IHRA Cancels Cayuga National Event

[jarn05]

Originally Posted by steven Novosel

it's A Shame Cayuga Couldn't Get The Repairs Done In Time....but Instead Of Cancelling The Event Move It To Grand Bend....i Sure The Racers Wouldn't Mind Traveling There To Race...and The Community Of Grand Bend Wouldn't Mind The Extra Income!!!!!

Move It To Sanair!!!!

[tpoh815]

how about ny international raceway park????

[Chris1529]

They added a Sportsnational at Pittsburgh in conjunction with the Divisional. The SN will be Sunday, double pro-am on Fri& Sat.

[Dave Turner]

Originally Posted by tpoh815

how about ny international raceway park????

That gets my vote!!

[Tim H]

Originally Posted by jarn05

Move It To Sanair!!!!

I'll gladly second that .

[Jason Oldfield]

I have to say that this smells fishy to me, or I just totally don't understand IHRA's thinking. Assuming IHRA's revenue stream is heavily based upon the spectator gate like NHRA's, then reducing the number of events isn't going to help their financial situation. They've already lost Norwalk and Mansfield was DOA, Pittsburgh's not going this year, and now they cancel this event because the improvements weren't being made to their level of satisfaction. But, who's to say that those improvements wouldn't have been done in time for the event?

Right now, there is an NHRA national event scheduled for September 11 - 14 in Charlotte for a track that isn't anywhere close to the level of completeness that TMP is currently (don't get me wrong, when it's done, I know Charlotte will be nicer than TMP, but as of a week or so ago it was all still dirt). So, is IHRA telling me that there's no way that these improvements could have been made for a race that was supposed to take place a WEEK AFTER the event in Charlotte?

And why CANCEL the event altogether, even if that's true? Why not reschedule it for some other location? I'm sure NYIRP, Grand Bend, or a HOST of other IHRA tracks would jump through hoops to be able to get that race. But instead they just cancel it outright?

I don't believe we're hearing the whole story here. I know TMP has been slow to implement improvements, but there has got to be more to the story than just that.

I feel bad for the racers in WNY and Southeastern Ontario as this was the biggest race in the region. I'm certainly disappointed as well, but for me this clears up the schedule conflict on my calendar, and I will now go to the Jeg's SPORTSNationals in Columbus instead.

[Ven302]

Jason, your argument holds true considering the announcement of the National Event Payout on the third day of the Pittsburgh race! So now they are making a sportsman payout, yet wont have any gate at all.

Smells like Pro Stock Truck

Would this have happened with the "OLD" IHRA?

i e mailed neale armstrong director of track operations and asked if they lost this event for next year also,he replied to me saying there will be a press release soon about this decision .

[Dick Kirkpatrick]

How could there be such a lack of support from the racing community for the facility at Cayuga.
I find it particularly interesting that our fellow American racers think that the event should be moved to a track nearer to them. I suppose this is only because of the price of fuel?

This track has been in business since the late 1950's

It seems to me that there is more to this than what the IHRA considers to be non compliance on their list of improvements that they mandated last year. There are lots of race tracks that have the same if not worse conditions, especially in the pits.

I dread the hidden message that the IHRA will be releasing a news bulletin in the near future as to whether the event will be permanently cancelled.

I think it is time to rally behind the management at TMP before it is too late.

[rj davis]

On Sept 10 2007 Competetion Plus had a Major story about Toronto Motorsports park.It tells you why IHRA cancelled this race this year.If I could past and cut, I would post the link.