thanks IHRA nitro jam --- no stock/ss at several races!

[Carl Juliano]

Originally Posted by thomas sheehan

This excuse may fly for your Utah race but not for pittsburgh... we get just as many cars here as all the other east coast races get.... doesn't make a bit of sense.

Thats how I feel Tom. I was shocked when I saw the class schedule. I was hoping to go to my first Nitro Jam and run TS.........oh well. There are no eastcoast NHRA events that weekend. I think alot of class racers would have attended this event. You cant compare Utah to Pa. as far as "amount of available class racers in the area".

[Chad Rhodes]

The weird part is that IHRA seems to be investing in sportsman racing in most other aspects aside from this. I would say this to skooter " in order to see a return on investment, you have to stick with the investment long enough for it to pay off."

[Dago Red]

For years NHRA has been angling for a way to dump sportsman classes from its national event schedule. We're going to be replaced with jet cars, wheelstanders, frisbee fetching dogs, and overcaffinated teenagers throwing cheap crap into the grandstands. Everytime the schedule gets fouled up, we take it in the neck. Everytime the pros need more paved pit area to set up their dog and pony show, we end up in the mud. The selective elimination of sportsman eliminators at national events is just the beginning. I wish they'd just run us early, finish Saturday night and be done with it. I hoped the IHRA might be an alternetive, but things seem to be fading fast.

[THE LEGEND]

Dago,
If you are in Fort Worth you have San Antonio and Baton Rouge. Thats more than the rest of us.
Of course Texas has more IHRA tracks than any other state now.
Chip

[Myron Piatek]

Originally Posted by Dago Red

I wish they'd just run us early, finish Saturday night and be done with it. I hoped the IHRA might be an alternetive, but things seem to be fading fast.

Actually, at the rest of the IHRA Nitro Jams, that is basically how they do it. Depending on the schedule - Fri./Sat. or Sat./Sun., qualifying is on the first day till the afternoon or so with no interference from the Pro show. The next day is qualifying and/or eliminations, again, till later in the afternoon with no Pro's to cause us any delays.