Question for the Super Stock Racer's

[Michael Beard]

This just keeps getting weirder...

Originally Posted by Ed Wright

"Deep historical roots" in IHRA maybe, but we have a lot of Super Modified SS cars in Div 4 NHRA, but most don't fit the IHRA rules.

So are you trying to say that Production cars are a joke because they have MORE stringent rules than an unrelated NHRA class? Or are you not defending the Production cars are a joke statement? What are you calling Super Modified cars, because that's a Comp class. Yes, IHRA does not run Competition Eliminator. If you're referring to Modified Stock (AS, BS, CS, etc...), IHRA also has them. (As for "a lot", there appears to have been 4 Modified Stock cars in NHRA Div. 4 last year) Did you mean the MX classes? Both sanctioning bodies have those. What cars are you talking about, what rules do they not fit, and how is any of this relevant to SS/Production?

There aren't a lot of IHRA-only Stock or SS cars around here anyway.

So... how are they keeping anyone else at home then?

Considering the IHRA tracks around here, they likely still wouldn't draw many cars. I ran several IHRA races a few years ago. I tried to support them. Other than Tulsa, which couldn't make any money with IHRA, none of them had room for the number of cars and big rigs an NHRA points race draws. They couldn't fit them all in.

So if the facilities were larger, they'd draw more cars? Huh? Tulsa's a nice facility, and IHRA had a great program there with an added FREE race one year, and people still didn't support it. Many tracks have switched sanctioning bodies throughout the years. Tulsa, Shreveport (Thunder Road Raceway Park), Virginia Motorsports Park, New England Dragway, Norwalk, and Montgomery among many others were once IHRA. Hanging an NHRA flag at the gate must confer magical powers.

[Another Friendly Racer]

If you want to make a legend of yourself (or at least get a reputation), you need to win in the NHRA. I think this is a prevalent, underlying factor to many racers... even though nobody will admit it. It's tougher to get that reputation in the IHRA.