1/8 mile Open-Music City
 

Anyone know any results from this race?

Re: 1/8 mile Open-Music City
 

Below is a link to the results from the track website. Based on the D2 Facebook it looks like they ran Stock/Super Stock as a combo.

http://www.musiccityraceway.com/saturdayresults.htm

Re: 1/8 mile Open-Music City
 

Thank you, Mr. Sealey

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Was a bit surprised they ran the first one at Music City, deep in the heart of NHRA legal cars as opposed to the Carolinas which would have drawn some crate motor cars. Think Rich was attempting to meet a need with this series and hopefully will draw more cars in the subsequent races.

In any event congrats to Marcus Widuch, apparently the apple didn’t fall far from the tree.

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Unfortunately sounds like the support isn't there yet. I'm sure it will ramp up into something big.

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There was talk that NHRA will try to make a 2 year commitment to see how it develops. The series was put together after the regular season started, so there wasn't any time to get contingency sponsors. The 1/8 mile divisional race at Galot was used as an example. First year was a little over 100 cars. Second year was over 200 and 3rd year was over 300.

The heat may have kept some cars away and somewhat of a shorter shutdown than many tracks may have influenced the faster car attendance, particularly TS and TD.

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My personal opinion.... I think a lot of people stayed away because it was held a MCR. The combo there used to be awesome with 60+ cars there. But track prep and a few other things pissed off a lot of racers and they started going elsewhere. Even the weekly bracket race is very weak (no support) and there are a lot of racers in this area.

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I live about 25 minutes from MCR. My neighbor, who LOVES drag racing drove to the track and just turned around after hearing about the lousy turn out.

I personally haven't been to this track in 10 years simply because the car count is always so low it's just not worth watching.

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Being that this was an NHRA National Open I would expect Rich would make sure the track was presentable. I would like to hear from someone in attendance who can attest to the tracks condition. Sorta sounds like more racer excuses to me.

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I was there no stick cars were hooking at all, I am A A / s there were no other a,b, or c cars there they probly knew better! First round I had a comp bye opponent probly got smart and left an Nhra official saw my run trying to keep it off the guard rail thru 1 and 2 gear and told my crew man he was going to fix it! Where was he all day? My next run was the best it only spun thru low gear! My et varied 3 tenths ! I raced there in 1971 it was a great track then hooked every pass and packed house. I took my grade point and went home don't plan on going back unless I got a slow car but that's not going to happen . I've got a need for speed!

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Seemed like a nice facility. Not a lot of cars overall. I think 23 total in the combo and about half were IHRA combos. People at the track were friendly. It was my first time going to music city. If you have an IHRA combo and you don’t go to all of these d2 races, then forever hold your peace.
It was hot and I didn’t have the hook figured out, but I am sure I could adjust the car more to fit the conditions. I am not a huge 1/8 mole fan either. For me, I was hunting for a grade point and I got it. I also think the effort of even trying something different to solve a problem should be commended. Is there any other division going out of their way to invite IHRA cars? I am not aware of any.

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Duly noted.

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Track was fine for me. I said this race would be a flop when they announced it. Not a fast car friendly track (shut down), locals will not buy a number for one race, no contingencies.
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I don't want to be completely negative except for the track prep everything else was ok and I'm glad Nhra is trying something out of the box there was plenty of paved parking and trees around but it was hot 4000da !

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I was there with my stick car and found the track prep very good especially for a track as hot as it was. And hats off to the guy running the water box his help was great. Went 5.80s with over 80 run tires.

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Big tire car , right? Ronnie Magart the Hoosier man said all the Stocker stick cars were having problems

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Yes it was a 14/32 but they are M/Ts. And I didn't run the same shock and clutch setting that I would have if the track surface had been cooler.