IHRA Ends Stock & Super Stock Racing

Mike Pearson · 10-09-2017, 06:17 AM

My personal opinion for the failure of IHRA is not listening to what the racers were telling them. The vast majority want 1/4 mile races. Some just won't run 1/8 th mile. Also the demise of the divisional system was a death blow. Most of the IHRA racers were not big travelers. The tournament of champions format was good and the win and you are in was also a good program when they had it. Another thing was lack of any type promotion of the events to try to get some spectator money for the tracks. Down here in div 2 we had steady growth at the events including last year. Almost all of the racers at the div 2 IHRA races are the same racers at the NHRA div 2 races. There were very few if the IHRA only racers don here. I am really sad to hear they are dropping the class cars. I guess this makes my Iron Man trophy a little more valuable to me now knowing there will be no more chances to win another. The current ownership just ran the organization into the ground.

10-09-2017, 06:17 AM	#17
Mike Pearson VIP Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 2,450 Likes: 615 Liked 1,931 Times in 580 Posts	Re: IHRA Ends Stock & Super Stock Racing My personal opinion for the failure of IHRA is not listening to what the racers were telling them. The vast majority want 1/4 mile races. Some just won't run 1/8 th mile. Also the demise of the divisional system was a death blow. Most of the IHRA racers were not big travelers. The tournament of champions format was good and the win and you are in was also a good program when they had it. Another thing was lack of any type promotion of the events to try to get some spectator money for the tracks. Down here in div 2 we had steady growth at the events including last year. Almost all of the racers at the div 2 IHRA races are the same racers at the NHRA div 2 races. There were very few if the IHRA only racers don here. I am really sad to hear they are dropping the class cars. I guess this makes my Iron Man trophy a little more valuable to me now knowing there will be no more chances to win another. The current ownership just ran the organization into the ground. __________________ Mike Pearson 2485 SS