[Jim Wahl]

Jason, I can tell you as far as the SSSSA is concerned, we had just as many races in Georgia as Florida but as of last year the Georgia racer participation fell way off. We love Reynolds but the last two races we had there we had a total of 7 GA racers participate, 48 came all the way from Florida. A pretty poor showing for the GA racers if you ask me. Even when we race at SGMP the vast majority of the racers come from Florida. Looking at the NHRA points race from last week in Atlanta confirms my stats as the same for them. It costs money to put on a race, even SSSSA races. If YOU got three times the participation in Florida that you got in Georgia, where would you put your races?

I don't think you will be seeing a points race at Orlando anytime soon unless Mr. Schaefer and Mr. Weisinger come to an amicable agreement. SGMP will probably get the date they want without Orlando in play. I don't blame Mr. Weisinger at all. What NHRA wanted him to do made no business sense. It's a shame but business is business. The individual tracks are not "not for profit" organizations, they must make a profit to stay open. Jim