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Originally Posted by 1320racer
as I stated in one of these threads, NOTHING is perfect except for my wife  . I'm sure if you polled every NHRA Sportsman Racer in the lanes at every event as to things they'd like to see changed, you'd get 100s of suggestions if not more and the responses would vary depending on the class they compete in. I agree with Dan's comment below, as my son was not allowed to enter the MG National event on Tuesday morning despite 9 withdrawals IIRC due to the weather on Tuesday that didn't show on Monday when he tried to get in.
I'm pretty sure most would like to race for more $ but they don't want to pay more to enter but raise the quotas to accommodate those not willing to put the time, expense and work in at divisional events to accumulate the necessary grade points to run in the Pro's show, I say NO!!
What would I like see changed?...I'd like to see the NHRA lower the index of throttle stop classes by 1 second. A high 8 second dragster was fast in the early 90s but in 2019, almost unheard of and most are killing at least 1 second and many far more in a class that is dominated by 7 second dragsters. Same can be said for SG and S/ST, most there too are killing at least 1 second.
I'm interested in somebody listing their opinion on the improvements that would be beneficial to EVERY NHRA Sportsman Racer. |
I agree that the .90 indexes should be lowered. Maybe not a full second but at least .50. that would put them on the stop for less time and the big bog at the starting line would not be so noticeable and seem like more of a heads up class. The ship has sailed on those classes as far as being a heads up category in the present format.
One thing that would be beneficial to all sportsman racers that want to attend some national events would be to give some preferential treatment to the home division racers. I too traveled plenty of miles and burned a lot of diesel to get 6 grade points and could not get in the Gators that is less than 200 miles from the house. It just does not make sense to have racers traveling thousands of miles to take the place of racers that are in the home division and have run every divisional race that is offered in their home division. You can only claim points from a limited amount of national events any way. Another thing is the provisional spots should never be counted toward the quota. we would all like to see the quota raised to allow more racers to participate and also there would be more heads up runs and more cars for class eliminations at the races that they do run class.