Grade Point Alternative

[Charley Downing]

I would hardly call driving to 8 points meets or national opens and paying $180-$200 entry at the gate and passing tech putting in the work in order to run national events. But what do I know I have only been doing this for 20 years or so.

[Billy Nees]

Charlie Bob, you're gonna need a good Business Lawyer for when NHRA "attacks" your business plan!

[Mike Pearson]

I am pretty sure Charlie and Bubsky are one in the same.

[Jeff Niceswanger]

Charlie !!! Can you get Led Zeppelin Tickets ? People will pay whatever you want....

I think you're on to something here..

[Whalen3186]

This is the 2nd year in a row that stock for the Gators has filled in under 6 minutes. Why hasn’t anyone addressed the elephant in the room of how ridiculously easy it is to accumulate grade points in D2?? With the amount of divisionals and national opens offered in the southeast, everyone can easily get 12-15 gp’s in a season.

A few short years ago many guys were b!tching about how hard it was to get gp’s in d2. Now there’s more gp opportunities than any other division in the country and you wonder why a race fills so quick. This is capitalism working at its finest to fix a problem that NHRA created.

Quotas are half of what they should be, especially for a 4 day national event. That deserves a whole other thread and NHRA should do more to meet customer demands/expectations for the sportsman racer.

[Ron Ortiz]

Not all of D2 has easy access, down in south Florida it is a long haul just to get out of the state. I really feel for the racers out in the northwest, it's closer to Mars than a divisional. The northeast has tracks everywhere, just takes a long time to cross a street.
Every national event should cater to the area they are in. Local (statewide) racers should be able to attend national in their division, along with all the other traveling "pros". Small quote are a bad thing for racing. A qualified field is way more appropriate. That is why we have divisions.

[Lenny5160]

Originally Posted by Ron Ortiz

Every national event should cater to the area they are in. Local (statewide) racers should be able to attend national in their division, along with all the other traveling "pros".

This kind of thinking is the problem. "The circus is coming to town and I want to be a part of it."

Edit: the above quote is fine. The problem is "The circus is coming to town and, as a local racer, I am entitled to be a part of it."

This is a national racing points series. If you aren't out there running the races needed to compete in the series, you really don't need to be there.

[Dragrac419]

Originally Posted by Whalen3186

This is the 2nd year in a row that stock for the Gators has filled in under 6 minutes. Why hasn’t anyone addressed the elephant in the room of how ridiculously easy it is to accumulate grade points in D2?? With the amount of divisionals and national opens offered in the southeast, everyone can easily get 12-15 gp’s in a season.

A few short years ago many guys were b!tching about how hard it was to get gp’s in d2. Now there’s more gp opportunities than any other division in the country and you wonder why a race fills so quick. This is capitalism working at its finest to fix a problem that NHRA created.

Quotas are half of what they should be, especially for a 4 day national event. That deserves a whole other thread and NHRA should do more to meet customer demands/expectations for the sportsman racer.

Drew,
I think you confused D2 with the D1 schedule as you can get a total of 12 GP's in D2 but you can get a total of 18 GP's in D1 with the divisional and national opens. Have not seen the schedule yet do D2 national opens. If you look at the list of people entered for the Gators majority of them are from D1.

[Larry Hill]

Charlie if you only charged past Champs that no longer race a 15% commission it would be a nice supplement to their income.