Both or neither this week in Phoenix!!!

[GarysZ24]

If losing .3 of a second, and altitude correction factors originally dubbed for Super Class racers (et.al.), weren't enough, now I can't even race my local divisional points race! Why? Because I can't afford to race both of the upcoming LODRS races being held this week at Firebird International Raceway. $330 bucks is a lot of money for two divisional races, and at no other time in the year will a divisional event have back to back races. Yet in order to run the first of the two, you have to pay for both (or you don't get to play)!

Try as I may to support the NHRA (or was it the decision of our Div. Director Mike Rice, or possibly the track manager Charlie Allen?), I now have another reason why I wish (pray) that the IHRA will continue to grow, and strengthen their efforts to move out west here with their "Pro-Am" series! They have back to back divisional races every year and you are not required to enter both to participate in either (and their divisionals are $135 bucks regardless of division)! All I wanted to do was enter one divisional points race, that would allow me the chance to earn some points, hang out with my buds, and if I didn't win enough rounds to earn the funds for race #2, to pack up and go home, but NOOOO!!! Not thanks to this sanctioning body, or div. director, or track manager (or all of the above)!

For a sanctioning body who says the sportsman racers are the "backbone of our sport", this sure is a nice way of proving it....NOT!!!