IHRA Ends Stock & Super Stock Racing

[MR DERBY CITY]

Originally Posted by Ed Carpenter

Ihra sportsman program failed because of the "I'm too good to run ihra" crowd in nhra. Personally had racers tell me I'm not running my stuff in Ihra. I asked why not real good racers race Ihra. They said Ihra is a second class citizen. Damn must be nice for your **** not to stink. IMHO it's a huge EGO deal. In any event, they killed it for the rest of us. Thanks guys....

Ed, I believe you are painting your statement with a pretty BROAD brush...As far as racers runnng IHRA events, it really depends on where the racers live...Back in the day, IHRA was really strong in the Carolina's, During Bader's regime, Ohio..Michigan , had races with extremely high car counts, ....Nick Morris touched on this sometime ago..If a racer runs a few NHRA national events ,5 or 6 points meets ,throw in a few combos if you are fortunate enough to have them in your area...well there's 14 race weekends right there...With business and family commitments there simply is NO TIME to run other races..

[Daran Summerton]

The car counts suck because the purse sucks will we get a refund on memberships 😁

[EricArrow]

5K bonus at Pittsburgh and Maryland in S/R and still no attendance? Sometimes I wonder what people are thinking. We cry when there's no payout...we cry when it's a one day race...we cry if we have to drive more than a couple hours. This is what we get for our crying. I don't know if I will go to NHRA or just sell my stuff and spend more time with my dogs. But I think there is room for some home grown series expansion at this point. I expect Rob's series to grow next year. Sad deal all and all. I really enjoy IHRA .

[nssracer]

Come and join the fun....NMCA runs a great program with good payouts and great customer service. Here is there 2018 dates,

March 8-11, 2018
16th ANNUAL NMCA MUSCLE CAR MAYHEM • Bradenton Motorsports Park, Bradenton, FL

April 5-8, 2018
10th ANNUAL NMRA/NMCA ALL-STAR NATIONALS • Atlanta Dragway, Commerce GA

May 17-20, 2018
17th ANNUAL NMCA BLUEGRASS NATIONALS • Beech Bend Raceway, Bowling Green, KY

July 26-29, 2018
13th ANNUAL NMRA/NMCA SUPER BOWL OF STREET-LEGAL DRAG RACING • Route 66 Raceway, Joliet, IL

August 23-26, 2018
17th ANNUAL NMCA ALL-AMERICAN NATIONALS • Summit Motorsports Park, Norwalk, OH

September 20-23, 2018
17th ANNUAL NMCA WORLD STREET FINALS • Lucas Oil Raceway, Indianapolis, IN

[mopar68]

Originally Posted by Jim Wahl

Scooter Peaco, IHRA V.P. is quoted in an email to state that "IHRA will be an all bracket racing oriented organization".
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If memory serves me correct, isn't this what Billy Meyer did when he was president of IHRA?

"IHRA headquarters briefly moved to Waco, Texas in 1988 after it was purchased by Texan racer and track operator Billy Meyer who made many changes to the organization, some of which proved controversial amongst racers such as completely restructuring the sportsman classes overnight."

--Wikipedia

[Steve1118]

Originally Posted by mopar68

If memory serves me correct, isn't this what Billy Meyer did when he was president of IHRA?

"IHRA headquarters briefly moved to Waco, Texas in 1988 after it was purchased by Texan racer and track operator Billy Meyer who made many changes to the organization, some of which proved controversial amongst racers such as completely restructuring the sportsman classes overnight."

--Wikipedia

Similar. Actually, he used all index classes. But the timing wasn't right. He was ahead of his time on this. Can't keep an eliminator with a dozen cars running. Times have changed.

[Rod Greene]

Billy Meyer killed IHRA it never fully recovered after his reign

[CMcAllister]

Originally Posted by Rod Greene

Billy Meyer killed IHRA it never fully recovered after his reign

I'm not sure about that. I remember going to some events when Bill Bader had it and the places were out of control they had so many cars show up.