I'm confused about IHRA's Sportsman friendliness

[Ed Wright]

Legend, at a div race exactly who is watching the SHOW? The stands are empty.

[Michael Beard]

Originally Posted by Ed Wright

Legend, at a div race exactly who is watching the SHOW? The stands are empty.

This is an issue in both sanctioning bodies. Just because tracks fail to promote their events does not mean that there is not a show to be seen. Several years ago, Mooresville bothered to spend $2K on radio and sold 1,500 1-day passes on that Sunday alone, at $20/head. Don't know what they did for promotion, but we had a great crowd at Union County's Pro-Am last year. Norwalk chooses a different scheme, and its results are legendary. One thing's for sure: No promotion, no spectators.
"Your Mileage May Vary"

[Brandon Peterson]

I think maybe the reason for upping the purse for the T/S and T/D cars at the nationals was probably done to whisk in the more exspensive faster cars so they could have there quick 8 shootouts...im not saying I haven't seen some super stickers out there that prob cost more than a T/S car but I guess we all have to deal with it atleast they did up all purses at natls and are having 2 5K races this year..if you look at the divisional payouts T/S and T/D get 20$ more first rd and 10$ more rd 3 and up 100 more to runner up than ss and 400 more to won than ss. So it kinda looks like the choice to raise the purse at nationals was to draw in faster cars make a 32 car field harder to qualify in and have a quick 8 shootout...but I don't know im just saying could be the reason

[danny waters sr]

Originally Posted by Brandon Peterson

I think maybe the reason for upping the purse for the T/S and T/D cars at the nationals was probably done to whisk in the more exspensive faster cars so they could have there quick 8 shootouts...im not saying I haven't seen some super stickers out there that prob cost more than a T/S car but I guess we all have to deal with it atleast they did up all purses at natls and are having 2 5K races this year..if you look at the divisional payouts T/S and T/D get 20$ more first rd and 10$ more rd 3 and up 100 more to runner up than ss and 400 more to won than ss. So it kinda looks like the choice to raise the purse at nationals was to draw in faster cars make a 32 car field harder to qualify in and have a quick 8 shootout...but I don't know im just saying could be the reason

Brandon , Did Homer try my converter yet ?

[Brandon Peterson]

Originally Posted by danny waters sr

Brandon , Did Homer try my converter yet ?

Danny i really dont think he has yet he is covered up and last i had talked to him he hasnt had anytime to mess with his race cars....if you need it back i can let him know

[Hagen Gary]

I did a little more "Homework"
Take the 5 fastest SS cars by E.T. at that event.
SS/BM Larry Cummings, Hammond LA, '06 Cavalier 8.368
SS/AM Brad Plourd, Maple Valley WA, '05 Cavalier 8.568
SS/BM Kevin Helms, Schriever LA, '95 Achieva 8.604
SS/BS Byron Latino, St. James LA, '09 G5 8.831
SS/CM Slate Cummings, Hammond LA, '08 Cavalier 8.857

Now take the entire field of 15 T/S cars at that event, and using that fancy math again, you get an avg. of 7.399333, or lets just call that 7.40.

So, 30% of the SS field are within .94-1.45 secs. from qualifing MID-WAY through the T/S pack? Larry is less than a second from the #6 spot! They do that with 1/2-1/3 the Cubic Inches, no laughing gas or turbo/SC, weighing 3-500 lbs more, in a factory produce(Not all fiberglassed out) body. One of them even does it with 1 carb. Nevermind the Hemi's that are right behind the mods in E.T. They do it with more Cubic Inches than the mods, but weigh a bit more and do it with 1960's Factory Parts!

Yeah, You T/S boys "Lay it Down" allright. I'm impressed!
I wonder how easy it is leaving off of the top bulb.

[Randall Klein]

easy, Hagan, don't have a stroke....you got it right but you'll never convince the TS TD Bracket crowd, they just don't get it...like my partner says: "anybody can put a big engine in a little car....it means nothing"

somebody, somewhere has a bigger engine in a littler car

try 265 CI at 3700 lbs

[danny waters sr]

Originally Posted by Brandon Peterson

Danny i really dont think he has yet he is covered up and last i had talked to him he hasnt had anytime to mess with his race cars....if you need it back i can let him know

Nah , just wondering ....You may need it in that new ride you bought .. (A-ha ,i caught you )Mr SS/GT??

[Brandon Peterson]

Originally Posted by danny waters sr

Nah , just wondering ....You may need it in that new ride you bought .. (A-ha ,i caught you )Mr SS/GT??

you know i didnt think about that danny i guess we will see how it runs once we get it back together... its in a million pieces right now waiting on rods to come in and trans parts we also took about 50 pounds of wood out of the car i dont know how that thing made it through tech...

Hagan what year model motor do you claim in your ss/gt car me and my dad just invested in our first super stocker im just trying to figure out which class is the best to run...i hoping to catch a few of my first nhra races this year schedule willing that is ihra d9 is really good for me in north carolina my longest tow to a points race is going to be around 2 hours or less..but they **** us on nationals this year in this area

[Ed Carpenter]

Originally Posted by Michael Beard

This is an issue in both sanctioning bodies. Just because tracks fail to promote their events does not mean that there is not a show to be seen. Several years ago, Mooresville bothered to spend $2K on radio and sold 1,500 1-day passes on that Sunday alone, at $20/head. Don't know what they did for promotion, but we had a great crowd at Union County's Pro-Am last year. Norwalk chooses a different scheme, and its results are legendary. One thing's for sure: No promotion, no spectators.
"Your Mileage May Vary"

ADRL gives out 20, 30 thousand tickets or whatever it is to go see their races. what they don't tell you is that it's 20 bucks per car to park. If you pile 6 or 7 in a car it's still a deal. Ed