IHRA Ends Stock & Super Stock Racing

[Mike Schwartz]

I agree although I hope that proves different for the viability of the sport in general. Where I live, the closest track is 2 hours away, and all others are 3-4 plus. The bracket racers that I knew/know travel a little, but only two or three long trips a year and one of those was usually for the bracket finals.

Chris, I can't find the source of that quote, so I'll quote your quote of it.

There are certainly already more than 20 independent big money ("$10,000 to win" level) ET events scheduled through the year. Enough to consider creating an umbrella series of "national events" to bring them together for a championship.

As to whether Bracket Racers will travel to them, I'll bring up what happened at the Fall Fling in Bristol. For Friday's "$50,000 to win" race I counted 249 individual drivers entered (disregarding multiple entries or buy-backs). The drivers represented 29 different states and provinces, with 50 from NC and more than 20 each from PA, TN & VA). There are probably just a handful of LODRS races, and only one NHRA national event (Indy), that had as many overall combined SS & Stk entries.