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Please show me a post on this thread that was classless, pro Jr.'s or against. Most I have read here were pretty well thought out and everyone has been civil. Just because you don't happen top agree with some ones remarks sure doesn't make them classless. I seriously doubt you are any "classier" that anyone on the forum. Jim

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You did respond to this thread. Your "classier" response should be reconsidered. Unless you have walked in her shoes you, in all your wisdom, are stating your opinion on why you "don't condone" someone else's drag racing experience...(as you believe it to be) ! How do you discerne the $$$$ vs talent? I haven't noticed any money in the car with her. Did she have it in her jr dragster? "really really wanna" ..."classier"...seriously?
Doug Jonak

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you misunderstood I choose never ever to complain about the time it takes someone runs or ever complain about another class or the folks in it there are not good folks in all classes but there are good folks too and Jim I agree with your statement 5 years old is young tooo young and a little silly and should be reconsidered by NHRA andI could never imagine racing a car at 5 I was barely ready at 11.

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I believe it would be hard to hold them at stand alone events because the majority of them are the children of racers. With an already busy schedule of events I think you would see a major decline in the Jr program if you put them stand alone because most of these kids are getting this chance because their parent is already there racing the divisional in the first place. I do agree 5 is a little young but my 3 and half year old daughter can drive my golf cart around yard like there's no tomorrow.

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Please read my post concerning this issue and a possible solution. The racer's kids who run J/D seem to run pretty tight routine. It's the wealthy wall street mommies and daddies trying to outspend the neighbor down the street, doing this as a passing fad that needs to be filtered out.

Everyone wants to "take in the moment" with their kids. But there are serious racers at LODRS event with serious equipment where these JD racers already need to learn respect, or there won't be anymore REAL race cars at these events. 5 yr olds will only make it worse.

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bandimere does it....

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Hagerstown runs their junior program on Sunday's prior to their regular bracket racing program. The juniors "own" the track for a couple of hours for time trials and then right into eliminations. Once eliminations are done the adult cars start their program. This alleviates the potential for car vs junior accidents, etc.

FWIW

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Our juniors start time trials at 12, and big cars start at 4. No mishaps, yet, as the last few rounds do overlap.
Safety is the most important thing and it comes down to communication.
We are even investing in additional paving to get the juniors off the return road when the last rounds overlap.

Is 5 too young? It prob is.
I have 3 kids, ages 13,15 and 17...
I didn't start my 3 kids in juniors until they were 8, 10 and 12 yrs old. Second pass by my 8 year old was full throttle and we never looked back.
My oldest is now running Summit high school class and has been to 2 ET Finals already.

As far as showing who has more money....have you looked around at the toters and stackers at a divisional lately?
I remember when a dually and a Chaparral gooseneck trailer was the big deal.

We have junior parents with no big cars bringing stackers to the local, weekly races. Am I jealous? Nope.

I appreciate that they have invested in the sport.

Clark

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I was also going to mention Mason Dixon's program. It works well and keeps the Jr.'s away from the full size cars. It would be nice to see other tracks do it this way.

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It's not cost-effective for the parents who race their own car.it's cost 10 buck's to drag that jr to track and race it.and what is the track going to do,open the gates for 16 jr cars which pay 10 dollar for entry fee.

and for the those supposedly bad,unruly kids that feel they can do no wrong, most of them don't have car to race so they have nothing better to do and will be there anyway.

also when I was 6 or 7 my father handed me .22 and we went hunting for rabbits hours at a time.I knew not to shoot my bother with it, like my son knows not to drive down the return road flat out because I told him not too.

these cars are here to stay,so get used to him.