[Brian VP]

I am glad that our track operators see the need for something like this but I do have 1 concern about this. A 5 race series? By my quick unofficial count from the last weekend of April through October there are 27 weekends. Your average northeast racer attends 6 NHRA divisionals and 2 NHRA national events. Throw in IHRA races that dont conflict with NHRA and just say that is at least 3 more weekends. NHRA has 2 Opens, 1 of which is at Maple Grove. Dave has 5 East Coast Stock/Super Stock races. That is possibly 18 race weekends. Now you add weekends that consist of Mother's Day, which apparently is a no-no, graduations, birthdays, etc. and there really isn't room for 5 races. Plus Maple Grove will be restricted on what dates that they can put these races because of events that they have on their own schedule like Super Chevy, ADRL, etc., etc. In a year where it only seems that it is going to cost more to go racing than it did last year, I don't know that a 5 race series is the answer. I can guarentee that if this does go on as a 5 race series I do not see another one of the "Combo in the Hill's" going on. I don't want to be the bearer of bad news but this might sound great in December but in June or July when you are standing at a gas pump paying for gas to go to a race for the 5th or 6th weekend in a row, you might have a different feeling. I know that a lot of people have put a lot of time and effort into this, and I appreciate that, but I wanted to post my concerns.

Brian Van Poppel