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Old 01-11-2020, 09:21 PM   #3
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Default Re: Just talkin' here #4

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Originally Posted by MikeMoller View Post
That was the IHRA format basically, and it went down the tubes. Only IHRA race that had spectators (and a LOT of them) was at Budd's Creek couple of years ago, they had brought in some match racing, a guy on a jet skate board, and something else. Place was really packed, I talked to the owners when I got paid (semi's) and we agreed hadn't seen a crowd like that since the old match race days.

If there was a 'sportsman' only show, it would have to be 'spiffed up' somehow and ADVERTISED, not gonna work as a pure standalone.
I was at that race.
Never understood why IHRA did not repeat that format?
The spectators were coming over to talk and look at our cars.
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