IHRA Mooresville Reschedule idea

[Tracy Robbins]

What a weird weekend at Mooresville w/ 46 deg. temps, rain, pretty miserable. As we sat around our pit Saturday running through ideas as to when this race would be rescheduled the idea came up that one of our other division 9 events (Piedmont since it's the next event) should be made into a "double" race weekend. It seems IHRA is always promoting that they are sportsman friendly in division 1,2,4, & 5 by reducing travel/expense and giving these guys/girls 3 race weekends to get 6 races. Divsion 9 is very strong in regards to car count and tracks so we don't get double event weekends, but the racers have the expense of traveling and taking extra weekends away from home to get in the same number of points races. There are several things IHRA should consider w/ the posted rescheduled date: 1) NHRA national event in Commerce that weekend 2) Farmington has a $50,000 bracket race that weekend 3) MOST IMPORTANTLY the expense to the racers of going back to Mooresville! Personally, I am having to really take in consideration the expense of racing divsion 9 or IHRA/NHRA at all. The current reschedule plan for Mooresville will cost the racers many thousands of dollars to return...plus the car count will be down as I know of quite a few racers entered at Atlanta. On the flip side, if Piedmont was changed to a double event, the car count may increase as they may draw racers from division 1, 2, and 3. I may be wrong but it seems as though it would be a financial burden to Mooresville to have to restaff for another 2-3 day event. Obviously, I'm not privy to all the particulars of running a division race (payout, track fee's, etc...) I would just like IHRA to take a look at helping division 9 racers save on travel expense for once and show us they can be "sportsman friendly" to us also! Just my .02 cents so flame away or voice your support.