IHRA Ends Stock & Super Stock Racing

[Myron Piatek]

Originally Posted by Dan Fahey

Hello ALL:

Hey Crate Motor racers the $10 Bet you cannot beat me is STILL ON !!

Dan

When did this bet go into effect?

[cicero819]

Unfortunately I can see NHRA follow in the near future, their accountants can count and NHRA bulk of members are bracket racers after all.maybe another two years before they make changes.I hope it doesn't happen but they have to do something maybe 10.5 or compacts.

[Dan Fahey]

Originally Posted by Myron Piatek

When did this bet go into effect?

Fortunately last week during the Crate Moter conversations!

So the Crate Motor vs Pure Stocker challenge is on ?

d

[Steve1118]

Originally Posted by Frito

Steve 1118, how about $5,000 + for the latest trick 727 with 904 innards? Yep they are are there.

A bit more expensive than the NAPA kit, for sure. Frito, remember when you went to NAPA and bought a rebuilt starter for on them? Nobody wishes it was still 1969 any more than I do, but the fact is that it's not. Sad but true.

[Myron Piatek]

Sure. Hopefully we can find a time and venue where it would be possible.

[BPotts]

You guys know that NHRA watches everything IHRA does and if it is successful, they adopt it. Where did Pro Mod, T/D and T/S come from? Over on the I side. So you can bet your boots that if IHRA is succesful with this move NHRA will follow. They're already screaming that they aren't making money and getting rid of tech people.

No one has mentioned the PDRA. If you look at their schedule they race on good tracks... They're racing on better tracks than IHRA has. I've had some communication with Bob Harris and he's open to the idea of running Stock and Super Stock but everyone needs to show him there is an interest and that you would support the PDRA if they will run the class. Here's his contact info. Hit him up!

PDRA Race Director
Bob Harris (919) 880-4962
E-mail: bob@pdra660.com

[Nmbr1GMfan]

PDRA are some great folks.

[1347]

Originally Posted by cicero819

Unfortunately I can see NHRA follow in the near future, their accountants can count and NHRA bulk of members are bracket racers after all.maybe another two years before they make changes.I hope it doesn't happen but they have to do something maybe 10.5 or compacts.

Im a little lost, during the crate motor discussion, it was brought up that at IHRA races, less than 20 SS and Stockers show up at races, so though it sucks that IHRA got rid of class racing, someone said the writing was on the wall due to low car counts. In div1 NHRA divisionals, we get close to 100 Stockers, and 75 or so Super Stockers. At the Dutch Classic, we had 124 Stockers, at 170 per entry, that's over 27,000 in entries, to pay 2000 to the winner ( Gold Rush and ATI put up money also)
I'm not sure where the bean counters are gonna say thats a money loser. I dont know any bracket racer that would pay a 170.00 entry fee to win 2000.00. I'm sorry for you IHRA guys, but with the field size, and filling quotas fast at National events, no-one can say that the lack of participants will kill NHRA class racing as was said about IHRA class racing last week prior to the bad news

[HR9121]

Originally Posted by 1347

Im a little lost, during the crate motor discussion, it was brought up that at IHRA races, less than 20 SS and Stockers show up at races, so though it sucks that IHRA got rid of class racing, someone said the writing was on the wall due to low car counts. In div1 NHRA divisionals, we get close to 100 Stockers, and 75 or so Super Stockers. At the Dutch Classic, we had 124 Stockers, at 170 per entry, that's over 27,000 in entries, to pay 2000 to the winner ( Gold Rush and ATI put up money also)
I'm not sure where the bean counters are gonna say thats a money loser. I dont know any bracket racer that would pay a 170.00 entry fee to win 2000.00. I'm sorry for you IHRA guys, but with the field size, and filling quotas fast at National events, no-one can say that the lack of participants will kill NHRA class racing as was said about IHRA class racing last week prior to the bad news

Ditto! IHRA didn't quit having class racing while making money, they were looking their ***! NHRA is not going to stop having class racing as long as 100+ cars per class are showing up.

[Adger Smith]

Just for information and possible planning I used my home town of Texarkana, USA (Ar/TX) as a base of Operations to attend all 6 of the NMCA races.
Total round trip mileage = 9618
Total travel time round trip = 140 hrs and 47 min
Approx. fuel used = 962 gal
Approx. cost of fuel @ $3.00 per gal = $2886.00
Entry fees = $1,100
Expense per Month/Race $ 665.00