Pits At Drag Strips

GTS340 · 04-09-2018, 03:36 PM

Your right on the no grass in Vegas. The desert at 110 degrees makes short work of grass when it rains once or twice a year. Shade, Nice M.H. with A/C or a cold beverage is the best part of the pits in Vegas.

SStockDart · 04-09-2018, 10:36 PM

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Originally Posted by GTS340

Your right on the no grass in Vegas. The desert at 110 degrees makes short work of grass when it rains once or twice a year. Shade, Nice M.H. with A/C or a cold beverage is the best part of the pits in Vegas.

We would always stop at Home Depot for a couple of rolls of sod......Dogs gotta go too.

6130 · 04-09-2018, 11:33 PM

I think it's terrible that class racers have to pit in the dirt anywhere. We did motorcycle road racing for years (at a sportsman level), and always had paved pits and access to 110-volt electrical outlets for tire warmers and such.

Then again, there were not that many people that hogged pit space- in 1993, we transported my open-class Superbike in the bed of a half-ton pickup, which also held a ramp, a 10x10' EZ-Up, a fuel jug, a folding table, a cooler, and a few folding chairs. We'd unload, and then go park our pickup somewhere else, to leave space for others. Our entire racing operation, including our family of three, our Yamaha TTR90E pit bike, and our 70-pound female lab mix, fit within a 10x10' footprint.

Air-conditioned 40' diesel pusher motorhomes, giant toy hauler trailers, awnings, covered golf carts, and multiple personal vehicles, consume an awful lot of pit space.

When I started drag racing cars in the '70s, I drove my race car to the strip, and my girlfriend and I slept in it. In the mid-'80s, I flat-towed it to the drag strip, and stowed the tow bar under my tow car to save pit space for others. In the late '80s, I towed it on a single-axle open trailer, and stowed the trailer ramps after unloading, to save pit space for others.

Ed Fernandez · 04-10-2018, 01:53 AM

Some of you guys are like whinny little women. Look in the pits at any event ( even bracket events) and all you see are MH's, toter homes, living qtr. trailers. The guys who have boxes all go any stay in motels. Take this from someone who started out flat towing
(14 yrs.). Graduated to an open trailer and when I started racing Stock I stayed in a TENT for 3 years. Got an enclosed in 2003 and made it into a comfy LQ ( car stayed outside under a car cover (tarped over in rainy weather) till I pulled the plug in 2010. So yeah, cry me a river about accomodations.

FireSale · 04-10-2018, 11:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Ed Fernandez

Some of you guys are like whinny little women. Look in the pits at any event ( even bracket events) and all you see are MH's, toter homes, living qtr. trailers. The guys who have boxes all go any stay in motels. Take this from someone who started out flat towing
(14 yrs.). Graduated to an open trailer and when I started racing Stock I stayed in a TENT for 3 years. Got an enclosed in 2003 and made it into a comfy LQ ( car stayed outside under a car cover (tarped over in rainy weather) till I pulled the plug in 2010. So yeah, cry me a river about accomodations.

I'm late to the party. Started driving my bracket Mustang to the track TOWING a home built teardrop trailer (the set-up in my avatar) in 2015. Did this for two years before buying a real truck and open trailer. Will be going into my second year of sleeping in a TENT and waking up boxed in by toy haulers and MHs with people asking if I slept in that thing...

I'm 70, by the way. Or BTW, depending on what language you speak.

savoyracer · 04-10-2018, 11:58 AM

LOL, one of the tracks I bracket race at has oil mat lane running between dirt pit spaces, the best part is there is one porta toilet, with no back wall in it, from the toilet seat up. AND, the back of the porta john is facing, and only about two hundred feet from the road into the local airport. everybody is friendly, as you are standing there, they all honk and wave as they go by on the road. Also, lots of room for your doggy to do his thing as well.

Nmbr1GMfan · 04-10-2018, 11:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Ed Fernandez

Some of you guys are like whinny little women. Look in the pits at any event ( even bracket events) and all you see are MH's, toter homes, living qtr. trailers. The guys who have boxes all go any stay in motels. Take this from someone who started out flat towing
(14 yrs.). Graduated to an open trailer and when I started racing Stock I stayed in a TENT for 3 years. Got an enclosed in 2003 and made it into a comfy LQ ( car stayed outside under a car cover (tarped over in rainy weather) till I pulled the plug in 2010. So yeah, cry me a river about accomodations.

I didn't see anyone crying about accommodations.

Mark Yacavone · 04-10-2018, 11:49 AM

Not sure what this thread has to do with whether or not you like to sleep in tents, pickup beds, on roof racks or whatever.

Don uses a crew cab and a tag trailer and stays in motels.
I believe he was commenting on the physical conditions of the pits where NHRA runs its national and divisional events.

I use a modest Class C motorhome, but in my way of thinking, for what NHRA charges for a nat'l, you shouldn't have to steam clean the the carpets of your m/h after one of their events.
Vegas, good , Fontana , good . Wild Horse, 50/50

04-09-2018, 03:36 PM	#1
GTS340 Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2017 Location: Las Vegas, Nv Posts: 871 Likes: 270 Liked 1,345 Times in 410 Posts	Re: Pits At Drag Strips Your right on the no grass in Vegas. The desert at 110 degrees makes short work of grass when it rains once or twice a year. Shade, Nice M.H. with A/C or a cold beverage is the best part of the pits in Vegas.

04-09-2018, 11:33 PM	#3
6130 Member Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Texas Posts: 409 Likes: 295 Liked 117 Times in 50 Posts	Re: Pits At Drag Strips I think it's terrible that class racers have to pit in the dirt anywhere. We did motorcycle road racing for years (at a sportsman level), and always had paved pits and access to 110-volt electrical outlets for tire warmers and such. Then again, there were not that many people that hogged pit space- in 1993, we transported my open-class Superbike in the bed of a half-ton pickup, which also held a ramp, a 10x10' EZ-Up, a fuel jug, a folding table, a cooler, and a few folding chairs. We'd unload, and then go park our pickup somewhere else, to leave space for others. Our entire racing operation, including our family of three, our Yamaha TTR90E pit bike, and our 70-pound female lab mix, fit within a 10x10' footprint. Air-conditioned 40' diesel pusher motorhomes, giant toy hauler trailers, awnings, covered golf carts, and multiple personal vehicles, consume an awful lot of pit space. When I started drag racing cars in the '70s, I drove my race car to the strip, and my girlfriend and I slept in it. In the mid-'80s, I flat-towed it to the drag strip, and stowed the tow bar under my tow car to save pit space for others. In the late '80s, I towed it on a single-axle open trailer, and stowed the trailer ramps after unloading, to save pit space for others. Last edited by 6130; 04-10-2018 at 02:08 AM.

04-10-2018, 01:53 AM	#4
Ed Fernandez Veteran Member Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: NOO JOISEY nexta NOO YAWK Posts: 5,879 Likes: 38 Liked 100 Times in 45 Posts	Re: Pits At Drag Strips Some of you guys are like whinny little women. Look in the pits at any event ( even bracket events) and all you see are MH's, toter homes, living qtr. trailers. The guys who have boxes all go any stay in motels. Take this from someone who started out flat towing (14 yrs.). Graduated to an open trailer and when I started racing Stock I stayed in a TENT for 3 years. Got an enclosed in 2003 and made it into a comfy LQ ( car stayed outside under a car cover (tarped over in rainy weather) till I pulled the plug in 2010. So yeah, cry me a river about accomodations. __________________ Former NHRA #1945 Former IHRA #1945 T/SA

04-10-2018, 11:58 AM	#6
savoyracer Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Myrtle Point Oregon Posts: 92 Likes: 3 Liked 9 Times in 3 Posts	Re: Pits At Drag Strips LOL, one of the tracks I bracket race at has oil mat lane running between dirt pit spaces, the best part is there is one porta toilet, with no back wall in it, from the toilet seat up. AND, the back of the porta john is facing, and only about two hundred feet from the road into the local airport. everybody is friendly, as you are standing there, they all honk and wave as they go by on the road. Also, lots of room for your doggy to do his thing as well.

04-10-2018, 11:49 AM	#8
Mark Yacavone Veteran Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Miles From Nowhere Posts: 7,817 Likes: 2,907 Liked 5,125 Times in 1,953 Posts	Re: Pits At Drag Strips Not sure what this thread has to do with whether or not you like to sleep in tents, pickup beds, on roof racks or whatever. Don uses a crew cab and a tag trailer and stays in motels. I believe he was commenting on the physical conditions of the pits where NHRA runs its national and divisional events. I use a modest Class C motorhome, but in my way of thinking, for what NHRA charges for a nat'l, you shouldn't have to steam clean the the carpets of your m/h after one of their events. Vegas, good , Fontana , good . Wild Horse, 50/50 __________________ "We are lucky we don't get as much Government as we pay for." Will Rogers