IHRA Ends Stock & Super Stock Racing

[MR DERBY CITY]

Originally Posted by Ed Carpenter

Ihra sportsman program failed because of the "I'm too good to run ihra" crowd in nhra. Personally had racers tell me I'm not running my stuff in Ihra. I asked why not real good racers race Ihra. They said Ihra is a second class citizen. Damn must be nice for your **** not to stink. IMHO it's a huge EGO deal. In any event, they killed it for the rest of us. Thanks guys....

Ed, I believe you are painting your statement with a pretty BROAD brush...As far as racers runnng IHRA events, it really depends on where the racers live...Back in the day, IHRA was really strong in the Carolina's, During Bader's regime, Ohio..Michigan , had races with extremely high car counts, ....Nick Morris touched on this sometime ago..If a racer runs a few NHRA national events ,5 or 6 points meets ,throw in a few combos if you are fortunate enough to have them in your area...well there's 14 race weekends right there...With business and family commitments there simply is NO TIME to run other races..