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Most Nostalgia Superstock Eliminators pay $1000 to win, with a $100 entry. No Stock Superstock, or any other sportsman racer can afford to race for trophys. You can tell who the real racers are.

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Last year I stumbled on an event @ Phoenix International Raceway (a NASCAR track). This was some sort of sanctioned road race event. You should have seen the serious race (not street legal) Viper's and Porshe's battling it out and wearing tires and brakes out....for a big trophy. I couldn't believe it!

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To be honest, I would race for free IF the entry fee were reduced to close to zero. But, when you charge me $250 to get in (multiplied by 100+ cars, plus all the pit crew personnel at $150/each), I'm not about to run just for a fancy blob of bronze on top of a wooden pedestal.

Of course, when you REALLY think about it, we basically race for free now...

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Some Carolina tracks have "free entry" races, where you just pay general admission, but they usually have two rounds of buybacks, where the track makes their money.

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It is called "EGO Trophy" :) :) :)

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Sort of like a class trophy??? Some are contested, many are not.

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A Division Director is a position of high responsibility; he's in charge of a LOT.
As such, he's not exactly a "bottom feeder" on the NHRA Totem Pole.

What Craig Hutchinson said in that article probably mirrors the feelings of NHRA's "higher-ups." If it didn't, it never would have made the pages of Dragster.

After reading this guy's assessment of how Sportsman racers should regard what they do (race for trophys), is the mind-set of the braintrust in the Ivory Tower at Glendora a little bit clearer?

Is it a little bit clearer now, how FAR REMOVED from reality these people really are???

If not, go back and re-read the article by this sadly deluded individual, who seems to live in a time-warp of twenty-eight-cents per gallon gasoline, seventeen-cents per gallon Diesel fuel, six-dollar motels, and $20.00 entry fees...

If you're not convinced by then, well... don't worry; be happy.

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Here's some Div. 4 racing for y'all....

March 14-16.....Div. 4 Double Pro-Am ..... San Antonio
April 4-6..... Amalie Oil Texas Nationals .....San Antonio Raceway
April 18-20..... Div. 4 Double Pro Am ..... Tulsa Raceway
May 2-4..... Div. 4 Double Pro Am ..... State Capitol
June 20-22..... Div. 4 Double Pro Am ..... Pine Valley
August 22-24..... Skull Shine Sooner Nationals ..... Tulsa Raceway Park
August 29-31..... Div. 4 Pro Am/ Sports National ..... Dallas Raceway

New this year, all the events are 1/4-mile.

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It is yet to be finalized for the race at State Capitol. My understanding is when NHRA sold the Track to Ronnie West that in that contract it stated that it would always remain an NHRA Track. Even though someone new ownes the track, that stipulation stays with the contract. Also it is my understanding that the top end of the track is still owned by NHRA. I can not see NHRA giving permission to use that part of the track for a IHRA event. I am not sure that thes still apply but that was my understanding a couple of years ago when Ronnie owned the track

Big tires belong on the back !!

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I think the D4 director has forgotten that he has a nice motorhome he travels in and stays in at the track. He also gets premier parking. If he wants us to shrink our operation, then maybe he needs to sell his coach and ride his pitbike back and forth to the local roach motel? It's time for NHRA and it's tracks that get divisional & national events to step their operation up and spend a few bucks on parking and track improvements. Talk about crying, all we ever hear is how much money the tracks are losing, yet they keep building new ones! WTF?

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