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Michael Lyons · 10-29-2009, 08:06 AM

Thanks for making my point so clear Chip. Thats why the TOC isn't any fairer than any of the other ways to win a championship. It obviously favors the racers that live closest to the track that they hold it at. Which also makes it more lucrative for someone who only had to drive 100 miles to the race as opposed to those who may have drove close to a thousand. The extra days of travel are also lost wages days so basically it costs someone from say Texas nearly $2000 dollars to be able to travel to NC to race for a possible $10000, whereas someone from NC it may only cost $100. The IHRA has done a great job of spreading national events around with the additional sportsnationals at all the various tracks. It would have been quite fair using the old points system for almost anyone to challenge for the world championship this year. The TOC only drove up the costs, brutally to those who would have finished 3rd thru 10th in national points under the old system. I was always taught that loyalty was rewarded in the end, but the TOC sticks it to the loyal racers. Sorry theres only 40 of them supposedly, I think theres more than 40.. The car counts are down because of the economy and the rising costs of racing vs the dramatically reduced prize moneys available. I doubt there is any one thing that will fix this, it will either comeback in some time or we are nearing the end. I don't completely fault anyone for trying though. And I do think they had to have some kind of a paying customer race at Rockingham, they probably should have had a lil different schedule for it. Course hindsite is always 20/20 ain't it?

10-29-2009, 08:06 AM	#7
Michael Lyons Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Garden City, MI Posts: 226 Likes: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: IHRA tournament of Champions Thanks for making my point so clear Chip. Thats why the TOC isn't any fairer than any of the other ways to win a championship. It obviously favors the racers that live closest to the track that they hold it at. Which also makes it more lucrative for someone who only had to drive 100 miles to the race as opposed to those who may have drove close to a thousand. The extra days of travel are also lost wages days so basically it costs someone from say Texas nearly $2000 dollars to be able to travel to NC to race for a possible $10000, whereas someone from NC it may only cost $100. The IHRA has done a great job of spreading national events around with the additional sportsnationals at all the various tracks. It would have been quite fair using the old points system for almost anyone to challenge for the world championship this year. The TOC only drove up the costs, brutally to those who would have finished 3rd thru 10th in national points under the old system. I was always taught that loyalty was rewarded in the end, but the TOC sticks it to the loyal racers. Sorry theres only 40 of them supposedly, I think theres more than 40.. The car counts are down because of the economy and the rising costs of racing vs the dramatically reduced prize moneys available. I doubt there is any one thing that will fix this, it will either comeback in some time or we are nearing the end. I don't completely fault anyone for trying though. And I do think they had to have some kind of a paying customer race at Rockingham, they probably should have had a lil different schedule for it. Course hindsite is always 20/20 ain't it?