More classes added to Div 2 LODRS events

[Freddie]

Originally Posted by Joe Pinkston

Freddie;

I'd say the biggest deal of this would be time, I mean time to run all the classes during a decent hour when the track conditions would be safe. I remember back in '04 or '05 at SGMP when there was a rain delay and T/S was getting their qualifying run at 10 o'clock at night. The dew had started to fall and I saw Dave Saul and Edwin Stewart both crash their cars within a short period of time. Question is, just how much more stuff can be added in the given amount of time to run one of these events?

Like some seem to think, this may be the direction NHRA wants to move to at the expense of dropping the traditional classes they already have in place. If I wanted to race the "Unleashed" style of index racing I can do that once a month at Gainesville, only 45 minutes from my house. That's not what I built my car for and not what I want to do.




Hey Dan Moore, you're #1.

RIP Mark Graham

Joe: I agree these events are already under a big time constraint "IF" anything happens. I am not in the loop as to why these changes happen, but have seen for some time, all the divisional races suffering from lack of participation. The addition of T/S, T/D was a huge boost for NHRA, maybe they are looking to see if this will be the next big thing and eventually replace some of the existing classes, like Comp, or the .90 classes. Who knows, but look at it this way if these new index classes bring in even 20 cars per class that is an additional 10k in income to each event. May make up for some of the other classes who are normally suffering.

Maybe if NHRA spent the time and effort to educate the fans on the .90 racing, they would be more accepted, but Im sure in the end you will find it is just easier to replace them with a format that people can understand.... Again this is just my take on it, and not an official word in any way.....