM or so) if things were to go a Sat Elims only format..... that way even late comers (i.e. the ones who usually can only show up on Saturdays) could have chance to get on the sheet for Saturday Elims. I don't know if the nhra folks would consider something like that as it would extend their work day on Fridays.... but I really think it could be viable option.

Sunday could still be held in reserve for bad weather.... and also many folks who would have otherwise had to not participate (assuming the format change) would still be able to be included.

Anyway those are my thoughts -

BTW - where is that Thanksgiving weekend Footbrake race being held?

Re: No alcohol cars at divisionals in 2012
 

AD,
The Footbrake race is at Coastal Plains Dragway in Jacksonville, NC. It's one of the fastest tracks in the country. great air and the bite is there also. You will run numbers there that you never have.
Also the payout is great too. Not many races around paying $20,000 to win.
Chip Johnson

Re: No alcohol cars at divisionals in 2012
 

That's what they have done with comp in D1.

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Why is it every one wants the two day races to be Friday and Saturday? If you do a Saturday and Sunday two day race at least the nearby racers would not need to miss work to make the race. I keep hearing that you would have Sunday for a travel day but if you really need Sunday to travel then I assume you also needed Thursday to travel to make the race. I understand wanting Sunday as a rain day. But you are making people take a day off (Friday) Just in case there is a rain out and you need Sunday to race. I would rather take a chance at maybe missing work on Monday to finish a race than have the guarantee that you will need to miss work on Friday.

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i agree with you!! I'm not to fund of the fri/sat races

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www.staginglight.com/footbrake No transbrakes or 2-steps, but air/elect. shifters are ok. If you can hoof it, come on down! :D Be cool to have some Class cars there.

Re: No alcohol cars at divisionals in 2012
 

With all this talk about no alky classes at divisionals who are we to think that this won't happen at national events for stock/super stock.

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Works better for me too.....I missed more then one race because I couldn't get off work on Fri....