Las Vegas Points Race Schedule

[Brett Brown]

Has anybody else looked at the schedule (see Pacific Division tab) that has been put out for the division 7 points race in Las Vegas?
Most categories are only scheduled to get 2 qualifying runs!
Once again the Sportsman racer is getting screwed!
Once upon a time, we got 4 qualifying runs. Then it was reduced to 3. Now 2?
Is anybody aware of a reason for the scheduling of only 2 qualifying runs?
This is a bunch of B.S. It is one thing for us to get treated like second class citizens at a National event, but the last I checked the Divisional race was for just us lowly Sportsman racers!
I strongly recommend that all division 7 members (and anyone else coming to this race) call our division directors office and voice your opinion. If they get away with it, this may become the norm.

[BobUnkefer]

Is Thursday a test-n-tune day? If so, from when to when? With only 2 qualifying laps some Thursday time would be nice, course it burns another vacation day...... and there aren't many left this time of year.

Thanks,

Unk

[david ring]

Brett,

You want to hear about how little they care about racers at that points meet. Three years ago Lee Zane got married on the Friday night of that race, yet they made him one of the designated pairs for stock the next morning starting at 7:30. Their message was congrats Lee on your wedding, now just be reading to be one of the first three pairs out at 7:30 in the morning.

Honest to God-I'm not making this up!

[Bill Edgeworth]

I will probably get thrashed by you guys for saying this; I think we could stand to cut the Division 7 staff a bit of slack on this, its one of, if not the biggest divisional in the country. Isn’t it close to 1000 cars? I can recall getting more than 2 qualifying passes in the past but I seem to recall us being called to the lanes at 6:30 in the morning!. They do have 12 hours of operation scheduled for Friday and Saturday.

[Julie Jordan]

Originally Posted by david ring

Brett,

You want to hear about how little they care about racers at that points meet. Three years ago Lee Zane got married on the Friday night of that race, yet they made him one of the designated pairs for stock the next morning starting at 7:30. Their message was congrats Lee on your wedding, now just be reading to be one of the first three pairs out at 7:30 in the morning.

Honest to God-I'm not making this up!

At Vegas, round 1 of stock is usually always at 7:30 AM. In any event, there is a schedule posted so we all know what time we should be ready to race. Those of us that get to the lanes on time are always waiting on those who don't (and it's usually the same people race after race! ) We're there to race. If your social calendar doesn't coincide with the racing schedule then perhaps you shouldn't be there? Nothing against Lee but I like the designated pairing set up. It gets the action started when it should. I wish they did it at the national events.

[Tom P]

I went to the Vegas divisional a couple years ago, it was a pretty full day and the cars were paired up in the lane in the dark before dawn. I think it was 7am rather than 7:30 and that's when the first two did their burnouts not when they call you.
But in between Stock and Super Stock we had to suffer something like three and half hours of Super Gas and Super Comp. Must have been 200+ SC dragsters. I went across the street after watching the Force girls run and toured the Shelby facility for an hour and a half then stopped in the warehouse area for a bit where a Dyno Day was going on with 900hp Subarus (street driven!) and after eating there were still around 50 SC left to run. The nearly 100 SS cars took about 5 minutes or just seemed that way.
They were still running alky cars well after dark when i left.

[Isaac Zane]

D1 generally only gets three qualifiers on a normal good weather race, two shots isn't much different! It's the end of the year, you should be ready. Adjust accordingly! One is probably sufficient! Time shots are highly over-rated for those who are prepared. Look at it this way, it saves you fuel!

[tim worner]

I forgot what the schedule was when I was there but I do remember that I lost 5th round and got a whole $75 dollars round money. Yes 5th round.

[david ring]

Originally Posted by Julie Jordan

Nothing against Lee but I like the designated pairing set up. It gets the action started when it should. I wish they did it at the national events.

In comp there are always designated pairs at national events and D1 has been using them in comp at points races as well-but with all the cars there, it would have been nice if somebody could have seen that Lee was not one of the first three pairs out!

[Brett Brown]

Here is the response I received from Division 7 Director Mike Rice.
"How about 3 days and 800 cars? You figure out how to do it better and be done at a decent hour each day, especially Sunday. I think I've bee more than fair to all racers, this is just something that happens at this event, and the track is not willing to run a 4 day event (like we did 2 years ago). Without that, there is no possible way to get 3 hits, unless we run until 3AM like they did at the old Vegas track. I REFUSE to put racers in jeopardy with conditions like we get late in the evening at that time of year.

I do not agree with this race being scheduled the week before the Finals, as it becomes a last ditch effort race for out of division racers and obviously prevents us from getting our normally scheduled 3 qualifying runs.
I, for one, will be choosing to make the car count 799 and save the $500+ it would cost me to attend this race. Good luck to all that decide to attend!

Thank you to Mike Rice for taking the time to respond to my e-mail.