Gators S/SS Entries

[MR DERBY CITY]

Originally Posted by SC363

Don, there are other classes effected by the quotas. What if they just allowed 50 more super class cars. We pay the same entry and require a lot less oversight. No tech other than seatbelts, fire suites and helmet, diaper and membership and license. Don’t need anybody working scale no fuel check no making sure the car has the right hood or is in the right class no tear downs don’t need to worry about track prep. We support the manufacturers same as S/SS and and there are way more of use than you.
I’ve seen the idea posted that they allow 70 entries in all the classes and 64 qualify and six don’t make the show. We would probably still need 4 grade points and there would still be people with not enough to enter. Heck if it only took 1 grade point someone would complain they only live a mile from track and should be given preference.

Mr. 363, you bring up a valid point that I have never considered.To increase the car count by ten cars, NHRA would need an additional 60 spots for both stk and SS, sg and sc , and TD and TS if they are competing that weekend...It would be difficult to find the room at Gainesville BUT it could easily be done at Vegas......BTW if anyone ever figures out the NHRA business model, please pass it onto me......

[SC363B]

I have always thought that for ahfs to work you need a bump. If there were more than 64 superclass cars and a bump we would have to try to run .90 instead of just having a time trial. It would be a whole new challenge for the super class racers.
I don’t know why I’m posting my driver has 0 grade points and probably won’t have more than 1 or 2 after next year. After 25 years of chasing NHRA I give up. We have a great track 45 miles from home that runs 10 Q 16 races and we have the Midwest Super Comp Assoc. That runs 13 races with all but one being a weekend double and all are less than 200 miles from home.
Not mad at NHRA still love them just tired. Leave Sat. morning and be home Sat. or Sun. night.

[Casey Miles]

Originally Posted by MR DERBY CITY

Mr. 363, you bring up a valid point that I have never considered.To increase the car count by ten cars, NHRA would need an additional 60 spots for both stk and SS, sg and sc , and TD and TS if they are competing that weekend...It would be difficult to find the room at Gainesville BUT it could easily be done at Vegas......BTW if anyone ever figures out the NHRA business model, please pass it onto me......

This is going to open a fire storm! At Gainesville raceway they say that there isn't room for more racers do to space. The Pro's park their race rigs with all their equipment in the pits and their motor homes are parked outside the pit area. To open up space for more sportsman race cars, why doesn't NHRA have the large motor homes drop their trailers in the pits and put the motor homes outside like the pros? NHRA could impose a specified parking size per entry to allow more entries for the race. Just an Idea and observation!

[jmcarter]

Mark, love the Will Rogers line....yet another classic, only Mark Twain compares.

And devil's advocate here; if they increased the quotas at Gainesville you do know you'd be parked out by the University of Florida agriculture center, right? And if it rains...good luck. There's barely enough room on the asphalt for the Army campus, hospitality trailers for JFR/DSR, TRAXAS car track and the rest of the circus.