Salt Lake City Nitro Jam

Carl Juliano · 06-21-2010, 06:08 PM

5 cars in Q/R, 2 cars in S/R, "0" H/R's!!!, 2 SS, and 3 Stockers= Major Fail
What happened out there?

danny waters sr · 06-21-2010, 06:39 PM

Gotta give it a little time. Next year should be better.

Jason Oldfield · 06-28-2010, 02:17 PM

A LITTLE TIME?!?! It's going to take QUITE A WHILE to have a reasonable car count when in the 5 most popular sportsman classes they had 12 TOTAL cars (including the 0 for Hot Rod). Of course, it shouldn't be hard to improve on those numbers.

They should have just lumped them all together in a Pro-Comp style handicapped race. That most certainly would have been more entertaining to watch.

In the end though (and I'm sure you guys are sick and tired of hearing me say this), the sportsman car count doesn't matter. It's all the spectator gate. If the spectator gate was good this weekend, then IHRA will be happy. The telling tale will be the spectator gate next year, as if the numbers are about the same or higher then the spectators were obviously pleased with this year's show. If the spectator gate plummets next year, then IHRA is going to need to figure out a different way to entertain the paying fans.

John Kelley · 06-28-2010, 08:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by danny waters sr

Gotta give it a little time. Next year should be better.

Like it was at Crandall ??
IHRA dumped their national event........after only one event.
And they put SLC on the same weekend as a NHRA Divisional at Denver ??? WHY ??

06-21-2010, 06:08 PM	#1
Carl Juliano Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Queens, NYC Posts: 287 Likes: 198 Liked 62 Times in 22 Posts	Salt Lake City Nitro Jam 5 cars in Q/R, 2 cars in S/R, "0" H/R's!!!, 2 SS, and 3 Stockers= Major Fail What happened out there? __________________ Carl Juliano TS 1275 John Juliano SG 151 Carl Sr.

06-21-2010, 06:39 PM	#2
danny waters sr VIP Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: lagrange,nc Posts: 2,224 Likes: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Salt Lake City Nitro Jam Gotta give it a little time. Next year should be better. __________________ Danny Waters, Sr / 73 Duster "340"

06-28-2010, 02:17 PM	#3
Jason Oldfield Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Rochester, NY Posts: 619 Likes: 1 Liked 10 Times in 4 Posts	Re: Salt Lake City Nitro Jam A LITTLE TIME?!?! It's going to take QUITE A WHILE to have a reasonable car count when in the 5 most popular sportsman classes they had 12 TOTAL cars (including the 0 for Hot Rod). Of course, it shouldn't be hard to improve on those numbers. They should have just lumped them all together in a Pro-Comp style handicapped race. That most certainly would have been more entertaining to watch. In the end though (and I'm sure you guys are sick and tired of hearing me say this), the sportsman car count doesn't matter. It's all the spectator gate. If the spectator gate was good this weekend, then IHRA will be happy. The telling tale will be the spectator gate next year, as if the numbers are about the same or higher then the spectators were obviously pleased with this year's show. If the spectator gate plummets next year, then IHRA is going to need to figure out a different way to entertain the paying fans. __________________ Jason Oldfield S/G & S/St 1838