San Antonio Raceway: IHRA Sportsman Spectacular

[340Cuda]

Originally Posted by Chris1529

Unfortunately, it looks as if San Antonio is not IHRA country. 10 stockers, 4 superstockers, not more than 26 cars in other classes running for $ 5000????

What a shame....

I doubt if this opportunity will exist again in this part of the country.

[Michael Beard]

Congrats also to reigning IHRA Summit Super Series No-Box World Champion Matt Hawk for the Stock win... see you in Memphis!

[Michael Beard]

Wouldn't it be great is somebody had a race that was a $200 entry for $5,000 to win plus national event contingency?

[Alan Warman]

Boy that would be great, if the racers would show up. I did not go do to health reasons.
We had more stockers there in March than they had this weekend. The Super Stockers
have never been strong in division 4 but we always had a good showing in stock. I have also noticed that some of the big name racers don't go to the I.H.R.A races anymore.
So why didn't anybody go was it the bracket race format with buy-backs or what I would like to know.

[Chris1529]

as of right now, 1075 views for this thread. 26,595 views for the Maple Grove Divisional.

that about sums it up.

[HR9121]

Just my opinion, they had about what I expected except I did think they would have had a few more stock and super stock. They should concentrate their efforts in places they know they can draw cars unless they want to continue to loose their a*#. IHRA could have that race at Rockingham or any number of tracks on the east coast and draw twice as many cars. I don't know why they keep trying to go out there maybe I'm not smart enough to see the whole picture but I wish I had a super stocker because I would take the chance on the tow if they decided to have another one out there.

[philip miles]

It's a shame that more cars didn't show up to support the race, but down here in Florida, we sort of had the same problem at PBIR's IHRA points races. There weren't enough cars to really have a race. It sucked. It's the mentality that it has to be NHRA or nothing. I look at it, if you pay the right entry fee to the amount of the purse offered, I'm in. NHRA, you pay $180 to win $1k, give me a break, the local Saturday night you pay $50 to win $1k. There is something wrong with the picture. IHRA is at least in line with the entry to the purse.
Casey Miles
248H "F" NHRA STOCK

[Alan Warman]

Originally Posted by Chris1529

as of right now, 1075 views for this thread. 26,595 views for the Maple Grove Divisional.

that about sums it up.

So if I.H.R.A could get Larry and Patsy Hill to go to a race and do live reporting the
car count would go up(LOL). I wished it was that easy, hell I would pay there way, if that all it took. I mean RJ did not even go and he lives there, and they won the first race there this year. Maybe Chip is right they need to stay east of the Mississippi. Butt at least there trying to give racers a choice.

[countrypuppy4865]

I think this race would have had a much better turnout in Baton Rouge or Memphis. As stated before, they should look at races that typically have their best turnouts to host an event like this. Not to mention a lot of people don't care to race when it gets this hot.

[Chris1529]

That wasn't exactly what I meant, I was merely pointing out that there was absolutely no interest in what was going on at this race.

Originally Posted by Alan Warman

So if I.H.R.A could get Larry and Patsy Hill to go to a race and do live reporting the
car count would go up(LOL). I wished it was that easy, hell I would pay there way, if that all it took. I mean RJ did not even go and he lives there, and they won the first race there this year. Maybe Chip is right they need to stay east of the Mississippi. Butt at least there trying to give racers a choice.