A solution to the grade point issue
 

Here's my solution,
Anyone without a grade point that would like to run a National event that is not at the quota, may purchase a grade point from the NHRA for the cost of a Divisional entry plus a reasonable amount of travel money. My thought would be around $600.00

Why not?

Re: A solution to the grade point issue
 

Why not? Because they do not need another excuse to take money from racers for no purpose.

Re: A solution to the grade point issue
 

i think it was meant as "tongue in cheek" unless your famous these are the prices and rules we have to abide by to get in...

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Cause the big buck guys could send in for 6 or more points shutting out the other racers.

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Heck I can go actually run the race for half that, have a good time and if I'm lucky make a dollar. If I didn't have a Nat. in my back yard I guess I wouldn't even worry about it at all. Joe How' bout buy a grade point from another racer?

Re: A solution to the grade point issue
 

Art,
I said a (single) grade point, not mulitple grade points. I also specified that the race had to not have the quota filled.
Could we stay on topic please?

See you at the races.
Wayne Kerr,

Re: A solution to the grade point issue
 

Why not just open the field to anyone who wants to race and do away completely with grade points?

Way back when I raced AHRA all you had to do was show up at the gate and pay your money. It seemed to work fine and that's the way the nhra started.

JimR

Re: A solution to the grade point issue
 

JimR, cut it out. That is so far fetched. Showing up at a race and paying at the gate. That must be something else. Paying at the gate ha ha ha. ...................wait a minute. I did that at Belle Rose, and it was great. I change my mind, JimR has got the answer. Thank you JimR, can you please persuade the HRA's to do that.

Ron Ortiz
U/SA at the gate, thats funny

Re: A solution to the grade point issue
 

IHRA still does it this way also. It would be the smart thing to do especially in this economy but there would be a major drop in people attending the points races and opens and that would hurt the smaller tracks. The last NHRA race I raced in was the 1978 Sports Nationals at Bowling Green Kentucky and all I had to do was send in my entry. I had no grade points. By the way it was $40 to enter....lol.

Re: A solution to the grade point issue
 

and techman... the payout was exactly the same as it is today...

captain

Re: A solution to the grade point issue
 

"Why not just open the field to anyone who wants to race and do away completely with grade points?"

That would just about be the death knell for points meets, wouldn't it,Jim?
Who would go to them at that point, unless they were just down the street.
The Divisionals entry / payout ratio would then have to be adjusted to be at least the same as a mediocre bracket race.
Never gonna happen....

Re: A solution to the grade point issue
 

I think the payout was BETTER in 1978 than today. I was runner up for class so I didnt win any money. You also had to win class to run the eliminator.

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In 78 you could make about $1200 or so for a points meet win. And about $7500 for a National. And we were pretty decal'd up.
You do make more now but the expences way exceed the returns.

Re: A solution to the grade point issue
 

Dont forget that the $1200 and the $7500 would be a lot more in todays money if all else was the same.

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Yeah, back then, $7500 would just about buy you a really nice new truck to tow with. A similar truck today would cost you $40K or more.

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I agree, but the $40 would be worth more also.
It is much more expensive to race now and the level of competition is way up.
There aren't many first round turkeys anymore.

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Please take your thread jacking NHRA bashing to your own thread.
I was offering a suggestion to eliminate the other pi$$ing and moaning about Kurt Busch, Roy Hill etc.
You could name your thread "A thousand reasons why I hate the _HRA"
We actually like racing in the NHRA, yes there are things that could be improved, but it's still the best game in town.

See you at the races,
Wayne Kerr

Re: A solution to the grade point issue
 

You can and its a lot cheaper than that, grab one of the Family Sedans or a rental that is in the guides and Tech through.

Simple, I did it with the Pacifica....

Found out I didnt have to lay down that blistering 25 second pass while I changed the CD to "Cracklin Rosie" but , oh well.....It makes for an interesting story......bad decisions almost always make for good stories as Mandie has a sticker on her fridge that says that Im starting to believe it.