|
04-02-2007, 01:52 PM | #1 |
Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 95
Likes: 0
Liked 1 Time in 1 Post
|
NO ROOM FOR SPORTSMAN RACERS AT HOUSTON
They have given all our pit area to Motor Homes on both sides of the track, consession trailers, all sorts of tents, passenger cars, golf carts, Pro Mods with lots of room for each, and Alcohol Funny Cars with lots of room for each. There's just not any pit space left for us and the track just won't spend any money to make more.
Now I'm sitting at home with no transportation and my truck, trailer, race car sitting in an old rice field with 6" of water all around and piles of dirt in front of the truck and no telling when I'll be able to get it out, at least I'm not hundreds of miles from home like some. Nhra took a day of racing away this year and charged us more money to get in and some wonder why the car count is down? I believe it maybe even less in the future. It seems the sport continue's to grow but some of our best tracks are stuck in the mud. Thanks for letting me vent Jeremy |
04-02-2007, 02:47 PM | #2 |
Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: HOUMA, LOUISIANA
Posts: 19
Likes: 0
Liked 1 Time in 1 Post
|
They wonder why racers are quitting, after more than 30 years of racing, it just was not fun anymore, miss the racers, don't miss NHRA......
|
Liked |
04-02-2007, 02:48 PM | #3 |
Guest
Posts: n/a
|
Jeremy, i feel for you, but i am afraid this is a sign of things to come and we keep right on going!
woodro josey I miss Buster Couch and Lex Dudas. |
04-02-2007, 02:51 PM | #4 |
Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: ALTA LOMA , CA
Posts: 92
Likes: 0
Liked 1 Time in 1 Post
|
NHRA= NOT HELPING RACERS ANYMORE
|
04-02-2007, 03:00 PM | #5 |
VIP Member
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Richmond Indiana
Posts: 1,197
Likes: 5
Liked 32 Times in 19 Posts
|
THere are other options available where the pressure is less and the people LOVE SPORTSMAN racing. Try NSCA . TONY will treat you right. Maybe racers should set one meet to try as a group so the friends are all still there AS WELL AS the racing. I bet a S and SS race is there as we speak...Good Tracks too.
It is a hard habit to change on your own but if you got 5 or 10 friends to try it the same meet you would like it. Great bunch of SS nostalgia cars too. GOOD tracks also. National Trail april 28, 29 S and SS combo. Dick Butler 3529 |
04-02-2007, 03:41 PM | #6 |
Member
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Mother Earth
Posts: 265
Likes: 0
Liked 2 Times in 1 Post
|
If I had a Rocket Launcher....
__________________
Rapare-Racing.com |
04-02-2007, 04:31 PM | #7 |
Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 34
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
NHRA needs to stop the insanity. How did we ever let it get this far? The only thing we S/SS have ever stuck together on was the mufflers and a lot of you didn?t want to sign the petition back then, but Dan and I with a hand full kept pushing the issue. A great division 3 tech man told me it was a done deal, but we did defeat them on that issue, the tech man remained neutral on the issue.
Who is the best tech guy in division 3? |
04-02-2007, 06:22 PM | #8 |
Member
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Columbus,Ohio
Posts: 390
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
Everybody in div 3 loves the Red Man.
__________________
Tony Hall 3545 S/ST |
04-02-2007, 06:48 PM | #9 |
Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 34
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
The other one, think BG.
|
04-02-2007, 07:29 PM | #10 |
Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: North Oak Ridge, Texas
Posts: 8
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
I am not a person to defend NHRA, most who know me know how I feel about that particular entity. That being said it needs to be known that Comp and PRO Mod and a few alcohol cars were pitted right alongside stock, superstock, super street and super comp. It was a tough situation at Houston, for once I think NHRA made the right call. If the sportsman cars had attempted to move around it would have made a bad situation even worst. It was a huge amount of rain in a short amount of time and nothing would have changed that.
Gary |
|
|