Bradenton goes IHRA

[C and W Racing]

Originally Posted by THE LEGEND

1/8th mile vs. 1/4 mile just another excuse for the NHRA racers not to come run a IHRA race. What difference does it make. I understand you like 1/4 mile racing better. I like 1/4 mile racing too. If the races are on the same date, I can understand why you would choose one over the other. What I can't understand is why you would not go if it did'nt conflict with the other?
CHip Johnson

Budget, when I look at the amount of races I might be able to do, I am going to do the one's I enjoy more.
Chuck

[HR9121]

Oh I love it! Shall we start the "N" versus "I" thread again this winter.

[Jim Woods]

I would run 100 ft as long as I was racing.Everyone has there preference, there is nothing wrong with that.It seems there has been a lot of NIHRA racers that have tried IHRA and found it to be a good experience. What is it?, Alot of nhra programs were started in ihra, when nhra comes out with a new (supposedly new idea ) it seems to be the greatest thing since sliced bread, but if it is researched most of the time ihra already had it. I myself am happy both sanctioning bodies exist to give racers more options, There has been 1/4 mile races held and I still have not seen (some) of the nay sayers in attendance.

[THE LEGEND]

Chuck I cant argue the budget debate!

I know I was at Montgomery a couple years ago. They made it a 1/4 mile race and nobody came.

[Super Sport]

Here's the numbers for IHRA to shoot for...

NHRA Bradenton points meet Feb 2011 had a total of 375 entries. Stock had 43 while S/S had 33.

[Ron Ortiz]

OK you guys, here is the deal.
1st week in February is IHRA divisional in Immokalee, a double race.
2nd week is NHRA divisional at Orlando.
3rd week is NHRA divisional at Gainesville
4th week is a bye week. This is the week that racers from up north are heading down for the Gators
1st week of March NHRA divisional in South Georgia, on the way down to the Gators.
2nd week is the Gatornationals.
3rd week is a bye week. This is when northern racers head back or go to Belle Rose
4th week is the IHRA divisional double at Bradenton.

It appears on paper that the car count will not have a lot of northern racers in Bradenton.
But there are a lot of class racers in the state of Florida, they should be at Bradenton. If they do not show it is their loss. We will wait and see how many show, I'll see you all there.

Ron Ortiz
U/SA better have a fat wallet

[Michael Beard]

As Chip said, I was at Montgomery the other year. 1/4-mile, and the closest thing going on was Topeka, of which there was like 1-2 "locals" there. Very poor turnout. Palm Beach, 1/4-mile, same. Ashcroft, 1/4-mile same. Div. 4 races, 1/4-mile, same. Lots of blowing smoke, no support.

Div. 9 schedule just came out. Piedmont and Bradenton are on the same weekend, so there goes that. Rockingham is the same weekend that Palm Beach's website shows a tentative date for their Nitro Jam. Farmington is on the same weekend that the Martin, MI Nitro Jam has traditionally been. Somebody buy my house already. Centrally located, $75K, property taxes $340/year. Seriously. I need to get moved back up north.

[THE LEGEND]

They wait for NHRA to put schedule out so not to schedule on top of those races. THen they go and schedule on top of their own races makes no sense at all.

Who wands to start an over/under on Bradenton. I will throw a number at you 125 cars.
Chip

[Mike Pearson]

Originally Posted by Ron Ortiz

OK you guys, here is the deal.
1st week in February is IHRA divisional in Immokalee, a double race.
2nd week is NHRA divisional at Orlando.
3rd week is NHRA divisional at Gainesville
4th week is a bye week. This is the week that racers from up north are heading down for the Gators
1st week of March NHRA divisional in South Georgia, on the way down to the Gators.
2nd week is the Gatornationals.
3rd week is a bye week. This is when northern racers head back or go to Belle Rose
4th week is the IHRA divisional double at Bradenton.

It appears on paper that the car count will not have a lot of northern racers in Bradenton.
But there are a lot of class racers in the state of Florida, they should be at Bradenton. If they do not show it is their loss. We will wait and see how many show, I'll see you all there.

Ron Ortiz
U/SA better have a fat wallet

This a brutal schedule. Once again the sanctioning bodies and the track operators are blind to the cost implications of that many races in a short time. This in itself will hurt the car count as we have to choose which races we can afford to attend. I plan on attending all of them but I will need to win some cash along the way. I might not get to go to the gators with the reduced field and class being contested there. I only have 3 grade points. My first choices will be the IHRA races. More bang for the buck. Both Immokalee and bradenton are great tracks plus they are double races for the same travel money. Also I have had better luck collecting the contingency money from the IHRA races in comparison to the NHRA races.

Ron, Yall cookin at the races next year??? Hope so.

[Ed Wright]

I've run several Div 4 IHRA races. All 1/4 mile. Don't care for NHRA 1/8th mile races either. Done it, just don't care for it. Slower MPH is safer if you like to slam on the brakes, and fewer feet per second makes driving the finish line easier.
Still like stopping in the middle of sex. LOL