Div 2 Pts Meet @ South Ga.

[BobOrme]

Originally Posted by A100

Posted on another forum by SGMP
"Ok guys I was going to keep my mouth shut but those of you that know me will understand thats hard for me to do.Here is the story it takes 330 cars to make payout. Having said that our car count was around 330 but of that only 301 were paid entries. Alochol has a payout of approx. $15000.00 but we do not collect any entry from them since the majority of them having gold silver or bronze cards so we eat that.Cost of an NHRA race is less just say twice or more of what Ronnie has said. They also get more on top of that for anything over 300 cars. We have made several attempts to work out some type of compromise with differant dates and other options but with little success.So please understand when I tell you it is not because we would not love to host the Divisional event at our faciltiy from a fincinal stand point it just does not work and this is not only the view point of our track but serveral others."

I suspected as much. That's what I figured went I saw the shorter schedule in some divisions for 2010. The check a track cuts and gives to the sanctioning body for the privilege of hosting a divisional event is over 10k. Some tracks just can't afford to gamble on taking a loss from hosting a divisional.

[MacNicol Racing]

I spoke with Roland on fri. about all this and he told me that he was getting tired of being put at the tail end of an already too busy schedule at the begining of the year. You have 3 divisionals and then the Gators within 2 months and then his race. He looked at it like everyone was either broke or gone back up north. He proposed theat NHRA let him hold a double race with NO alcohol on sunday (which I think would be a great idea) or move his race towards the end of the year. When he proposed the double race the response was "why would I do that". He would write NHRA another check for $16k and they wouldnt have to go anywhere. Why wouldnt they do that? He asked to tell everyone send an e-mail the the division and tell how they felt. I personaly dont think it will do anything but I sent mine already. If we can gripe on here we can gripe in an e-mail. Kevin

bholt@nhra.com

[Casey Miles]

Here's another aspect about car counts and doing business, when the economy is in the dumps NHRA raises the entry fee to points races. I was one car count you will not get if they don't lower the entry fee or make the entry fee reasonable to the purse. To pay $160 to win $1k is totally stupid, when I can race locally for a $40 entry to win $650. I've been racing Stock since 1974 and never have I seen such greed in all that time since now. It sucks that I will have to attend at least one poinst race to get a grade point to race the Gator Nats as a vacation.
Don't misunderstand, I truely love Stock, but you have to draw lines in the sand at some time to try to get your point accross.

Casey Miles
248H

[Woodro Josey]

Kevin, the only problem with sending e-mails to Bill Holt, he will not read them, they will probably go to his spam folder!

[MacNicol Racing]

Originally Posted by Woodro Josey

Kevin, the only problem with sending e-mails to Bill Holt, he will not read them, they will probably go to his spam folder!

Woodro, youre probably right. Maybe I should have put "the money i owe you" in the subject line to ensure he would atleast open it.

[dhmoore]

OR
lets see if SGMP will have a big pay out for all of the sportsman racers, 3 or 2 races insted of 2 days of sitting and 1 day of raceing.

take the $150.00 entry just like before, He dosnt have to pay NHRA there extortion money. then have our own (div.) race, all the classes, new SOUTHEAST RACERS ASSN., trophys that mean something

We all know that if the entry is fare, the pay out is fare, the racers will show up,

Its just a matter of time for this kind of raceing to start we dont need BIG BROTHER to have a good time and race with friends....

NHRA has already cut there thorats, now lets let them bleed to death

lets show up altogether at SGMP in the fall, and let MR. HOLT see we dont need him or his ORG.

[Nitro Joe Jackson]

Anybody have a final qualifying sheet from Valdosta in Stock or final ones for T/S, T/D please fax them to me. I'm in limbo waiting for them
Fax 775-743-8699

[art leong]

I was mad as hell. At them for dropping Valdosta It is one of the 2 points races within 200 miles for me.
But when I look at the bigger picture. It doesn't hurt as much. Don't get me wrong I will do whatever I can to get it reinstated.
One of the main reasons I go to points races to get event credits to get to national events.
Well last year Indy was the only race that closed with more than one grade point (and that was only in superstock). So dropping a points meet won't hurt that much.
I'm hoping there will be more track or association run meets. They are more fun and a whole lot more bang for the buck.