Dear Len Imbrongo, NHRA, and all the other people who dont care about sportsman cars

[Sean Kennedy]

Originally Posted by Len Imbrogno

Sean,

I am very sorry to hear about your bad experience at your first national event. When mother nature decides to "enhance" everyone's "experience", it effects all racer; pro and sportsman, as well as the fans, sponsors and NHRA.....basically everyone that had a vested interest in hoping for a successful event.

I wasnt going to say anymore. I wasnt goint to ramble. But Len actualy responded.

Since he opened up the can of worms, here we go.......

First, thanks for responding. If someone is willing to get into this, it means maybe there is some hope. (yeah right, did i say that?)

Sure, the terrible weather had an effect on everyones weekend. But did top fuel, funny car or pro stock get told "we dont have enough time to give you a time run". The fact that there was no time run from SG, SC, Super Stock and especialy comp is absurd. Thankfully i am not one of those classes, but only becasue stock is first out usually. Did mother nature come down and say 'no time runs' or was it graham light?

Not only that, but a lot of people came a long way for this race, and the truth is even if the fans are in the stands for hte pros, it has a much smaller effect on the pros to stay until monday. That is their job and their life, and one more day at the track is not nearly as big of a deal to them. Hell, they are going to just head to Sonoma and stay there so whats the difference. First round of stock was run directly after the final round of funny cars, the last pro final to run.

I had to park my car in the field and pay for parking. Yet lots of those toterhome guys, the ones that you saved spots for up in the good parking lot, by the golf carts everyone was complainging about, they had all kinds of people parked with them, there was like 8 cars parked over there. So you saved them better parking, even though i got in line a week before the god damn event, and you let all their buddies into the pits to park.

If you tell me this has nothing to do with you, all i can say is well if you arent complaining about it too, and working to make things better for us, even if it gets you in trouble, than you really dont care.

So ... specificaly.....

Why did you save a ****load of room for Justin Lamb, Biondo, Fletcher, Turner, etc. ???

I'm supposed to show up early to ensure a good spot, and i did, and i was still down in Egypt.

How can you justify no time run?

If it takes until monday or tuesday (like it did) because of thetime run, i think most would be fine with that.

I wasn't going to rable on, or say anything else but well... Len... you waving it off as just blaming the weather really pissed me off.