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Originally Posted by Chris Williams
We have at least five of these doubleheader (Sat/Sun) races in the Pacific Northwest Super Comp Association every year. They are great. And yet racer participation is on life support. We had five people show up to a race earlier this year.
The structure isn't killing this patient, TD and the desire to go in the sixes at over 200 is. So is the fact that racing in TD is easier: more ducks to shoot, a full-tree gives you bump down time, and so on. And running full out in front of a lot of people is more fun.
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The IHRA and the Midwest Super Comp series both feature double headers the MWSCS series averages about 25-28 cars the IHRA does a little better but neither is growing in number probably because they are not as prestigious or wide spread as the NHRA (they typically draw 70-80 cars at the DIV3 races and still come close to or meet their quota at the Nationals in this area.)
I believe there is a need for the Top Sportsman and Top dragster classes but I would like to see super class racing continue to grow as well.
That's one of the reasons behind my original suggestion was to keep the costs down after all that was why they started bracket and index racing to begin with but overall what I'm hearing from my peers in div. 3 is that it ain't broke and they would perfer to just leave it alone based upon the success of the NHRA in the midwest they just may be right.