Open Field or Not?

[THE LEGEND]

Rich,
I call BS on your thinking you are more of a division 1 racer than me because you are a Yankee. I only live 200 miles from Richmond and 300 from MIR How far are you????????

To answer your question about being fair. It's not fair to some but life ain't either. I'm leading the points in Hot Rod and would go to BUMF**#$%&ked Egypt to finish out what I started.
No Disrespect intended.
Chip

[Rich67stang]

Originally Posted by THE LEGEND

Rich,
I call BS on your thinking you are more of a division 1 racer than me because you are a Yankee. I only live 200 miles from Richmond and 300 from MIR How far are you????????

To answer your question about being fair. It's not fair to some but life ain't either. I'm leading the points in Hot Rod and would go to BUMF**#$%&ked Egypt to finish out what I started.
No Disrespect intended.
Chip

Be nice Chip, Dont start cursing @ someone from Brooklyn, NY... That being said, I am 250 from MIR, 300 from Richmond, did you goto skyview..no, did you goto Pitts...no, I do not recall ever seeing you @ Epping, WHY? .So yes, I am more of a DIV1 racer than you. It should be held @ a DIV1 track, wherever that may be.

[Bryan Worner]

So now us true D1 racers have to travel thousands of miles (round trips) to try to win a points race or two, worth about $2500.00 each? Not worth it! Why no reschedule at MIR? No planning on IHRA's part for a possible rain date? Why was this race, which has always been run in April, scheduled in August this year? Especially with no effort into planning a rain date? Come on!

Maybe the rumor that MIR is going NHRA next season is true after all!!!

[Brandon Peterson]

Originally Posted by Bryan Worner

So now us true D1 racers have to travel thousands of miles (round trips) to try to win a points race or two, worth about $2500.00 each? Not worth it! Why no reschedule at MIR? No planning on IHRA's part for a possible rain date? Why was this race, which has always been run in April, scheduled in August this year? Especially with no effort into planning a rain date? Come on!

Maybe the rumor that MIR is going NHRA next season is true after all!!!

Bryan, MIR announced before we left the track that they had no open slot on their schedule to host the venue they have plus another shot at a pro am..so a make up race at MIR was out before we left the track

[mike withers]

Originally Posted by Brandon Peterson

Bryan, MIR announced before we left the track that they had no open slot on their schedule to host the venue they have plus another shot at a pro am..so a make up race at MIR was out before we left the track

How many super stock cars showed up at MIR?

[sugar1366]

Originally Posted by mike withers

How many super stock cars showed up at MIR?

I believe I counted 14 In the lanes before it rained.

[Brandon Peterson]

Originally Posted by mike withers

How many super stock cars showed up at MIR?

17 cars on the final sheet, I believe only half were claiming d1, rest were d3 cars

[LNorton]

It was brought to my attention that racers that were not at the Carolina Pro-Am can still use Monday at Darlington as an in-division claim even if they did not attend the original event. Seems to me that it would set precedent for the MIR points claims. All of the races involved encountered rain and were never run. What makes MIR any different?

[Michael Beard]

Rich - In the past, Chip has been to Epping, Pittsburgh, Martin, Palm Beach, Immokalee, etc. The travel argument doesn't work well against him.

Chip - You posted in the .90 section on a roll call thread

I hav'nt decided yet. I got a broke rearend. I got a broke wallet and diesel is pushing $4 bucks again.

If you hadn't gotten the gear fixed in time and hadn't gone, and saw it rain out... would you relinquish your points lead with a shrug, take a '0' for the season and say, "Sometime's life's not fair."?

[Chris1529]

I think this is a little different situation since it was the last two division one races of the year. For those racers that chose not to come to get their in division races in, or chose not to come for some other reason, knowing full well this was the last two division one races of the year, why would you think the field should be open if the race is run somewhere else? If you needed the points or claims, and you chose not to come to MIR, then you were giving up on the points. Just because the race was rained out and racers are given an opportunity to earn points elsewhere, that by no means gives anyone else the right to enter now.

For those that couldn't come to MIR, you would have missed out on the claims/points anyway if the race was run. I don't think there is an arguement for an open field there either.

If this hadn't been the last race of the season in the division, and there were still claims left on the table for everyone, I think IHRA would open up the field.

I also think its not too fair to the people from up north, but if no other tracks would schedule another divisional, then what choice did IHRA have? There wasn't enough cars at MIR to cover the purse, so why would another track take a divisional right now.

I'm not going to Darlington or London. I had already made other plans this weekend, and I took my first and last trip to London last spring.