Gators S/SS Entries

[Charley Downing]

Wtf is wrong with you guys. This topic gets brought up every year. If you want to race national events then get 6 grading points. It’s that simple no one at nhra gives a **** about your schedule or how far you travel to go to get them. Quotes have been down for years now. Do you think I wanted to travel 1000 miles round trip to St. Louis last fall ? No but I know it’s going to take 4 plus to get into a few national events I wanted to attend.
The system is not broken the people that race understand it

[Frito]

What Charlie Bob said.

[James Perrone]

Originally Posted by Charley Downing

Wtf is wrong with you guys. This topic gets brought up every year. If you want to race national events then get 6 grading points. It’s that simple no one at nhra gives a **** about your schedule or how far you travel to go to get them. Quotes have been down for years now. Do you think I wanted to travel 1000 miles round trip to St. Louis last fall ? No but I know it’s going to take 4 plus to get into a few national events I wanted to attend.
The system is not broken the people that race understand it

True. That,!!!!! Charlie Bob. On the $$$.

[Angelo DiTocco]

Not that it matters any at this point..... but anyone who has been around long enough would remember..... before NHRA began implementing these quotas..... when fields were basically open to 128 entries..... none of this grade point stuff was an issue. You had to have at least one grade point to enter a National Event but I don't recall anyone getting shut out of a race they wanted to attend. It's the limits on entries that is responsible for this problem. Through out the 90's - before quotas - at the National meets here in the Northeast, I remember the number of SS entries being somewhere between 80 & 90 cars.... and Stock between 95 & 115. The Div 3 races were probably a bit higher than these but not by a tremendous amount.
We all know these numbers declined over time. It would be interesting to know the exact number of racers (in all the sportsman categories) who aren't getting in to national events that they would actually otherwise attend. It may not be all that many. With that data, it's possible the SRAC reps could request that quotas be adjusted so that the racers who fall into the above category would have the opportunity to get in to the one or two national meets they'd like to attend. IDK - maybe I'm totally off base here. The whole thing isn't really that important to me.... To those that it is still important to.... if you don't have the time to make it to more points meets to build up grade points.... you could consider showing up with rental car right before tech closes, pay the entry, get teched in, and turn around and go home. It's essentially buying grade points.... I personally wouldn't do it.... but if running a national event is that important to some it might be worth it.

[Mark Yacavone]

Originally Posted by Charley Downing

Wtf is wrong with you guys. This topic gets brought up every year. If you want to race national events then get 6 grading points. It’s that simple no one at nhra gives a **** about your schedule or how far you travel to go to get them. Quotes have been down for years now. Do you think I wanted to travel 1000 miles round trip to St. Louis last fall ? No but I know it’s going to take 4 plus to get into a few national events I wanted to attend.
The system is not broken the people that race understand it

[Ron Ortiz]

Charlie and James, I agree with you 100% on the present situation. But in all honesty, I think it is totally unfair. We used to go to races when there were 128 car fields. People in their home division could attend and there was plenty of room for out of division racers. Now it is a total joke with NHRA's implementation of quotas.

We should not be against each other because of NHRA's disregard of the sportsman racer. And that is what it boils down to. Why are there only limited spots available, BS, I see racer against racer due to this fiasco.

I just don't understand this nonsense. Why should any racer be relegated to this format.

Ron Ortiz
U/SA BS

[Strawboss]

NHRA does what they want to do and they don't care if you like it or not. I went to OHIO VALLEY last year on FRI paid my money went thru tech and they took my tech card. Then late fri night NHRA loaded up and took off and said that the race never happen no grade point. They said they couldn't agree on a rain date so they said the race never happen no grade point. I wanted to go to the Gator's but only had 4 grade points to use. If they hadn't cheated me out of that grade point I would be entered now. We would have went to more races last year but couldn't. I tried to email several people but no one would return an answer. So we race in their world and they call the shots if you like it or not they really don't care.

[Don Kennedy]

Most of the racers understand the way NHRA system works with Grade points ,never assume they don’t is best , but what I am confused about is the quota limit financially does not make “cents” if NHRA allowed just 100 more racers into a meet that would equal 100 more per race times 24 races so let say that each racer spends at most $500 so let me do the math 24 races times 100 is 2400 more entries at $500.00 each is 1.2 million .This is not chump change for any accountant or corporation .
If NHRA would just let 100 more racers into a meet ,let say who wins . The Racers , The Drag Strip Owners, The Sponsors, The Fans, and the Accountants of NHRA ,so can someone tell me why there is such a low Quota ???now if the quota is not changed just wait and see the entry cost will go up > I think I know the answer but I need other opinions?

[kansas stocker]

Don, you've brought up the point that I have been trying to understand for the last couple of years. Maybe someone from NHRA can explain that for us.
My friends that rope in the PRCA are facing the same problems.
Pete

[Larry Hill]

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