CLASS RACER FORUM - View Single Post - I'm confused about IHRA's Sportsman friendliness

Toby Lang · 02-14-2011, 05:45 PM

Michael,

My initial reply to you was in response to your saying it was ridiculous how they were only in the 3rd round of SG at 4PM. One reason for that is they ran behind schedule on Saturday so they postponed the first round of eliminations for the index classes until Sunday morning.

Using your formula, how long should it take to run 375 cars with each class getting four time runs except for Stock and Super Stock which got three? My rough guess says about 21-22 hours. Probably a lot more when you take into consideration how long it takes to run the Alcohol cars sometimes. For instance, on Sunday DRC posted the first round winners of TS at 12:54 PM. The next class was TAD. Their first round of eliminations was posted at 2:24 PM.

From what I can tell on DRC, they completed the race in about 27 hours. That isn't too bad, is it? Also, the more cars you have the more likely it is that you will run behind schedule, right?

I haven't been to too many NHRA races that weren't running behind schedule. Like I said before, if you plan on running NHRA, running behind schedule is par for the course.

-Toby

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Toby Lang VIP Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Auburn, WA Posts: 2,133 Likes: 2 Liked 2 Times in 1 Post	Re: I'm confused about IHRA's Sportsman friendliness Michael, My initial reply to you was in response to your saying it was ridiculous how they were only in the 3rd round of SG at 4PM. One reason for that is they ran behind schedule on Saturday so they postponed the first round of eliminations for the index classes until Sunday morning. Using your formula, how long should it take to run 375 cars with each class getting four time runs except for Stock and Super Stock which got three? My rough guess says about 21-22 hours. Probably a lot more when you take into consideration how long it takes to run the Alcohol cars sometimes. For instance, on Sunday DRC posted the first round winners of TS at 12:54 PM. The next class was TAD. Their first round of eliminations was posted at 2:24 PM. From what I can tell on DRC, they completed the race in about 27 hours. That isn't too bad, is it? Also, the more cars you have the more likely it is that you will run behind schedule, right? I haven't been to too many NHRA races that weren't running behind schedule. Like I said before, if you plan on running NHRA, running behind schedule is par for the course. -Toby Last edited by Toby Lang; 02-14-2011 at 06:03 PM.