Re: Anyone going to San Antonio????????
Mr. Blackmon. I like to deal in fact, not overinflated talk. The facts on how much yall claimed hasn't been posted yet. You can say $6,000, then $5,500 all you want. Don't make it fact. If you were to wait until the facts came out and then posted, It would carry a lot more weight with me. I just can't believe you can claim $2,500-$1,100 more than the people who claimed on the other two nitro jams. I could be wrong.
Another fact is that you haven't been to any Crandall, Lufkin, or Baton Rouge IHRA race, and then you tell me I'm silly because I won't drive to San Antonio from Lafayette LA because the Risk vs. Reward isn't there compared to other races. I don't believe there has been a Blackmon car at any race besides San Antonio in the last 8 years, but all of us are crazy for not supporting IHRA. Go ahead and say you won't be at Baton Rouge this weekend because your car is broken (sorry for your misfortune), but that doesn't explain why you weren't there for the Nitro Jam earlier this year. I can only assume you weren't there because you ain't traveling for a race that’s not worth the potential reward.
WE (us who go to more than one track a year) have to pick which races are worth the time off and money spent and wear on our cars and rigs. If IHRA is paying less than NHRA, even though its usually 1-2 rounds less, it isn’t worth it when you figure all risk and rewards in. It isn’t just about money. Lord knows we don’t do it for money, but if IHRA would increase the purse substantially, it would bring a lot of cars over which would make the non-money reward greater also. IHRA has all the ingredients to take over sportsman racing besides the motivating factor to draw large car counts. That was my point. It wasn’t “rounds vs money is better in IHRA.” That goes away when more cars show.
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