New IHRA President

[Mike Pearson]

I am not a real big fan of the two race per weekend deal. If the car count gets high enough you will be racing well past midnight. That's a real long day. If you have any weather related issues it can push the program into Monday as there is no room in the schedule for anything like that. Plus if you have a problem with your race car you will miss two of your points races at one time. I have been running the div 2 events and they are typically well run. This past weekend in Immokalee there was rain on Saturday afternoon and they attempted to run both races on Sunday simultaneously. I lost first round both races and left the track at 8 pm Sunday. They ran several more rounds that evening but had to complete the race on Monday. Even if u had won several rounds I could not have stayed on Monday due to work commitments. All in all the race was pretty well run.

[cal]

Originally Posted by Mike Pearson

I am not a real big fan of the two race per weekend deal. If the car count gets high enough you will be racing well past midnight. That's a real long day. If you have any weather related issues it can push the program into Monday as there is no room in the schedule for anything like that. Plus if you have a problem with your race car you will miss two of your points races at one time. I have been running the div 2 events and they are typically well run. This past weekend in Immokalee there was rain on Saturday afternoon and they attempted to run both races on Sunday simultaneously. I lost first round both races and left the track at 8 pm Sunday. They ran several more rounds that evening but had to complete the race on Monday. Even if u had won several rounds I could not have stayed on Monday due to work commitments. All in all the race was pretty well run.

Hello All.
I Hope Mike can bring IHRA back to its Glory days. Real Pro & Class Racing.
Only time will tel, but I'm going along for the ride.

Keep the doubles, it happens to singles to.

Weather is something none of us can do anything about.
IHRA did the best they could under the circumstances.

I have been at a ____ event that it started raining Thursday night, cleared up and everybody got 1 time run Friday afternoon and it poured again. Everybody got 1 time run Saturday and it rained again. They held us all over to Sunday, even though there was a 80% chance of raining. finally calling the race at noon on Sunday. Then we all got to come back 2 weeks later.

Mother Nature LUV'S Drag Racers
Cal S/ST HR 1177

[Keith 944]

To get the spectators back they need to bring back the fast door cars i.e. pro mods and mountain motor pro stock. to get the racers back get the contingency money back if they get the contingency money back where it was I'll come back. Oh and bring Back the printed version of Drag review I think its great Mike Dunn is now in charge I hope he can turn this ship around!

[Bret Kepner]

Originally Posted by Keith 944

To get the spectators back they need to bring back the fast door cars i.e. pro mods and mountain motor pro stock.

Ummm...since you obviously don't pay any attention to their program, you should probably be informed Pro Modified and Mountain Motor Pro Stock have both been back in IHRA's line-up for a while now.

[Keith 944]

Originally Posted by Bret Kepner

Ummm...since you obviously don't pay any attention to their program, you should probably be informed Pro Modified and Mountain Motor Pro Stock have both been back in IHRA's line-up for a while now.

You must not of been to a national lately, I would not call 2-3 pairs of cars a race!
And after the contingency money dropped to near laughable numbers, you are correct, I obviously didn't pay them any more attention!

[Ed Carpenter]

Originally Posted by Bret Kepner

Ummm...since you obviously don't pay any attention to their program, you should probably be informed Pro Modified and Mountain Motor Pro Stock have both been back in IHRA's line-up for a while now.

Several years ago in the Knoll gas era I went to a race in San Antonio. There were 43 pro mods for 16 spots. Its nothing like that now. That's where it needs to get back to. I hope Mike can do it.

[Bret Kepner]

Originally Posted by Keith 944

You must not of been to a national lately, I would not call 2-3 pairs of cars a race!

Originally Posted by deuces wild

Several years ago in the Knoll gas era I went to a race in San Antonio. There were 43 pro mods for 16 spots. Its nothing like that now.

I don't post opinions. I post facts. Just because somebody thinks the IHRA needs forty-three cars to have a race or the IHRA's current car count is less than what somebody "expects" doesn't mean the IHRA does not run Pro Modified or Pro Stock Eliminators. The classes are there. Take up your grievances with the association.

I'm willing to bet nobody replying to this thread realizes the IHRA PS and PM programs are "pay to play" in the same format as NHRA Pro Modified Eliminator. In fact, that’s the ONLY reason the classes returned to IHRA’s roster.

Originally Posted by ss3845

That's semantics Brett. Not sure if they still do it but the nitro teams were limited to 4 one day test sessions. Spun in a way that it will save all the teams money. Any run down any track on any day used up a test session. That may not prohibit them from attending an event but it would make it impossible to run both series. That was back in 2009/2010. Maybe it has changed. Jim McBean

In reference to the NHRA's short-lived fuel car "testing moratorium" of 2008, it was instituted because of a worldwide lack of nitromethane. The purpose was not to prevent racers from running other events. In fact, they were banned from testing only at NHRA facilities. The NHRA could hardly stop the racers from competing outside the NHRA's jurisdiction.

The 2008 season was also the final year the IHRA conducted qualified eight-car fields in Top Fuel and Funny Car Eliminators and the IHRA series included quite a few teams which raced with the NHRA. John Force and others continued to compete at Norwalk's "Night Under Fire" and Cordova's World Series of Drag Racing. Why? Because they were the only events outside the NHRA and IHRA National Event series which included those vehicles.

The NHRA maintained the testing ban in 2009. However, the IHRA was unaffected by it since they switched to a four-car, booked-in field of modern Top Fuel Dragsters for their feature attraction. Through 2008, the association lost so much money at every event due to the $185,000 fuel purses, (per race), for their open-qualified eight-car fields, they opted for a smaller, cheaper shows with the four TF teams along with their Pro Stock and Pro Modified Eliminators. Also in 2009, the IHRA dropped both Fuel and Alcohol Funny Car Eliminators from their schedule.

In 2010, the NHRA revised the testing ban to allow a maximum of four days at any track during the season, (not counting pre-season or post-season testing). This provision as adopted not as a measure to prevent racers from competing at other venues but to level the playing field for gathering information and to limit the expense of operation for all fuel teams. It had no effect on the IHRA whatsoever since the IHRA continued utilizing four booked-in Top Fuel teams while adding supercharged fuel Nostalgia Funny Cars and injected nitro dragsters to their line-up. At the end of 2010, the IHRA dropped modern Top Fuel dragsters entirely because they were still bleeding money.

Regardless, John Force and others continued to compete at Norwalk's "Night Under Fire" and Cordova's World Series of Drag Racing. Why? Because they were the only events outside the NHRA National Event series which included those vehicles.

The testing limitations were dropped at the end of 2012 because they had virtually no effect on the expense of racing in Top Fuel or Funny Car Eliminators.

These are facts. If you're looking for an argument, you're in the wrong place.

[j gardiner]

With all due respect Mr. Kepner but that is not exactly how I remember things were. I went back and looked at a few things, you might want to check some of your facts.