Gators

[Bruce Noland]

Originally Posted by MR DERBY CITY

It’s a brand new car, AND I am sure that it’s nice,

This one will be a bit of an ugly duckling for the first year, until this old Chevrolet guy figures out a Pontiac. I have had a lot of good help so far so we'll have to wait and see how it runs before locking it up in a bodyshop for months on end.

[Chip THELEGEND Johnson]

Casey
I'm in NC and other than Rockingham and Galot the closest one to me is 300 miles. Also the 1/8th mile opens are open to NHRA cars too. All you have to do is enter to get grade point. You dont have to stay.

[oldskool]

Originally Posted by Bruce Noland

This one will be a bit of an ugly duckling for the first year, until this old Chevrolet guy figures out a Pontiac. I have had a lot of good help so far so we'll have to wait and see how it runs before locking it up in a bodyshop for months on end.

Great to here about the car !

Sorry to hear about the long wait for paint. I thought it was about ready to race.

Anyhow, lookin forward to it's debut. Good luck with it !

There are a some good Pontiac guys in div 1, that will probably help, if you ask. There have always been VERY few Pontiac guys in my area. So, we've always been a pretty close knit group, helping each other.

[MR DERBY CITY]

Originally Posted by Bruce Noland

This one will be a bit of an ugly duckling for the first year, until this old Chevrolet guy figures out a Pontiac. I have had a lot of good help so far so we'll have to wait and see how it runs before locking it up in a bodyshop for months on end.

I hear ya,....they don’t call it PAINT PRISON for nothing....

[Bruce Noland]

We are responsible for these quotas. I have been telling people that this was coming for years. But most racers were not interested in getting together and at least attempting to push back against these obvious attempts to push us to the margins. NHRA has gotten away with victimizing the racers while blaming them for their actions. There were 626 sportsman racers at the Gators in the early 2000's and barring bad weather they always finished the races. We gave them an inch when Tom Compton took away our 4th qualifying round and now they have taken the proverbial mile. What to do now?

[Brian Oakes]

Ok could not sit here and not says anything about this topic., i will not pick at ea. person that posted on this, it's racing and should be FUN. Ok i agree with so many of ya.s about grade points Quota's for National events, its a circus and we all know and all it,s all about the WALLY. Ok Traveling, you guys south of the border have no idea about traveling, lets say Nova Scotia to Maple Grove 18 plus hrs ONE way, and figure out what it cost for fuel, and look at the entry list there normally is at least 20 to 30 Canadian cars there. Know talk about OPENS yes they have 6 in DIV 1. All doubles and here is the best part,Napierville race PAYS 5K US dollars ea.day CASH, last year i believe there was 48 cars. it takes 7 1/2 hrs from S.Jersey to get there, the track hooks so good, ya better have good sh(^ in it. For the border NO guns, or drugs, (that leaves 1/2 of the Americans out with the guns) lol . don't worry i pac and i leave mine at home. and fuel is no problem, so getting back to my point, if ya want to run the Circus, ya better get out and race these div. and opens, be safe everyone, see ya at some of the races. Brian

[Mark Yacavone]

Originally Posted by Bruce Noland

We are responsible for these quotas. I have been telling people that this was coming for years. But most racers were not interested in getting together and at least attempting to push back against these obvious attempts to push us to the margins. NHRA has gotten away with victimizing the racers while blaming them for their actions. There were 626 sportsman racers at the Gators in the early 2000's and barring bad weather they always finished the races. We gave them an inch when Tom Compton took away our 4th qualifying round and now they have taken the proverbial mile. What to do now?

Yup.. I predicted this would happen, over a year ago.
So ,where do we go from here? 15 gp's all from Div. 1 ? Easy enough, huh?
Likely... National events will become a millionaire's club, exclusively.
Unlikely .. Racer will again , read the charter and tell NHRA to go and pound sand ..Doubtful..Very doubtful.

[thomas r polk]

why would anyone run any NHRA RACES. They have reduced the fields and the money. Rampy has seen the light and gone back to bracket racing. I have raced for almost 60 years and have run super gas super comp, comp and super stock and I going run brackets

[Mark Yacavone]

Originally Posted by thomas r polk

why would anyone run any NHRA RACES.

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Wallys

Originally Posted by thomas r polk

why would anyone run any NHRA RACES. They have reduced the fields and the money. Rampy has seen the light and gone back to bracket racing. I have raced for almost 60 years and have run super gas super comp, comp and super stock and I going run brackets

People like running in the spotlight, they like the trophies.
Rampy retired because he has done it for 40 years. He also was doing it for a living, can’t make enough to do it for a living anymore, at least not easily. Most people are not doing this to earn a living. They race for fun, and the enjoyment of the sport.
Brackets is starting to die. Ask the racers from Cecil County. Nhra is still filling fields. Just making them smaller now.