Just got this email from IHRA... - Page 3

Gary Smith · 04-10-2009, 10:09 PM

Here's one: Where's Bo? (aka Bo Butner) Answer: Same place where Jules & Rich Schoenberger ... went NMCA racing!!

I know, I know...these guys where comp racers. But a good indicator of things to come. I got into a long conversation with Jules & a couple former comp racers a few years back who said "NHRA is gonna have to get their ***** together soon or there will be no more racers, especially after what they did to PST".

Both Bo and Jules have converted super mod cars that are now running heads-up outlaw "street" racing and probably never gonna look back. I also noticed the NMCA Nostalgia Muscle Car classes where the '65 will be headed.

IHRA will be there for performance based S/SS competition. Otherwise there's PLENTY of shoe polish racing at SSSSA, ECSSA, and a ton of other associations, offering 10 times the fun over ANY NHRA enhancement!!!! Times are-a-changin', but NHRA isn't

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I still can't grasp how anyone pay fees as ridiculious as NHRA and claim to have fun unless they win or get runner up. I've said it before & will say it again, NHRA will not survive on John Force and Don Schumacher alone. And that's pretty much all that's left. (AJR will be in the mid-east by 2012).

Ed Wright · 04-11-2009, 09:00 AM

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Originally Posted by luckydog

Seriously??? That extra 3 - 5 seconds is worth the sore butthole? I personally couldn't care less!

IHRA and DAMN proud of it!!!

Seriously, and my butthole is not sore. I belong to and enjoy running both NHRA and IHRA. It takes special circumstances for me to run 1/8th mile. I have run 1/8th mile and have had no problems adapting to it. I think it is easier, that may be why some prefer it. It seems to me bracket oriented people like 1/8th mile better than the performance oriented racers. Fortunately for me there is a nice 1/4 mile track across town. Mike Edwards, V. Gains, the Freeman family, and several Comp racers test there all the time. If I lived in a rural area with only 1/8th mile tracks, maybe I would learn to like it better.

Ed Wright · 04-11-2009, 09:47 AM

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Originally Posted by treessavoy

I received the same message since I just joined the IHRA and I think it will help the perception of the organization....BUT....there was a hidden message in the email, it said....."I just got fired!"

Guess I'm a little slow. Where did it say that?

treessavoy · 04-11-2009, 11:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Ed Wright

Guess I'm a little slow. Where did it say that?

Your not slow, it evidently was hidden behind the text and was written in red. I don't even know how it appeared but I had read the message then clicked away to another email then clicked back to the message and there was the message!.........strange!

treessavoy · 04-11-2009, 08:29 PM

This is to all the guys that race 1/4 mile, since you don't like 1/8th mile racing could you tell me how you got to the 1/4 mile without passing the eighth?

Just wondering?

bill dedman · 04-11-2009, 09:19 PM

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Originally Posted by treessavoy

This is to all the guys that race 1/4 mile, since you don't like 1/8th mile racing could you tell me how you got to the 1/4 mile without passing the eighth?

Just wondering?

I think that's probably the best post I have ever read on this forum.

udog1 · 04-11-2009, 11:11 PM

I just got home from a race @ Immokalee and recieved my email from IHRA.This is why after 50 years of racing NHRA I only race IHRA. Way to go IHRA!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jim Woods · 04-13-2009, 06:07 PM

any additional ideas for my above posts?lets hear from you

04-10-2009, 10:09 PM	#21
Gary Smith Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Greensboro, NC Posts: 820 Likes: 9 Liked 132 Times in 30 Posts	Re: Just got this email from IHRA... Here's one: Where's Bo? (aka Bo Butner) Answer: Same place where Jules & Rich Schoenberger ... went NMCA racing!! I know, I know...these guys where comp racers. But a good indicator of things to come. I got into a long conversation with Jules & a couple former comp racers a few years back who said "NHRA is gonna have to get their ***** together soon or there will be no more racers, especially after what they did to PST". Both Bo and Jules have converted super mod cars that are now running heads-up outlaw "street" racing and probably never gonna look back. I also noticed the NMCA Nostalgia Muscle Car classes where the '65 will be headed. IHRA will be there for performance based S/SS competition. Otherwise there's PLENTY of shoe polish racing at SSSSA, ECSSA, and a ton of other associations, offering 10 times the fun over ANY NHRA enhancement!!!! Times are-a-changin', but NHRA isn't . I still can't grasp how anyone pay fees as ridiculious as NHRA and claim to have fun unless they win or get runner up. I've said it before & will say it again, NHRA will not survive on John Force and Don Schumacher alone. And that's pretty much all that's left. (AJR will be in the mid-east by 2012). __________________ Gary Smith "another broke racer spectating"

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treessavoy VIP Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Dunnellon,FL Posts: 1,103 Likes: 0 Liked 4 Times in 4 Posts	Re: Just got this email from IHRA... This is to all the guys that race 1/4 mile, since you don't like 1/8th mile racing could you tell me how you got to the 1/4 mile without passing the eighth? Just wondering?

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udog1 Junior Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: So. Ga Posts: 32 Likes: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Just got this email from IHRA... I just got home from a race @ Immokalee and recieved my email from IHRA.This is why after 50 years of racing NHRA I only race IHRA. Way to go IHRA!!!!!!!!!!!!

04-13-2009, 06:07 PM	#28
Jim Woods Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: celina, ohio Posts: 623 Likes: 4 Liked 12 Times in 7 Posts	Re: Just got this email from IHRA... any additional ideas for my above posts?lets hear from you __________________ Jim Woods