Live from Maple Grove Raceway - NHRA Auto Plus Nationals

[X-TECH MAN]

Originally Posted by Randall Klein

Amish strippers!!...thanks for a good belly laugh...I'm still chuckling

You gotta wonder about building a real low end COMP car, preferred parking, better treatment, and haul the SS along....bingo bongo, no getting in line 2 weeks early, same zip code parking, factor in sitting around the holding lots, eating, time away from work...it may be a push

This seems to have disappeared from an earlier post....Gee....I wonder how that happened !
Its a good idea if you can afford the extra car and the extra entry fee and insurance fee for the fuel cars just to get a better parking spot. Maybe bring a T/S car and claim it as a pro stock car....LOL.

[1reddago]

Hey NHRA do we get our insurance money back?????????????? The pros will not be racing with the sportsman next week, so what 's what ?

Originally Posted by 1reddago

Hey NHRA do we get our insurance money back?????????????? The pros will not be racing with the sportsman next week, so what 's what ?

That's the point I was concerned about..Thank you for hitting that one out of the ballpark.

[Tim H]

I know I would certainly be pi$$ed off,if I took vacation and drove down to see S/SS this weekend only to find out they were put off to next weekend. The event schedule on NHRA.com should be updated as a courtesy to the fans that are looking forward to seeing
real race cars and not just the noisy leakers that are running this weekend.

[Joe Hertline]

I usually don't post at 2:45 pm, but since I've burned vacation time for this race I might as well. Certainly a difficult situation for all as we have no control over the weather, but waiting until Wednesday night to make this decision cost a lot of people (sportsman racers) a LOT of money. I have to think, based on past experiences, that this could have been called last weekend when the initial letter went out - either way, I'll take this as a lesson learned.

I'm really just disappointed to be missing out on the excitement of a national event, like everybody else, but I do appreciate the effort by our sportsman reps to keep us informed. Good luck to all that make it back next weekend.

[Tom Goldman]

Originally Posted by 1reddago

Hey NHRA do we get our insurance money back?????????????? The pros will not be racing with the sportsman next week, so what 's what ?

Yeah right , mabe they'll roll it into a purse increase for our troubles!
NOT!

[rognelson777]

wow, good thing Atco divisional was scheduled in the summer, Remember 2010 races. It would have been 4 weekends or more in a row for division 1 racers this year.

[John DiBartolomeo]

Someone along here (excuse me for not "quoting" who) mentioned the insurance surcharge. I do feel that it is totally out of line for a national event participant to have to foot the whole expense here, but in case anyone is interested, EVERYONE pays the surcharge, pros included. And that means that with three teams as of now, Force pays it three times, Schumacher... (oh I can't count that high...). While I don't believe the whole system is fair, there's no favoritism in this case.

[Duane Dagostino]

Force pays 3 times for 3 drivers,a sportsman enters S/C and a S/G car pays twice for 1 driver.Even the best of us can only drive 1 car at a time........

[X-TECH MAN]

Originally Posted by John DiBartolomeo

Someone along here (excuse me for not "quoting" who) mentioned the insurance surcharge. I do feel that it is totally out of line for a national event participant to have to foot the whole expense here, but in case anyone is interested, EVERYONE pays the surcharge, pros included. And that means that with three teams as of now, Force pays it three times, Schumacher... (oh I can't count that high...). While I don't believe the whole system is fair, there's no favoritism in this case.

Maybe they do pay it also BUT there is no insurance charge at the points races or National opens when the Pro fuel junk is not in attendance. If the insurance is because of those cars.....let the pro junk pay their own way. They get all the big round and win money and the best places to pit. Yeah I know they bring in the spectators so raise the price of tickets for the spectators. They are the ones who watch that crap.