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Old 12-31-2022, 04:01 PM   #15
Charley Downing
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Default Re: Grade Point Alternative

Jason National event quota's I believe started to be published to racers around 2002-2003. before that you had to send NHRA a list of events you wanted to run at and there was an NHRA form you filled out each year for this, then they would approve or disapprove you for the events you requested based on how many grade points you had from the year before. Only down fall to this was NHRA did not tell you how many GP you need to run to be eligible for each national event. It was a guessing game for most. Back then the main unwritten rule was if you ran all your division races you were never denied entry to any national event.

But as we all know rig size grew from 20-24ft trailers and pickups to Toter homes and semi making parking/event space more of an issue. NHRA also claims staying on time with live TV time friday-sunday is there main reason for cutting sportsman entry numbers. (yes I know most of the TV time is not live, Its NHRA excuse not mine) Also with most national events being 3 days now, there is just not the time for 100 car sportsman fields without adding days on the front side of the event which NHRA clearly has no interest in doing.

I mean the easy fix is make these event quota's 80 cars and only take 64 for first round( all but U.S. Nationals ).

Plus side
No Bye runs
No 7 round events
put a little performance back in the class
No sand bagging because you would haft to qualify for the event
AHFS would actually have a chance to would work

Down side
Slow class racer crying they can't qualify
NHRA having to deal with how to get rid of extra revenue, while at the same time not giving it to the racers

The crazy part of this is if you did this at a race like the gators for stk and ss it will be $21,000 more revenue (an extra 30 stk entry's and 30 SS entry's x $350) for the event. It would only be 7 extra pair for round one in each class.
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