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I will tell you one thing that drove me away from IHRA was the location of the tracks. For where I live I would love to run IHRA, 2 races in one weekend and pretty good payout for the entry fee. I mean some people are dead-set on having to win a wally and will only run NHRA but, for myself and dad we have 4 NHRA tracks within an hour and 45 minutes. The closest IHRA track for us is MDIR at a little over 4+ hour drive and the next closest is Empire and Keystone at a little over 6 hours. So for me it's a no brainier to go and run NHRA. I also saw that they said something about low car counts. I've found out in my series that you can't schedule something on top of an NHRA event, no matter what!! A few times they had scheduled MDIR on top of the Bristol NHRA National or the Empire Pro Am on top of the Cecil LODRS Race. The problem is IHRA releases their schedule months behind NHRA and it would be smart to see where NHRA has their events before you put one a few hundred miles away on top of it and make people choose. It's a real shame to see this happen and I hope if anything the little series that support these racers with odd combos will step up and welcome them. It could be a HUGE boost for the little series, so get out and support them!!