Division 1 schedule
 

The D-1 schedule is out and probably because of all the complaining and whinning the second Atco race has been eliminated. I would image that NHRA is tired of all the nonsense. We are stabbing ourselves in the back with our own knife........

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The entire schedule is out...

http://www.nhra.com/story/2010/11/13...dule-released/

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Your right about that Joe.

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Yeah, well look at the Division 2 schedule. February, March, May, and October. All of the early dates have two races back to back, in Georgia or Florida. Absolute true genius in that schedule. :rolleyes:

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2011 NHRA LUCAS OIL DRAG RACING SERIES SCHEDULE

NORTHEAST DIVISION
May 27-29 Maple Grove Raceway Reading
July 1-3 Lebanon Valley Dragway West Lebanon, N.Y.
July 22-24 New England Dragway Epping, N.H.
Aug. 5-7 Atco Raceway Atco, N.J.
Aug. 19-21 Cecil County Dragway Rising Sun, Md.
Sept. 9-11 Old Bridge Township Raceway Park Englishtown

You got that right Joe.And where do they stick Atco?Right in the middle of our sometimes blow torch summers.So much for the fast records set at sea level tracks.
You don't know what you've got,until you lose it.

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Once again they made it nearly impossible for anyone but a touring pro to get eight races in without traveling all over the country.
Absolutly no races in June in D1 , and then schedule the Epping race ontop of the Columbus race!
I guess they think no one in D1 goes to Columbus!

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3 races with-in a 4 week time period. :( Just when I was thinking about taking my car off the jack stands, dusting it off and try to do some racing next year. Oh well, it is what it is.


SOUTHEAST DIVISION
Feb. 11-13 Bradenton Motorsports Park Bradenton, Fla.
Feb. 18-20 Gainesville Raceway Gainesville, Fla.
March 4-6 South Georgia Motorsports Park Cecil, Ga.
May 20-22 Atlanta Dragway Atlanta
Oct. 14-16 Silver Dollar Raceway Reynolds, Ga.


Hey Dan Moore, you're #1. :D

RIP Mark Graham

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Cute, ain't it? Division 3 is looking better every day.

Basically, Division 2 is telling us all that if we can't take off two weekends in a row 3 times between February and May, you can just go pound sand. And the closest race to the guys in the northern part of Division 2 is a 4 hour drive, the rest of them are 6-7 to 10 or more hours away.

And we get the fewest races of any Division. What a deal!

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Didn't you guys just get a new division director?

Do you think that he is trying to make a "impression" on everyone.

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Yeah, we did. He was part of the staff at Gateway. We were all really impressed with how he never came out to greet the racers anywhere when he was watching Jay Hullinger run the Reynolds race, the one where the track prep was so incredible. :rolleyes:

So our first impression is backed up by our impression of our schedule. :eek:

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Joe, Dennis,and Ed,

I don't think the whinning had anything to do with it, All the divisions(exceptD2) have 6 lodrs races and so do we. They added Epping and dropped 1 Atco race. It is rare to have 2 lodrs races at the same track, we have had 2 at atco for awhile, but I think that was because we don't go to a couple of tracks we use to go to.

Tom, I hear you on columbus, but this scheduling thing is harder than you can imagine, especially with the multitude of events the tracks have. As far as June goes, the first weekend is the e'town nats and the last weekend is the Napierville open.

Does anyone know for sure when the Atco open or the Dutch is ?

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Div 2 schedule blows as always I guess I remember why I havent raced there in years :(. I called there and asked about Z-Max and why we dont get more races they said they were working on it.....What do you do ?!?! If i was retired in Florida i would love the schedule not all of us are retired!!!!! Oh well IHRA and Gear Jammers are looking good.I wish the would of gave Harry the tech guy the job someone that understands us.I respect the zoot suits just like flies one swat there done.Oh well Im not gonna let them bring me down they will never understand us guess there working on there son tans.Does anyone wonder why we quit sponsoring the Divisional its because they wouldnt give us a pit pass that we were entitled to or a parking place ever to display product .We always treated every director with respect!! Bill Holt even came and shook my hand at he div. at Gainesville a week after denying us a National entry to The Gators. classy move there yah.He never got over my Dad not having a grade point and was told he couldnt race Indy he DID after racing Bowling Green THANK YOU! I guess Pops musta been pissed he runner up his first race in years there. Oh well hope to see you all the races next year I will be loaded for BEAR!!!!! My RANT Its the USA last I remembered were still entitled to FREE SPEECH.Any body got some whiskey i need a shot loll....

Tom Hemmingson
Jerico Performance Products

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Just a thought but Atco may not have wanted a second race. Joe has plenty on the schedule and 2 races is not worth the trouble for him. I am sure he probably makes more money on a weekly basis than he does when we show up.

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BTW Im not whining simply stating facts for the record sir yes SIr :) .Funny stuff a respected Pro Stock crew chief tells me I love stock but you guys are treated like a red headed bastard step child..Lol like they care straight shot no KY.But we love it I know it and u know it :) I think i need some sleep

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Do the division 2 and division 4 directors even have each others phone number?

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Im not sure when we ran Montgomery which was a great track for all of us Wesley DIv 4 director at the time used to tech too it was awesome having him there along with the other tech guys.

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Looking at the D1 schedule it would appear they have put a decent amount of time between each event up here. It's not just the racers that are effected by the schedule. The Divisional support staff put in a lot of time to give us an event to run at. Leaving some room in between events in case of rainouts only makes sense, just remember how October went up here.

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Kind of makes you wonder if Arnold wasn't right in deciding to sell his Camaro, doesn't it? Says a lot about the state of our sport that a guy who loves it like Arnold does decides to quit.

I'd say Harry didn't WANT the job, just like Wesley wouldn't want it. Even if he got the job, they wouldn't let him actually do the job. Funny, Harry came to our pits at Reynolds, but the new "director" never bothered.

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Do you really think it would make any difference? :eek:

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Arnold had a enough of it,Its really too bad we see him often as he comes by the shop.We had a lot of good times racing with him we traveled in a pack.Life goes on and on what can you do and he loved it bigtime pb still does but he pb felt like it just wasnt worth it.Arnold and Lynn have been doing a lot of traveling and are enjoying site seeing told him I was happy for him less stress and less BS.

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Yeah Harrys a cool guy pb one of my favorites, so is Wesley. Jim Collins is alright in my book too!I have never had any pbs with any tech director.I used to call Curt Lashure when i built my car the div 1 director he was very helpful , Holt was no help. Harry he's so funny i showed up at Atlanta hadnt raced in years with a Snell 85 he say what the F*** you gonna do with that .I was like whatcha talking about Willis.He says your helmet been out of date for awhile:)

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no, but they stuck g'ville and no problem divisionals on to of each other (8 hrs between them, will hurt the car count at both). Then stuck the houston divisional on top of the Valdosta race. That won't hurt houston as bas as it will Valdosta (not many D2 guys go to Houston, but a fair number of the Louisiana cars come to D2 on a regular basis). Just piss poor planning.

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Here's a merged NHRA national and divisonal schedule.

Feb. 11-13 LODRS 2-1 Bradenton Motorsports Park, Bradenton, FL
Feb. 18-20 LODRS 2-2 Gainesville Raceway, Gainesville, FL
Feb. 18-20 LODRS 4-1 No Problem Raceway, Belle Rose, LA
Feb. 18-20 LODRS 7-1 Firebird International Raceway, Chandler, AZ
Feb. 24-27 NHRA O’Reilly Auto Parts Winternationals, Pomona, CA

March 4-6 LODRS 2-3 South Georgia Motorsports Park, Cecil, GA
March 4-6 LODRS 4-2 Houston Raceway Park, Houston, TX
March 10-13 NHRA Tire Kingdom Gatornationals, Gainesville, FL (PSM)
March 18-20 JEGS NHRA Cajun SPORTSnationals* Belle Rose, LA

April 1-3 NHRA SummitRacing.com Nationals, Las Vegas, NV
April 14-17 NHRA 4-Wide Nationals, Concord, NC
April 15-17 LODRS 4-3 Texas Motorplex, Ennis, TX
April 29-May 1 NHRA O’Reilly Auto Parts Spring Nationals, Houston, TX (PSM)
April 29-May 1 LODRS 3-1 O'Reilly Raceway Park, Indianapolis, IN
April 29-May 1 LODRS 6-1* Firebird Raceway, Boise, ID

May 13-15 NHRA Summit Racing Equipment Southern Nationals, Commerce, GA (PSM)
May 13-15 LODRS 3-2 Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park, Norwalk, OH
May 13-15 LODRS 5-1 SRCA Dragstrip, Great Bend, KS
May 13-15 JEGS NHRA Pacific SPORTSnationals* Fontana, CA
May 20-22 NHRA O’Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Summer Nationals, Topeka, KS
May 20-22 LODRS 2-4 Atlanta Dragway, Commerce, GA
May 20-22 LODRS 7-2 Auto Club Famoso Raceway, Bakersfield, CA
May 27-29 LODRS 1-1 Maple Grove Raceway, Reading, PA
May 27-29 LODRS 5-2 Brainerd International Raceway, Brainerd, MN
May 27-29 LODRS 6-2 Mission Raceway, Mission, BC

June 2-5 NHRA SuperNationals, Englishtown, NJ (PSM)
June 10-12 LODRS 3-3 Route 66 Raceway, Joliet, IL
June 10-12 LODRS 4-4 Tulsa Raceway Park, Tulsa, OK
June 10-12 LODRS 7-3 Top Gun Raceway, Fallon, NV
June 17-19 NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals, Bristol, TN
June 17-19 LODRS 5-3 Bandimere Speedway, Morrison, CO
June 17-19 LODRS 6-3 Spokane County Raceway, Spokane, WA
June 23-26 NHRA Summit Racing Equipment Nationals Norwalk, OH (PSM)

July 1-3 LODRS 1-2 Lebanon Valley Dragway, West Lebanon, NY
July 7-10 NHRA United Association Route 66 Nationals, Chicago, IL (PSM)
July 15-17 LODRS 6-4 Woodburn Dragstrip, Woodburn, OR
July 22-24 NHRA Mopar Mile-High Nationals, Denver, CO (PSM)
July 22-24 LODRS 1-3 New England Dragway, Epping, NH
July 22-24 LODRS 3-4 National Trail Raceway, Columbus, OH
July 22-24 LODRS 7-4* Infineon Raceway, Sonoma, CA
July 29-31 NHRA FRAM-Autolite Nationals, Sonoma, CA (PSM)
July 30-31 LODRS 3-5* Mid-Michigan Motorplex, Stanton, MI

Aug. 5-7 NHRA Northwest Nationals, Seattle, WA
Aug. 5-7 LODRS 1-4 Atco Raceway, Atco, NJ
Aug. 12-13 LODRS 5-4 Cordova Raceway Park, Cordova, IL
Aug. 18-21 NHRA Lucas Oil Nationals, Brainerd (PSM)
Aug. 19-21 LODRS 1-5 Cecil County Dragway, Rising Sun, MD
Aug. 19-21 LODRS 6-5 Pacific Raceways, Seattle, WA
Aug. 26-28 LODRS 3-6 Beech Bend Raceway Park, Bowling Green, KY
Aug. 26-27 LODRS 5-5 Heartland Park Topeka, Topeka, KS
Aug. 31 – Sept. 5 NHRA Mac Tools U.S. Nationals presented by Lucas Oil, Indianapolis, IN (PSM)

Sept. 9-11 LODRS 1-6 Old Bridge Township Raceway Park, Englishtown, NJ
Sept. 9-11 LODRS 5-6 Tri-State Raceway, Earlville, IA
Sept.10-11 LODRS 6-6 Champion Raceway, Eagle Point, OR
Sept. 15-18 NHRA O’Reilly Auto Parts Nationals, Concord, NC (PSM)
Sept. 16-18 LODRS 4-5 Houston Raceway Park, Baytown, TX
Sept. 22-25 NHRA AAA Texas Fall Nationals, Dallas, TX (PSM)
Sept. 23-25 JEGS NHRA Northern SPORTSnationals* Columbus, OH
Sept. 29 - Oct. 2 NHRA Keystone Nationals, Reading, PA (PSM)

Oct. 7-9 LODRS 4-6 Thunder Valley Raceway Park, Noble, OK
Oct. 7-9 LODRS 7-5 Southwestern International Raceway, Tucson, AZ
Oct. 14-16 NHRA Arizona Nationals, Phoenix, AZ (PSM)
Oct. 14-16 LODRS 2-5 Silver Dollar Raceway, Reynolds, GA
Oct. 27-30 NHRA Las Vegas Nationals, Las Vegas, NV (PSM)

Nov. 4-6 LODRS 7-6 The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Las Vegas, NV
Nov.10-13 NHRA Automobile Club of Southern California Finals, Pomona, CA (PSM)

* Top Alcohol classes not contested

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That first Atco race in late march early april was a national open right?
So it would not be on the div schedule?

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Oops! Sorry just went back to 2010 saw the schedule. My apologies!

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Bob Orme, They changed the schedule to day for division 5. Great Bend, Ks. is in May not April. Tom

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Thanks Tom,

I fixed it.

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Look at the dates. YOu have Maple Grove at the end of May and the weekend after that is Englishtown national event. Then there are three weeks off, and then Lebanon Valley.

A few weeks ago, people were complaining about the time off in July. Now there is a race at the end of July. People were complaining about the Atco race in October. Now there is no Atco race in October.

Jim

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For eight out of the past 10 years, Div 1 had 7 races. It had 7 races as recently as 2009.


The Dutch is on the same weekend every year.

Jim

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Jim ,I realize that there are gaps for the D1 Nat events, but scheduling Epping on the same weekend as Columbus is totally inconsiderate of racers budgets.
Now to get eight races we need to travel considerably farther.
BTW , the way the weather has been in the Northeast the last two weekends,Atco in November would have a great choice!.
I'm not suprised that Atco has only one race next year.....Joe Sway has experianced a substantial loss of participation at the Fall race.....He could probably make more profit with a Bracket race on that date.

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I just talked with my mother told her about what I had to say why we dont sponsor anymore divisional shes says Bill Holt said he was gonna start charging us by the foot fro our rig.Sounds like he was jealous ..What a azz clown jealousy destroys period ...

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How do you put Lebanon and N.H. kind of back to back..
Lebanon on 4th July just sucks as usual..
I'll run one and not the other..
Maybe run Columbus instead. Ouch

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I do agree with Tom with the Epping and Columbus the same weekend is kind of insane because they are about the same amount of time driving for them both....Tom is prob closer to Columbus then us (7hours to Epping and 8 hours to Columbus) plus the way things look right now the weekend before Epping/Columbus will be open. It looks like we will do the local stuff and see where that takes us and focus more on masga stuff. When is the National Open schedule supposed to be released?

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Yeah that is definitely a shame - it closes out the option of squeezing an out of division race for D1 & D3 racers......
Other than that though I actually like the D1 schedule. More races in the warmer weather equates to less potential weather problems and more opportunity for rescheduling if it should be necessary.

What I don't understand is why D1 does not have a Jegs Sportsnational race.

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Angelo,

I have asked the same question or just make the Dutch a Sportsnational event. It usually draws a decent amount of cars and has everything except TAFC & TAD. Make it a sportsnational for the D-1 guys since we only have 2 Nationals until 2012 when Epping joins the mix of National Events.

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Call the DUTCH anything but just keep it with sportsman cars only WITHOUT the Alcohol cars and the CIRCUS acts.

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I don't know what track availability is for both tracks.

Look for a 7th D-1 Lucas Oil Race coming soon.

Jim

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Jim can predict the future...lol. Hmmm I wonder what track it will be? I can only think it would be another Atco or maybe Numidia?

Does anyone know when the IHRA schedule will be announced? I know they have tickets on sale for the 1st 2 Nitro Jams of 2011 at Palm Beach and State Capitol but, no schedule yet.

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James, it actually makes sense logistically. The D1 staff can leave the equipment at the next track without hauling all over the division.

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I agree 100%, The Dutch is an excellent race the way it is. Sportsnationals would be great in the fall when it is cool but don't bring in the leakers.