IHRA Finals/Tourn of Champions

Bill Howell · 12-06-2008, 01:35 PM

This was the same reasoning that IHRA would not let you run a different car when they first started the 8 car points leaders run off for the $5000 winner take all purse they had in the early 90's.
They didn't want someone borrowing a fast car to take advantage of a heads up situation in the shoot outs.
I believe it was 90 or 91 when a racer entered someone else's faster car when he had Cleo Chandler first round in the shoot out and it would have been heads up. Robert Leonard with IHRA made him run his own car. (Cleo beat him first round and won the race! She was in her 70's at the time and had 3 lights .01 or better in eliminations.)

12-06-2008, 01:35 PM	#11
Bill Howell Sponsor Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Aiken, SC Posts: 315 Likes: 28 Liked 218 Times in 61 Posts	Re: IHRA Finals/Tourn of Champions This was the same reasoning that IHRA would not let you run a different car when they first started the 8 car points leaders run off for the $5000 winner take all purse they had in the early 90's. They didn't want someone borrowing a fast car to take advantage of a heads up situation in the shoot outs. I believe it was 90 or 91 when a racer entered someone else's faster car when he had Cleo Chandler first round in the shoot out and it would have been heads up. Robert Leonard with IHRA made him run his own car. (Cleo beat him first round and won the race! She was in her 70's at the time and had 3 lights .01 or better in eliminations.)