More important than Joe Newbie building a Stocker

[Bill Grubbs]

Friday/Saturday races…
Why is this an issue.
So Joe decides to build a stocker. However he has little to no vacation, and cannot take Friday off to qualify for a race with the car he just built.
So in reality he has no place to race except bracket racing…so why build a stocker?

When Brenda and I started I/NHRA racing we were in this situation. We would get off work at 5pm on Friday and drive all night and arrive at the track between 3 and 6 in the morning. Get set up qualify and the race on Sunday. Only to drive all night to get home between 2 and 6 in the morning…take a shower and go to work.

We made it work…however if it was a Friday/Saturday schedule we never would have even tried.

If we don’t give a new wannabe racer a chance to race he will never begin to build his/her stocker.

The Friday/Saturday schedule does allow people to get home on Sunday🙄. Never mind the fact that 50% of the racers would be on the road by 10AM on Sunday anyway.

Let us not even talk about waiting till noon or later to start Qualifying on Friday.

Flame on!