Stacking at St. Louis
Have yall gotten your email about stacking at St. Louis?
AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals Participants There will be no early stacking allowed on property. Any sportsman racer arriving before 5 a.m. on Thursday, September 26th will be turned away and will need to find another location to park. There is a truck storage lot across the street behind the truck stop and other venues in the region to park. As a reminder the parking/stacking schedule is as followed for Wednesday. Sportsman Stacking will begin at 5:00 AM. Please use the gate at 1905 Collinsville Rd (near the DirtPlex). Sportsman Parking will begin at 8:00 AM. Parking will conclude at 5:00 PM. Attached is a complete schedule for the upcoming event. We appreciate your cooperation. Thank You NHRA and World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway This is absolutely ridiculous!! We are in Great Bend and had planned on getting to St. Louis and stack. Then do a little shopping and spend some money with them, but evidently they don't need our money! Seriously considering just going home from here and withdrawing. NHRA sure doesn't value their customers. Just arrive in time to give them our money and get nothing in return! Patsy |
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Patsy,
Sure seems “Penny wise, pound foolish” is all the rage everywhere one looks these days... Peter |
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more complaining
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stacking is the easy part, parking is the boondoggle and not due to the NHRA rather the first 50 racers or so into every event that save 150 spots for their friends.
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[QUOTE=1320racer;598134]stacking is the easy part, parking is the boondoggle and not due to the NHRA rather the first 50 racers or so into every event that save 150 spots for their friends.[/QU
I know how to solve that issue also by the way |
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I've already solved it when I roll in
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there is nothing "legitimate" about this latest self serving complaint, it just that infringes on his plans.
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As a former class racer, but one who still follows the sport closely, I no longer have a dog in the fight. Something always confuses me though. NHRA continues to pull this stuff and treat class racers like red-headed step-children, the racers complain (which they completely have the right to do) YET they continue to go back and support them. Quit and run NMCA. What would NHRA do if not one single class car showed up? Hard to take people's complaints seriously when they'll be at the next race continuing to take their crap. Just my 2 cents.
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[QUOTE=1320racer;598166]there is nothing "legitimate" about this latest self serving complaint, it just that infringes on his plans.[/QUOTEh
I don't know you but I do know when you were on here all the time before you were an A**. Now that you are back it is even worse and from what I understand you are just a bracket racer. Take your sheet somewhere else. |
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there's that I think I'm special cause I'm a class racer attitude. News flash, you're a bracket racer every time you put a dial in on your window.:p
you don't know me so take your sheet somewhere else |
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One year they did the same thing at the Gatornationals a few years back before they started the Baby Gators thing. Would not let anyone stack at the track. To say the least it was a cluster. We had to hunt to find a place to park two 60+ foot rigs for two days. Then there was a big traffic jam at the track when everyone showed up at 6 am to get pitted. The track had personnel there so what is the big deal. Especially when they are coming directly from another race the weekend before. They actually paid a police officer to sit there and turn the racers away 24 hours a day. Probably would have been cheaper to pay someone to manage the stacking. Lets face it most of us know how it works.
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We were at the Gators the year they sent us to Orlando and we stayed at a shopping center for a few days because the pits were flooded. Stacking and Tech used to be a shopping center near Trails when they had the Springnationals there. If they can't stack at the track maybe NHRA could at least make arrangements for a reasonable alternative.
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my money is green and good everywhere and I assume yours is too. No one is forcing anyone to compete at an NHRA event. If you don't like how they stack, park, run the event or pay the winner/runner up and requirements to collect contingency sponsor money, stop the useless complaining and negative comments about everything NHRA and do us all a favor and quit going. You won't be missed!
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1320 I think you would like being a class racer in S/SS when shoe polish is not needed.
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There is a truck storage lot across the street behind the truck stop and other venues in the region to park.
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Well ... just do what we did; put mufflers and drag radials on the "race car", buy a lawn chair, and go grow with your significant other at car shows. Not much from our end to complain about there. A whole lot cheaper too! |
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Sorry , I can't help it !
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Well we did away with the stacking problem! We drove on home last night right past the St. Louis track—687 miles. I tried to call St. Louis track, but no call back! Then I tried to call Division 3 office this the morning with no call back! I wanted to find out if after national event if ,when they relocate us to drag strip, we will be parked where we will be for the divisional or will we just stack and park later. The flyer doesn’t really say. But no answer! So I call the Galot race track where they are having a Division 2 points race this weekend and they answered the phone and my questions!! And sounded like they would be glad to see us! So we withdrew from the St. Louis debacle, where they didn’t want us anyway, and are going to Galot! Then the next weekend is Virginia for a divisional which said we can stack straight from Galot! Then on to Charlotte and Rockingham ! Looking forward to seeing our D2 friends!!
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Maybe its just me but if I had A 40FT motor home, a stacker trailer, two race cars and a nice home to return to - I find it hard to believe I would mind being inconvenienced occasionally.
But I don't - and I still would not waste my time being negative and not enjoying what I choose to do with my spare time. Ron |
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If you want to be star of the show, NHRA sportsman racing just isn't the place to be. They are not hiding from this fact. See everyone else at WWT Raceway this weekend...looking forward to a nice break from work and having some fun |
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I don't think anyone asked to be the star of the show sir just a little ****ing respect is all. They called and couldn't get no one to answer some simple questions so they have chose to go somewhere else where they feel a little more comfortable.
Glad you guys are coming to Galot and can't wait to see you and a slight feeling of relief knowing I don't have to do the reporting solo!! |
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See both of you there. And Rockingham as well.
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 Relocation of NHRA National Event sportsman participants to main pits . . . . . . . 7-9 p.m. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 Relocation of NHRA National Event sportsman participants to main pits . 10 a.m.-12 p.m. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2 Creds. & Prkg. for Lucas Oil Test & Tune participants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-7 p.m. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3 Final relocation of NHRA National Event participants . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Credentials & Pit Parking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Tech Inspection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-5 p.m. Track Operated Test & Tune . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-7 p.m. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4 Credentials & Pit Parking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 a.m.-8 p.m. Tech Inspection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 a.m.-5 p.m. Spectator Gates Open . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Time Trials & Qualifying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Top Dragster, Comp & Top Sportsman Qlfyng. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 p.m. & 6 p.m. Top Alcohol Funny Car and Dragster Qualifying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 p.m. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5 Tech Inspection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 a.m. - 10 a.m. Spectator Gates Open . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 a.m. Time Trials & Qualifying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 a.m. Sportsman Eliminations Rd 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 a.m. Top Alcohol Dragster and Funny Car Qlfyng . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 & 3 p.m. Top Alcohol Dragster and Funny Car Rd 1 Eliminations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 p.m. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6 Spectator Gates Open . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 a.m. Sportsman Eliminations Rd 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 a.m. Top Alcohol Dragster & Funny Car Rd. 2 Elims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 a.m. Complete Eliminations All Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11:30 a.ml |
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The way that reads is that the only ones who will be parked on Wed are the ones that are going to test and tune!!
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They stopped letting everyone stack at Bandimere Speedway (Dodge Mile High Nationals) 3 years ago. I bet you see this at every track (but Indy) in the next few years.
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Larry and Patsy, if my old butt remembers correctly , that's what the track did last year ! T$T parking only on Wed ....... In other words $100.00 parking fee !
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for the complainers that don't know what they are to the NHRA, racers are participants...
par·tic·i·pant a person who takes part in something not customers... cus·tom·er a person or organization that buys goods or services from a store or business. |
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