IHRA tournament of Champions

Beth Denysenko · 10-29-2009, 08:21 AM

Alex and I had 900 miles to discuss this on the way home and talk about "what could have been." I'm sure he will add his ideas later, but for now I want to comment on people who say those who were in the TOC shouldn't have been in the Sportsnationals or was only in it for the dough.

We have never been to Rockingham. We wanted to get a couple of extra hits on the track so we left early enough to enter. I would assume so did most of TOC competitors. And the money Alex won helped offset the travel expenses. Sorry for those in the SS All Stars who didn't get to start their race due to Alex still in the SN.

IHRA had a good idea there were a LOT of cars entered in the SN by Wed. night. They could have easily announced to everyone at the track Wed. night that the SN would start at 9am instead of noon. Give everyone a run card for two runs, those who showed up for a 12 pm start and only got one run would get a clean up. But they didn't do that. They didn't even start the SN until after 1:30 - we started an hour and a half late for what? Track prep. That should have been done on Wed. We should have been ready to run at 8 am Thursday. Mismanagement. More later . . . .

10-29-2009, 08:21 AM	#12
Beth Denysenko Live Reporter Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: NW Indiana Posts: 426 Likes: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: IHRA tournament of Champions Alex and I had 900 miles to discuss this on the way home and talk about "what could have been." I'm sure he will add his ideas later, but for now I want to comment on people who say those who were in the TOC shouldn't have been in the Sportsnationals or was only in it for the dough. We have never been to Rockingham. We wanted to get a couple of extra hits on the track so we left early enough to enter. I would assume so did most of TOC competitors. And the money Alex won helped offset the travel expenses. Sorry for those in the SS All Stars who didn't get to start their race due to Alex still in the SN. IHRA had a good idea there were a LOT of cars entered in the SN by Wed. night. They could have easily announced to everyone at the track Wed. night that the SN would start at 9am instead of noon. Give everyone a run card for two runs, those who showed up for a 12 pm start and only got one run would get a clean up. But they didn't do that. They didn't even start the SN until after 1:30 - we started an hour and a half late for what? Track prep. That should have been done on Wed. We should have been ready to run at 8 am Thursday. Mismanagement. More later . . . . __________________ Beth Denysenko P/SA 330 www.moneymakerracing.net