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All this bragging about car counts in NHRA going on why dosent Div. 2 have as many cars as Div. 1? 91 cars at English Town vs 35 cars at Atlanta ! Id call it a population difference. and the fact that if you fell down in Div. 1 you most likely would hit you head on another drag strip...LOL.

I know for the last several years the schedule that DIV 2 has had. Was and is not "racer" friendly!! Plus the fact that moving the Orlando race to Atlanta and Valdosta canceling its race does not help. Also like X-Tech said there is not as many tracks in the southeast as there used to be. Div 1 has so many more tracks, machine shops etc.

88 stockers qualified in Earlville IA

Vinny nap before he passed away told my dad 30% of US population live within 4 hours of his track at Englishtown, dont know if thats true or not, but probably is.

No Problem is in the "boonies" far away from a population center.....BUT check out the entries next weekend !!
A lot of track owners could learn a lot from a trip to this track........... :-)

Terry it's called "The Rosie Effect". It will take many years for "Rosie", a.k.a. Bill Holt, plight to subside in D2.

Boy, it would be nice to be able to go to a Divisional with the car count they have this week-end in Division 1. But hey, they can't even get more than 50% for the National stop in Charlotte next week. What does that tell you? One of the nicest tracks on the circuit. Hopefully S/SS will sign up before the deadline. Maybe the grade points should go away during the chase?

Butch

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Originally Posted by CycloneFE (Post 209609)

88 stockers qualified in Earlville IA

94 total. Some more showed up Saturday I guess.

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Originally Posted by butch8908 (Post 209842)

Butch, I have heard thru the grapevine that many stock and superstock racers from other divisions were unhappy with unfriendly treatment and lack of courtesy they've recieved from employees at Bruton's track at past Nat. events there.....Maybe that's why many are staying away from Concord? Just my thoughts.....WJ

Atlanta had about 1/2 the usual number of cars. NHRA, and especially Division 2, have done a rotten job of scheduling for a long time. They have the Bowling Green points race, Indy, Atlanta points race, and Charlotte on consecutive weekends. A ton of cars would normally go to at least 3 of the 4 races, if they had just a little down time in there. A lot of people go to Bowling Green, then go straight to Indy, that's twelve days straight if you get to Bowling Green on Thursday evening, go to Indy and stay until Tuesday. If you went to Atlanta on Thursday evening, and stayed until Sunday night, then went to a 4 day :rolleyes: race at Charlotte on Wednesday evening, you'd have two days at home between them. That's another week, not counting any travel time, so you'd have near twenty days away, with not much down time at home and work between those two stretches. Even if you work for yourself, it is hard to be away from home and work that much in that period of time. If you work for someone else, it is even harder.

It's not much different than the crappy Division 2 schedule over all. They have a lot of races right together in February and March, in Florida (as if there was only one state in Division 2). Then the three National Events (who's idea was it to have Bristol in June or July, there's not any air there in April or May, never mind June or July). Then a dead space for the rest of the summer, then Atlanta and Charlotte on consecutive weekends in September, followed by Reynolds in October (and they moved it to the middle of October instead of near the end of the month). They're asking people to take a lot of time off in short periods, plus, there's not a single Division race in Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, or South Carolina, the only Division races are in Georgia and Florida.

Not only that, they put Bristol and Norwalk on top of each other, among a lot of other scheduling foolishness. You'd think NHRA never looked at a calender and a road map when they made the schedule, and the Divisions scheduled their races just to piss each other off.