Re: Lack of Sportsman Entries for Denver
 

Division 5 could use quite a few more divisionals even if the alcohol cars were not able to race there.

Re: Lack of Sportsman Entries for Denver
 

We lost that option close to here with Salt Lake going back to NHRA. We still have San Antonio,around 1K miles from the Denver area!

Re: Lack of Sportsman Entries for Denver
 

And then we wonder why racers pass on that event.

Re: Lack of Sportsman Entries for Denver
 

True we did lose that option Lane, but I'm heart warmed by Frank Kohutek (the IHRA Div. 4&7 director saying (back in April,2013), that New Mexico now has Hobbs Dragway, and a strip in Roswell, NM now both flying the IHRA sanctioning banners. It's his hope that this will allow IHRA to continue to expand west (including their D7)!

Re: Lack of Sportsman Entries for Denver
 

How is Tucson doing since switching?????? I'd like to race there again. For that matter, I would like to race in Salt Lake City if it wasn't 600 miles of mostly 2 lane roads through the mountains.....LOL Correction......it is about 800 miles from Phoenix. Hiway 89 is closed south of Page, so would have to go through Las Vegas to get there....

Re: Lack of Sportsman Entries for Denver
 

Gary, I just looked at their website, and it seems like they're very happy with flying the IHRA banner, and quite honestly I don't see them wanting to switch back. Their Nitro Jams get hundreds if 1k + spectators every year, and it's only a 1-2 day race! Last I heard, it's possible the new IHRA owners might try to cement their presence there so as to keep NHRA from having a chance at getting it back? I'm disheartened that we lost Salt Lake City from D7, however compared to the other D7 tracks they have, it was like Bandimere Speedway to between Topeka and Brainerd kind of far. Perhaps they might create a D8 someday, but first they need to get their D7 Pro-Am series up and running, and I surely would be good with that!!!

Re: Lack of Sportsman Entries for Denver
 

will division 5 turn to IHRA?

Re: Lack of Sportsman Entries for Denver
 

I just had a look at Brainerd's entry lists. Single-digit entry numbers in TA/D (7), TA/FC (4), Comp (5) and Super Stock (3). Stock is doing better with 29.

Hopefully, things improve in the next 3 weeks or it won't be much of a show.

Re: Lack of Sportsman Entries for Denver
 

Doug, they supposedly already have a D5 for IHRA, but it's only a select number of tracks, and it's not as far west as NHRA's D5 (meaning no Colorado, Wyoming, or Saskatchewan, Canada), and their D5 has some tracks that for the NHRA, would be in their D3 states. Moreover, one of their best track aquisitions (imho), was Thunder Valley Dragway, in Marion, SD. They have primarily been racing under bracket racing only programs, but I'm not sure honestly what's going on up there? Hopefully someone who lives in the area, may correct me on their D5 stuff, but they're about as strong, as IHRA's D7...

As for a specific answer to that question, I doubt if D5 (NHRA) will go IHRA, because Bandimere Speedway, Brainerd, and Heartland Park are too strong (not to mention several other tracks near to each of them). However, who would've thought Southwestern International Raceway in Tucson would go IHRA, and they unanimously voted in favor of switching 2.5yrs ago?

Re: Lack of Sportsman Entries for Denver
 

I think BIR will fill up. Most racers wait, rather than to give NHRA the entry early.