2008 SportsNationals Racer Input

[Dick Butler]

Pat, We would hope to contact you about having TOP/STK this year. It would pay itself out of entry and provide a GREAT heads up Stock race. Div 1, 3 and 2 cars are heading your way and could make a good field. Please contact me Dick Butler 937-623-8126. Woodro and Alan Roerich can fill you in also....
TOP/SS would be great if enough cars are ready.

[ss3845]

Pat,
Can you come up north and show the dimwits in columbus how a race should be run??

[birdbrain]

Pat:

It will be hard for a lot of racers to understand why this race was put on top of an IHRA National event in San Antonio.No doubt it will affect the car counts at both races. Your race is farther south for MOST racers, so driving time and fuel costs could sway racers to go to San Antonio, or they could skip both races, who knows. Obviously you have a great facility and we have a awesome time racing there, but San Antonio is a very entertaining city also. Hopefully the peeing contest between both sanctioning bodies will eventually pass and both races can enjoy the full benefit of having a race on seperate weekends.

Bigshot

[Chad Rhodes]

Originally Posted by birdbrain

Pat:

It will be hard for a lot of racers to understand why this race was put on top of an IHRA National event in San Antonio.No dought it will affect the car counts at both races. Your race is farther south for MOST racers, so driving time and fuel costs could sway racers to go to San Antonio, or they could skip both races, who knows. Obviously you have a great facility and we have a awesome time racing there, but San Antonio is a very entertaining city also. Hopefully the peeing contest between both sanctioning bodies will eventually pass and both races can enjoy the full benefit of having a race on seperate weekends.

Bigshot

isn't the IHRA race 1/8 mile? if so I doubt the SprotsNationals will be the reason for the low car count

[Stocker 2]

Originally Posted by birdbrain

Pat:

It will be hard for a lot of racers to understand why this race was put on top of an IHRA National event in San Antonio.No dought it will affect the car counts at both races. Your race is farther south for MOST racers, so driving time and fuel costs could sway racers to go to San Antonio, or they could skip both races, who knows. Obviously you have a great facility and we have a awesome time racing there, but San Antonio is a very entertaining city also. Hopefully the peeing contest between both sanctioning bodies will eventually pass and both races can enjoy the full benefit of having a race on seperate weekends.

Bigshot

It was IHRA that made the mistake of not checking with Pat when they put their 1/8 mile San Antonio race on top of his highly successful Sportsnationals. Birdshot can only hope IHRA is smarter when they start looking at their 2009 schedule.

[birdbrain]

Originally Posted by Stocker 2

It was IHRA that made the mistake of not checking with Pat when they put their 1/8 mile San Antonio race on top of his highly successful Sportsnationals. Birdshot can only hope IHRA is smarter when they start looking at their 2009 schedule.

Correct me if I was wrong, but the official IHRA national event schedule was out long before the Sportsnationals date was out. By the way why did Pat change the date from last year? San Antonio is a 1/4 mile race, last year they had a major track issue during the race and the track was repaired but IHRA and the owner felt it would be safer to run the event 1/8 mile instead of calling the race off.

Bigshot

[Sluggo]

Originally Posted by birdbrain

Pat:

It will be hard for a lot of racers to understand why this race was put on top of an IHRA National event in San Antonio.No dought it will affect the car counts at both races. Your race is farther south for MOST racers, so driving time and fuel costs could sway racers to go to San Antonio, or they could skip both races, who knows. Obviously you have a great facility and we have a awesome time racing there, but San Antonio is a very entertaining city also. Hopefully the peeing contest between both sanctioning bodies will eventually pass and both races can enjoy the full benefit of having a race on seperate weekends.

Bigshot

If you go back and look at the last three years, San Antonio was run in March up against the Memphis Divisional. The Cajun Sportsnationals was run in April for 2005, 2006, 2007. Now explain why you think that Pat and the NHRA put their race on top of the IHRA Nationals in San Antonio. Sounds like it was just the opposite to me. Seems like someone didn't like the March date that they had been running on and moved it to a better weather date to me.

Big tire belong on the back !!

[birdbrain]

Originally Posted by Sluggo

If you go back and look at the last three years, San Antonio was run in March up against the Memphis Divisional. The Cajun Sportsnationals was run in April for 2005, 2006, 2007. Now explain why you think that Pat and the NHRA put their race on top of the IHRA Nationals in San Antonio. Sounds like it was just the opposite to me. Seems like someone didn't like the March date that they had been running on and moved it to a better weather date to me.

Big tire belong on the back !!

Sluggo

You ought to check the dates in April. They were never the first weekend in April. NHRA changed the date on Memphis and they plugged in Belle Rose. Sounds like to me NHRA didn't like the weather in Tennessee in March/April. Calling the kettle black?

Bigshot

[Ed Carpenter]

San Antonio's national event IS 1/8 mile this year. Someone at IHRA thinks this will be a hit. After the race they might have a different opinion.

Ed Carpenter

66 Chevy II

4244 SS/I

[Alan Warman]

Pat
Were is the best place to stay.That is close to Belle Rose.