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Old 08-07-2014, 07:10 AM   #11
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Default Re: No Sportsmen at IHRA Martin this weekend?

I have scheduled race series before for a number of years and it is very difficult to keep everyone happy. The Martin race is a welcome two day race where we as sportsman racers are the focus not the Pros.
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Old 08-07-2014, 09:01 AM   #12
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I have scheduled race series before for a number of years and it is very difficult to keep everyone happy. The Martin race is a welcome two day race where we as sportsman racers are the focus not the Pros.
Box, what is the payout for the IHRA Sportsman race?
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Old 08-07-2014, 01:23 PM   #13
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Grand Bend was a grand plus all those wonderful stickers. There was 200.00 cheque from Clevite right then and there. That was the Sunday race. Not sure what Saturday paid.
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Old 08-07-2014, 02:02 PM   #14
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Two years or so ago we were in a rain situation and every day they started the practice rotation over. So SS got zero runs in 3 days before it rained. You would think common sense would prevail. However, the third day it finally was time for us to make our first pass, and the snowmobiles got sent down ahead of us in a marvelous moment of "changing the run order." Needless to say it rained before we got to run...again.

Now we know our priority in points races, so we plan to attend the least amount as possible. Of course why run for poor pay outs anyway? Thus our "no SeaDoo" policy.
Wow! I have never been to a track that ran snowmobiles. Really? LOL!
I would addopt the same policy.
I would not go anywhere I knew was running them.
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Old 08-07-2014, 02:22 PM   #15
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Wow! I have never been to a track that ran snowmobiles. Really? LOL!
I would addopt the same policy.
I would not go anywhere I knew was running them.
they run all sorts of crazy stuff in div 3. snow mobiles also known as belt sanders and lots of motorcycle stuff, . draggin baggers. don't know when they have time for the real race cars. LOL
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Old 08-07-2014, 02:28 PM   #16
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Lynn,
Dean won sat. race at cordova and it payed 3800 + with not many stickers.
I didn't look at sunday.

Its going to take time for Scott to turn it around but they are working hard
to get what the monster truck people did to mess it up out of it.

Just wait and give them some time

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Old 08-07-2014, 02:28 PM   #17
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they run all sorts of crazy stuff in div 3. snow mobiles also known as belt sanders and lots of motorcycle stuff, . draggin baggers. don't know when they have time for the real race cars. LOL
There was a young man killed, last year if I remember correctly, at Martin when he lost control of his snowmobile.
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Old 08-07-2014, 02:39 PM   #18
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Looking at other discussions on class racer, people wondering why NHRA can't do double week ends, I think IHRA is right on . Having these double Pro Am races is great . I think we should be supporting IHRA as much as we can.
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looking at other discussions on class racer, people wondering why nhra can't do double week ends, i think ihra is right on . Having these double pro am races is great . I think we should be supporting ihra as much as we can.
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Old 08-08-2014, 09:19 AM   #20
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I like double pro am, I have tryed to figure out though,back when it was single pro am at Mt.Park clay city KY we would have 50-60 stockers 50-60 super stockers show up.
Doubles get 17-25, I know there are several things that changed about the same time, IHRA split into divisions, started doubles and economy went bad,I don't know if it was one change by itself or combination of all three, while division 3 IHRA has struggled.in KY,division 3 in KY NHRA has seemed to keep going strong.
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