Tucson Raceway has new owners

[SStockDart]

Gary, this is the response and the note I sent to IHRA



Thanks for your email, Gary. I have passed it along to the CEO and track GM.

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From: PoisonDartRacing@aol.com [mailto:PoisonDartRacing@aol.com]
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2013 9:41 PM
To: INFO - IRG
Subject: Arizona Racers



Greetings, My name is Gary Hansen, an NHRA racer. We live in the Phoenix Metro area.
I just read that you purchased the track in Tucson.....I think that is great news.

The purpose of my email is to inform you of the Speedworld dragstrip that recently closed in the Phoenix area. Since we live only a few miles from Speedworld, I was obviously disappointed to see it close. It appears to me that their are some political issues that couldn't get worked out, and the prior operator got into a pizzing contest with the county. (that never works out).....I contacted the country in hopes of keeping the track open....The response I got was that it had gone to far and their was no turning back with the current operator.

You now have the Tucson track, and El Paso (290 miles from Tucson)....If......just if, you could acquire the Speedworld track, that would give you access to over 6 million people. Additionally, many of the Southern California racers are only a few hours away.

Best of good fortune with IHRA and the Tucson track.....and maybe you would consider looking into the Speedworld facility.

Sincerely,



Gary Hansen
NHRA Super Stock 4911
NHRA Stock 4911

[Jeff Lee]

Gary H.,
If you don't have contact info for Victoria Griffey, I do.
She was track mgr @ speed world for ever. She got out before the poop hit the fan. She was not the problem, did-poop Dan M. was.
Let me know if you need her for anything. She knows the ins and outs of that track and all the legal dealings like no other!

[GarysZ24]

From one Gary H. to another, that was a great message that you sent to IRG, and I think I'll have to call Scooter Peaco to see what he thinks about it too! I'm sure he'll like the idea, and offer his .02 to IRG with regards to that possible addition to IHRA as well.

That would be awesome for IHRA to have Speedworld added on to the other tracks they now have (at least 105 sanctioned, and growing!), and it surely would give the So Cal & Nevada racers who've always come out here for NHRA races something else to spend their class racing funds on (and less of them as well I might add)! I know they're having one of their IHRA races this weekend, so I might not reach him right away, but I know he'll get back in touch with me, and who knows perhaps I could help in the contact between Victoria, and Scooter (or he could have IRG contact her once he gets a contact number or email address, that could reach her)?

After all, how would you guys/gals like knowing that for just $1.00 more than the cost of an NHRA (only) membership (which includes the now even less sportsman covering National Dragster Magazine), you can not only get an IHRA Membership (which includes Drag Review Magazine...which puts more emphasis on us sportsman racers than it does the pros), but you'd also get your competition number (for one class). When this IHRA D7 Pro-Am series gets going (2014?), you guys/gals with deeper wallets/pockets, will only have to shell out $70 bucks for those things while you're paying $125 for the same thing from the Glendora bunch who's ok with our paying for the perks the pros get to enjoy...am I the only one who thinks something is horribly wrong with that picture???

I told Scooter I'd do what I could to get the word out about this, so here I am offering more bang for our class racing dollars...after all, $165 for a grade point, no competition points, no chance at contingency money, when the other guys offer points, contingency postings, and three positions out of each Pro-Am series division to race for the World Championship, for a divisional race cost of $135 per race (Michael Beard correct me on this if I'm wrong, but if I am I know it isn't by much, as this was their entry fee last year).

You critics should ask Mark Faul how he feels about having the IHRA option...he seems to be winning there every year in their series, at various events, and he's a proven NHRA winner too!!!

[Stock726]

Interesting post today from another site:

To clarify things a little. I sent an email out to the Arizona Super Street racers asking if they wanted to race in December. I was told by Bill Schneider at Wild Horse Pass that this was when the drag strip would be finished. He said the facility is having a grand opening on October 12th but that the drag strip would just be used as a straight away for the road course.

I may just join IHRA after all; SIR is a lot closer for me than Vegas.....

[Pat Cook]

So, there be a snow balls chance in august in AZ....that maybe Speedworld ...could maybe...just maybe...

I still am looking at property in Wickenburg, that would be icing on the deal if my favorite race track was to rise from the ash.

[Jeff Lee]

Originally Posted by Stock726

Interesting post today from another site:

To clarify things a little. I sent an email out to the Arizona Super Street racers asking if they wanted to race in December. I was told by Bill Schneider at Wild Horse Pass that this was when the drag strip would be finished. He said the facility is having a grand opening on October 12th but that the drag strip would just be used as a straight away for the road course.

I may just join IHRA after all; SIR is a lot closer for me than Vegas.....

Do you have a link to the subject matter? Post here or PM me

[voltdr]

I just found this from a google search.

http://motorsportstalk.nbcsports.com...orsports-park/

Dan

[Jeff Lee]

That's all old news. I want to see the source that Stock726 is quoting from.