Saturday Schedule Change at E'Town
 

Because the weather forecasts are calling for rain, NHRA has announced the following schedule changes for Saturday racing here at Old Bridge Townhip Raceway Park.

There will be no time trials tomorrow for Super Street, Super Comp or Super Gas. Eliminations will start at 10 AM Saturday with the first round of Super Street eliminations.

There will be no additional qualifying runs for Stock Eliminator of Super Stock. Any Stock or Super Stock racer who arrives tomorrow will be added to the bottom of the qualifying order.

Comp Eliminator, Top Dragster and Top Sportsman will have their second and final qualifying sessions tomorrow morning, then go into eliminations.

Jim

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Whopping 30% chance of rain tomorrow and banker hours at etown lead to missing a qualifying run? OK so whoever comes now gets added to bottom of the ladder but what happens to any DQ's in stock and super stock? Do they get added to ladder or do they get sent home?

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Bobby,

The weather forecast is calling for heavy rain and heavy winds tomorrow afternoon.

Stock and Super Stock racers who have not made qualifying runs will be added to the bottom of the ladders. Not sure about the racers who DQ'ed.

Jim

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Jim that is fine and I understand that but it is only Saturday and Sunday looks great. If you wake up in the morning and it is raining then you don't race, fine I understand that, and then you go into eliminations first thing Sunday. Why cancel a day of scheduled racing because the day before they are calling for a chance of bad weather.

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Completely agree.

I think this is backward...if they are calling for heavy rain on Sunday, then try to run the race on Saturday. But what D1 is doing here makes no sense.

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Because there is an early curfew on Sunday. If you don't get far enough into eliminations on Saturday, there is no way to finish the race on Sunday. So the idea is to make sure that they get far enough into eliminations on Saturday so that they can finish Sunday.

The Friday night curfew was 6 p.m. Sunday's curfew is 7:30 p.m. You can't start unmuffled engines before 10 a.m. any day of the week. If you wait until Sunday to start eliminations at E'town, you are likely not to finish them.

Jim

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I happen to love Englishtown but with their curfews maybe they shouldn't have the race. It is the same thing every time there. Some tracks can't hold a race because they aren't big enough. Maybe it is time to say that a track shouldn't have a race because of the time restraints that limit the racing. It is unfair to take it out on hardworking individuals who may be working and want to show up on Saturday for their one hit.

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Perhaps, Brian, but that's not a discussion I am qualified to get into. I only posted this to let people know of the change.

Jim

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Weather.com says Virtually no chance of rain until the 30% chance of rain from 4pm-6pm. Then 60% chance at 7pm.. Isnt etown usually secured and on lockdown by 4pm anyway.. No reason to not get the third hit. Sunday has no chance of rain from weather.com either.

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I agree with Brian VanPoppel it's time to move this race or stop adding top dragsters and top sportsman ect. when you can't get your normal NHRA eliminators a fair amount of time on the track. I have nothing against TD & TS but this is not the place for extra cars.

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Mr. Valentine, I, as well as many others like the Top Sportsman/Dragster classes, seeing as it reflects more of the grass roots of drag racing(running all out). If your asking opinions on how to shrink the fields, I would say get rid of Super Comp and Super Street. Most Super Comp guys can easily hang with the TD crowd and the Super Street guys can easily run 9.90's so just keep Super Gas. More entertaining and less classes, definitely an improvement. Just my 2cents! Everybody have fun in Etown, b safe.

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Sorry guys they aint gonna give you a time shot saturday,,Look at it this way ...at least they made a early decision..Saved money and time..D-1 crew is thinking about the racers that are there at the track racing..Carefull what you wish for" Get rid of Etown race"..Thats JUST STUPID,,,Get over it I have..

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Just saved me a Bunch of Cash !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Perrone, you know me. That goes along with all my other stupid ideas like getting rid of all blue Nova's and shirts must be worn at all times, lol. See when we are home and not racing we get to think up all of this "crazy" stuff.

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Hey, watch it with Blue Novas :-)

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Is there a procedure in place that determines if you are last on the ladder or 102,101,etc?

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Weather.com was wrong as it was raining when you posted that message this morning. The 30% chance for 4 - 6 looks a bit off compared to other weather services, and if you look at the radar to see what's to the west of us.

Jim

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I say get rid of everyone who wears blue shirts!

Jim

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This is genius. Sorry Jwsamuel I did botch the weather forecast earlier but I was only reporting what was on weather.com from my hotel room.

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Brian...hahahahahahahahahahhahha!!!....That hurt,,
Ouch....It sucks I want to race.Seems like a lot of guys have more guts than us..Good luck to all....See you soon ..

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I would rather have been racing in Etown in stead of being home but after last week in INDY and now the delay at Etown I'm glad I stayed home . Very bad storms in the DC area now all heading north .

Hope it all passes by for the racers at Etown , good luck guys

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Can't see E'Town without a points meet...an "adjustment" with the amount of classes run...might be the key here...and at other locations...with time or even pit space constraints.....

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The Div 1 staff has been making the right calls. After the horrible weather we had last year they have been doing everything in their power to get things finished when we are at a race, without rescheduling. Nobody can control the weather. I would not have liked to show up this morning, paid 170.00 and had to race first rd. But sometimes they have to do what needs to be done to get a race in. Can't make everyone happy all the time.