Spotsman Spectacular @ MIR coming soon

[Eric Merryfield]

Originally Posted by danny waters sr

Heads up or not , i will still go and support this race..
I was just making suggestions to try and cater to all involved....
We need to support this race so we can continue to have class racing and hopefully with a nice payout....
As said ,this is a trial and error deal and can be ironed out to almost perfection...
I'm in either way

Are actual Ironmans being given out for class winners? Or the plaques.

Thanks

Eric

[danny waters sr]

Originally Posted by Eric Merryfield

Are actual Ironmans being given out for class winners? Or the plaques.

Thanks

Eric

They have been being plaques and your pic taken in the winners circle for purchase

[cal]

Hello all again.

I quit racing in 1996, and came back to racing a couple years ago.
I left for several reason, money, delay boxes, buy backs ect...
Looking back I wish I had never left. I look at all the good times I missed.

Never ran a class at an IHRA or NHRA race till last year at the IHRA
PRO AM race at MIR. 1st pass on a PRO Tree and I was hooked.
(Thanks Robert Jones & Dale Koncen they talked me into coming)
I never liked the .90 index classes at all. But that has all changed.

My point here is this race may not be the norm, but we must start some
where. I admit buy backs are not my favoite thing either, but I have done
it in the past and will most likely do it again in the future.

Lets face a couple facts here,
1) It cost a lot of MONEY to put on a race like this.
2) It cost a lot of MONEY to build a race car these days.
3) It cost a lot of MONEY to travel to these races.
4) This is a GREAT payout for a class race !!!

MIR is a GREAT race track, lets all give this a try.
The more susessful this race is, the better the chance to maybe get
a sponcer to help with the purce. then next year they may not need buy
backs to secure the purce.

Thanks for all the input, I hope Royce has been reading all these post and
keeps this all in mind for next years event.

Keepem Green and Shinny Side Up
Cal HR177X

[THE LEGEND]

Cal,
Well said. I will be there with you.

Novadude,
No offense but the purist are going the way of cheater slicks and muncie 4spds.

To everyone else,
Eddie Bolton is a good guy and is definately out of his league in the marriage dept.LOL

Chip Johnson

[cal]

Thats GREAT Chip.

LOL I just hope I don't get you in the 1st rd again.

Maybe we can meet in the final

Cal HR 177X

[Greg Hill]

Guys don't get me wrong, I really hope this race is successful. I won't be there because I had hand surgery 1 1/2 weeks ago. I am planning on going to the race in Virginia in October. My concern is that the gimmicks are going to hurt car count enough to make it not so successful and the the company line is we tried and no one supported us. There are a lot of Stock and Super Stock racers within a 5 or 6 hour drive from Maryland. In an e-mail I told Scooter that i thought he could have 70-80 stockers and 60-70 super stockers without the buybacks. Are the buy backs and random pairings going to keep people away? I think they will, but we won't know until race weekend.

[novassdude]

One of the main reasons I switched to Stock was to get away from the Buy backs and electronics. I live no where close to this race but I would not support any class race that had buy backs. With the purse they have and the entry fee what it is all they need is 46 cars to make the payout. You would sure think that for $5000 to win you could get more than 46 cars to show up.

[Hagen Gary]

IHRA S/SS is Bracket racing. You just have to tow further and pay more to win less than your backyard bracket race. They hire a couple of guys to weigh you and check your fuel so it seems like its more than a footbrake race, but its not. This race is the exception to the rule as far as payout goes, but it isn't going to change the way IHRA views us. Its a 2 class bracket race to them, footbrake and handbrake. So, if you have a good footbrake or handbrake car, this looks like a good race if your in the area.

[X-TECH MAN]

I dont think anyone who isnt coming to MIR for this race for one reason or the other will be missed. Its your choice and still a free country....I think.

[THE LEGEND]

Novadude,
You and your post could be the poster child of why drag racing died.
Only need 46 cars to pay the purse.
Don't you guys realize there are more expense involved than just paying the purse. You sounded just like a typical saturday night bracket racer with that comment.
Chip Johnson