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Originally Posted by Dan Fahey
What is the Sportmans Spectacular?
I do not like that name btw..hoekie sounding !!
I remember National Races being call normal names..
Like Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring Nationals as very key National Events
Wish we could get back to those names instead of all the stuff before the names.
Dan
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You mean "What
WAS the Sportsman Spectacular."
I thought the name was appropriate, and it included the track/location it was being held at.
But what it "was" was a $5,000 to win + contingencies for ALL classes across the board regardless of entries. To cover their butt, IHRA did include a "re-entry" round, where 1st losers ran a seperate round before those winners went on to round two. But at least one had to "earn" it as opposed to a simple "buy-back" into round 2.
However, IHRA did offer the incentive that if there were 64+ cars in round one, there would be no "re-entry" round. Entry was $200.00, which was reasonable and those were one of the "Win, your in" races as a TOC qualifier. It was the IHRA version of a Sportsman Nationals. No Pro's or booked in shows.
Unfortunately, they never got over 64 cars at any of the Sportsman Spectacular races and got burned real bad at San Antonio when only a handful of cars showed up - literally! So they appear to have been discontinued for 2013 as there has been no mention of them.