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...

Re: A solution to the grade point issue
 

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

Re: A solution to the grade point issue
 

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