“Live” from Indy US Nationals 2020

[Rod Greene]

Originally Posted by Larry Hill

What a zoo and a cluster. We are on the road outside the main gate. We arrived 1.00pm local time. Mike McMahan is directing traffic. How could NHRA not be prepared?

Without Redman 2 years in a row they don't know what they are doing.

[DYER]

sounds like a repete of last year !!!!!!!!!!!!

[Eric Merryfield]

Originally Posted by DYER

sounds like a repete of last year !!!!!!!!!!!!

Well last years parking was Biblical, not sure if I can describe it any better than that!

Last year we had real class racing unlike this year,

Without that its not Indy for me. Beagles miss that Indiana grass, circle track and the fries,

Social event of the year meeting all the racers from throughout the land,

Good luck to all going

I'm sure it will be a memorable event

Eric

[Frank Castros]

Originally Posted by Eric Merryfield

Well last years parking was Biblical, not sure if I can describe it any better than that!

Last year we had real class racing unlike this year,

Without that its not Indy for me. Beagles miss that Indiana grass, circle track and the fries,

Social event of the year meeting all the racers from throughout the land,

Good luck to all going

I'm sure it will be a memorable event



Eric

Parking was hardly the parting of the Red Sea. Imagine Moses and Redman on the job.

[Eric Merryfield]

Originally Posted by Frank Castros

Parking was hardly the parting of the Red Sea. Imagine Moses and Redman on the job.

Unfortunately, that is a mere pleasant memory of times gone by.

The new model, likely a future Harvard Business School Case Study is determining just how inelastic the classracers demand for racing truly is.....Keep cutting until the demand goes down. Tech, car counts, haven't seemed to affect demand, BUT applying the same method to parking, thats where things get dicey and risky.

Case in point, of perhaps cutting too much, would be Dyer, he wins class every year with his Cobra Jet, wins that trophy and checks that make the week free for him, good business for him, he now stays home.

How many wives and girlfriends that were in the line to park last year put their foot down and said, never again?

Loved ones for the most part come to support their addicted family members, and don't care about tech, quotas, etc. but they do wonder where the staff is while waiting to get pitted, and clearly notice that on race day, somehow staff is on hand to park the fans......

Heard in the pits last year: " I've passed kidney stones that were more pleasant than getting parked"

Ouch

Eric

[BG56]

Remember this one? Not my thoughts on the 'treatment' by NHRA to racers but it does keep popping in my head!!

[Floyd Staggs]

In spite of the issues there are 891 entries there. Should be a great weekend.