Dallas or Houston

[Stephen Hughes]

Originally Posted by Hagen Gary

I have friends and family that are going to houston. Hotel rooms booked and they are going to watch me and the pros. They arnt gonna come to Dallas. I wouldn't be happy if they wanted to race it in Dallas. Why am I gonna pay $310 to race in front of nobody? My sponsor wouldn't like that very much and I assume the contingency Sponsors wouldn't either. How about he pour some blacktop road down the back so we don't have to be in the mud? doesn't he own a paving company? The weather looks good from here on out. How long have we been paying entry fees and he hasn't done anything for our pits? I'll answer that, over 20 years. It's a dirt road. People who are coming to watch us have money invested in this already. Not everyone has a motorhome. They rented hotels already. People bought tickets already expecting their friends to be there. And now you want me to pay $310 and I can't even watch the pros?

What he said ^^^. I don't run a lot of these, i'm just a backyard nhra racer, but i'm willing to pay that entry fee to race and watch the travelling circus once a year. Hrp's pit area is a joke for the sportsman guys, but it just shows who they are worried about when they dont do anything about it. They have added some drainage to the spectator parking lot though...gee thanks..

[Larry Hill]

http://www.nhraracer.com/content/gen...890&zoneid=175


Answer to your question!

[Jeff Teuton]

This motorhome is shaking all over the place. Really bad front coming through. I am not going to Houston if the race is done there. I am going home. I think my son Joey going to Houston. We are having water wings put on the camper. It is really shaking this 45000 lb monster around right now.

[Adub464Q]

I'm not going either Mr. Jeff. I am not interested in sitting in the mud again and having to complete it on Monday or something else. The sensible thing to do would be to move it to Dallas, but since that is sensible, that is not an option as we know it!

Has anyone been asked for input? Isn't this what our sportsman advisory council is for?

[Joseph Teuton]

Houston will be a mud mess! I am going because I managed to get a few rounds in Gainesville and hope to continue the luck. The good thing is I have a HOTEL room with my name on it. Yea some of us don't have motorhomes. But just in case I have a hotel room in Ennis as well! Maybe I should invest in a motorhome! I can tell you we had standing water today in Ennis and we are parked on gravel couldn't imagine parking on grass!

[Ed Wright]

I came to Ennis fully intending to go on to Houston. I talked to several Super Stock racers yesterday and today that decided to skip Houston. I don't remember talking to anybody that has not decided to skip it. Sounds like SS may be a little light on cars.

[Hagen Gary]

Originally Posted by Ed Wright

I came to Ennis fully intending to go on to Houston. I talked to several Super Stock racers yesterday and today that decided to skip Houston. I don't remember talking to anybody that has not decided to skip it. Sounds like SS may be a little light on cars.

By looking at the entry list, looks like more cars are entering the race than leaving it. We added over 8 cars in stock and Superstock in the last 2 days... the ones who entered are here at dalas, so go talk to them. Like I said, weather looks promising the whole week. Do some of you guys think water doesn't dry up with a little sunshine? We've got 5 days till we park. Relax. Don't ruin our National Event by making it a $310 divisional race and screwing over our friends who are coming watch just because you think it might be wet. Seth Angel isn't going to give up all that money anyway. He knows how many people come with the sportsman because he had to refund all of their tickets in 2013. He isn't going to wanna pay for us to run it in Dallas. I would think he'd rather pour us a few roads, that's all we need. Now, if they wanna give me the $100 insurance and my friends money back, I'm with yall. Let's run it here if it looks like mud. But I still don't know what they are going to do about their hotel rooms.

[Bill Bagley]

Many of us who do this (drag racing) are business owners and we're able to do it because we're somewhat successful business owners. Holding onto that thought, I struggle to understand why the HRP track owners can't justify a few hundred thousand in capital investment dollars to make it a premier facility. A guaranteed NHRA national and divisional event in the most competitive division in the country and the potential to be one of the best attended national/divisional events on an annual basis.

It's a puzzling picture.

What am I missing here?

[Kegracing]

Mr. Bill,
I think you answered part of your own question. Owners are in it as business - for money only.
NHRA does not seem to care about sportsmen and neither does HRP... They invested in the spectator parking lot. That tells you what is important to them. Selling hotdogs and beer to the huge market of people they have that will come to see the pros. One of the largest cities in the country, they dont need a big sportsmen field. They just need the crowd in the stands for the pros.
With all the issues there over the years, IF NHRA cared, they would tell them to do something about it, but they dont...
Shame, but it is just the same story on and on. National Events are about the pros and getting people in the stands.

Ken

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