What would U change @ IHRA

[THE LEGEND]

I just reread some of the post. Some of you guys are clueless idiots. How many of you were even racing at Rockingham? How many of you have even raced this year. Give these IHRA guys a break. They work about as hard as anyone can and yall still Bitch about something.
I think the SSS guys had every right in the world to be there. These guys race for years to get a shot at their 10 seconds of glory. It was only 16 cars 3 tt and 3 rds thats a total of 38 runs. Thats less than 1 rd of stock qualifying.
You want to fuss about oildowns what about the stocker that left gear oil from the 60 ft to the et shack and a buddy of mine grenaded a motor in his HR car. Look at the positives No wrecks this year, and we got to race.
Chip Johnson

[Mike Galuk]

I think they (IHRA) did about the best they could have done under the circumstances dealing with the weather. I agree that they should go to 4 days for a race. For a three day race to succeed, everything has to be perfect. IHRA made sure everyone got two time runs and safety was a big concern for all cars. I think that no matter what they would have done, a select few would BITCH. Hope everyone has a good off season and find a few tenths under the tree on Christmas morning. Mike

Mike Galuk
JOE COOL RACING

[Bryan Worner]

There are 7 sportsman eliminators in IHRA!!! If you are going to run 7 eliminators along with the pro show (4 or 5 classes) at a national event......I don't care where you are.....unless you have 10 cars in each eliminator, you need 4 days to get that race in at a decent hour on Sunday! Not running 1st round until Sunday night is totally unacceptable, rain or no rain! Get your 2 time runs on Thursday, 1 on Friday and run 1st round Friday afternoon! Just think......half the field could be home, or at another race by Saturday!

What is the difference if you take off on Thursday or Monday???? At least you can plan on taking off Thursday in advance! You're still taking another day off! IHRA does not allow for down time at their national events! Every oil down, crash or rain delay sets Sunday's finish time back!

This is not a bust on IHRA, just my reasoning why I would either have the nationals be 4 day events, or cut some eliminators at the Nationals! When the car counts get high, they can't get them all down the track in 3 days! This has been proven time after time!

[THE LEGEND]

Bryan,
Were you there NO
In my opinion if you were not there then you don't get a vote.
Chip

[danny waters sr]

I was there and working everyday and busting my *****. For one thing ,when we call a class to the lanes you should start your way to the lanes ,instead of waiting to here the first car to go down and then coming to the lanes .if you think about it there is a lot of" waisted" time waiting for some of the laid backs to get to lanes before we start .suppose we start running the first pair and at the same time close the lanes for that class .that would be unfair then because we did not wait for you before we start.i cannot help for down time,that at some point and time is going to happen .you do not understand the other side of running and working an event like this . I will invite any one of you to come and hang with me and other offficials when it is time to pair or run cars at these events .it takes both sides to make this work .some things such as oil downs and breakage we cannot help! I am sorry if you do not agree with me ,but sometimes it is hard to get on this site and read all this complaining and a lot from people or racers that do not even go or were not at certain events.we are more racer friendly than you make it out .you just cannot please everyone .sorry for this long letter.it was meant to be shorter than this .everyone have a great off season.hope to see you next year, thanks to those who understand!!!!!!

[mcaruso]

Originally Posted by danny waters sr

I was there and working everyday and busting my *****. For one thing ,when we call a class to the lanes you should start your way to the lanes ,instead of waiting to here the first car to go down and then coming to the lanes .if you think about it there is a lot of" waisted" time waiting for some of the laid backs to get to lanes before we start .suppose we start running the first pair and at the same time close the lanes for that class .that would be unfair then because we did not wait for you before we start.i cannot help for down time,that at some point and time is going to happen .you do not understand the other side of running and working an event like this . I will invite any one of you to come and hang with me and other offficials when it is time to pair or run cars at these events .it takes both sides to make this work .some things such as oil downs and breakage we cannot help! I am sorry if you do not agree with me ,but sometimes it is hard to get on this site and read all this complaining and a lot from people or racers that do not even go or were not at certain events.we are more racer friendly than you make it out .you just cannot please everyone .sorry for this long letter.it was meant to be shorter than this .everyone have a great off season.hope to see you next year, thanks to those who understand!!!!!!

DW, Sr.- Great job!

[Mike Taylor 3601]

I say cut sportsman classes back to Stk.,S/S,H/R,S/R,Q/R add back a Modified/Comp. type elim.,Take T/S,T/D, ET.out of Natl's why run bracket cars at national event?Anouncers need to be knowledgable of
Stk.,S/S and explain these cars so their people who don't know will learn.I remember the way it was you
class raced if you wanted to go faster you moved up through them stock to T/AD or bracket raced.To many choices takes car counts down in each class.I like change especially when they change it back to the way I liked to start with.
Mike Taylor 3601

[Michael Beard]

Originally Posted by clutch man

I think bryan is right, of course this chip fellow is gonna brown nose for ihra he was this years champ,

Chip was Rockingham's track champion. He has not been an IHRA Champion since 1988, or 2001 if you want to count Bracket Finals.

sss may have only made 38 runs but on sun it took them 45 min to announce them,

SSS cars on Sunday.... 1st round started at 12:47 and ended at 12:55. 2nd round 2:14 to 2:22. 3rd round 4:16 to 4:18. Looks like a total of 18 minutes total track time for them all day on Sunday. Maybe they talked about them for longer.

and the sad thing is even if it was a 4 day race with no rain they probably still couldn't finish.

We DID finish the race in four days, with all the rain, oildowns, breakage, and cold. Another car had broken a rear end, a Quick Rod car broke, etc... all things you couldn't control.

At the Spring race, the last Sportsman final round was run at 4:10 pm on Sunday, and we had also run the Summit All-Stars (56 cars total) on Saturday, so yes, it most certainly can be done.

We all wish things had gone better, but it didn't work out that way. The hyperbole is unnecessary.

I'd rather plan on getting a race done in 3 days and only have to be gone an extra day under extenuating circumstances, rather then 'have' to take off an extra day for every single event. That costs *everybody* more money -- racers, staff, tracks, and the sanctioning body.

[mcaruso]

Originally Posted by Michael Beard

We all wish things had gone better, but it didn't work out that way.

Ya,especially the part where I gave back the finish line by 3 thou in the 3rd round

[Bryan Worner]

Originally Posted by THE LEGEND

Bryan,
Were you there NO
In my opinion if you were not there then you don't get a vote.
Chip

Yeah, Legend, I wasn't there......thank god! But I was there in the spring! And I've been to quite a few IHRA Nationals over the last few years! So I feel my opinion is as good as anyones on this post! Did you start the thread.....NO! So how can you speak for the one who did by saying I don't get a vote?? I guess now it's up to YOU to determine who gets a say! I feel every racer who runs IHRA should be free to voice their opinion.