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Byron and I were going but had to cancel due to a family funeral

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IHRA Pro Am race winners, Stock Brent Darroch, Super Stock Andy Kronenbitter. Great Race, 5K checks for the Winners and a Racer appreciation dinner this evening

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What indexes are they using for stock and super stock? And what are they using to classify these cars?

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They are using the old indexes from NHRA. Back before they changed them. IHRA was this way before they disbanded Class racing a few years ago. Nothing new here, it's the way they do it. So just add .3 to everything from NHRA. NHRA 10.40 flat index, IHRA 10.70

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The URLs for the broadcasts at SpeedSport.TV:

Friday Pro-Am @ 8am: https://speedsport.tv/videos/42967
Friday Pro @ 3pm: https://speedsport.tv/videos/42966
Saturday Pro-Am @ 8am: https://speedsport.tv/videos/42968
Saturday Pro @ 2pm https://speedsport.tv/videos/42971

I haven't checked, but there may also be broadcasts/videos on IHRA.tv on YouTube

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Shout out to Zac Ross for his R/U in Stock and Super Stock. Great racing family. Pity more racers didn?t show up but served as an icebreaker anyway.

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That was really bad-- I hope that he is doing well--- only comment I will make is its probably better that he was slowing or stopped when the explosion occurred as to having occurred when he was accelerating in the run--- I do not think it would have been a good outcome--PRAYERS--FED 387

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Hopefully more show up for the national

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I wish we knew what the answer was for the low car counts, to me this "WAS" supposed to be the same weekend of the D3 / Sportsnats at Columbus so did everyone take back their vacation time when it was announced they were going IHRA?? I mean by the looks of it not many went to SGMP from that area. I mean all of us at one point in time have come on CR to complain about the payouts, I get it....we don't do it for the money but, a $5,000 payout isn't a bad day in the office for only 20+ cars to show up. I've been on the other end as a promoter for big $$$ events along with Mike Beard, Lee Zane & BVP, Dave Ley, Tyler and TB Promotions and the car counts are not enough / just enough to break even and prevent you from stripping on the side to pay the track rental. I mean owning the track you are hosting an event at is even better because you can just take the plus / loss as they come but for most promoters your looking at a track rental for the weekend to cover the expenses and depending on the facility it could be between $25,000 to $45,000 for a 2 day event

From what I've been told the new owner has done everything that was ever asked for by racers, now maybe the communication could have been better because from what I've been told your $300 entry fee also got you 3 crew passes....how many times have we been like "Man, $300 to race and $100 per crew member for 1 race"....so maybe pushing that for Milan will be a big thing, Free Lunch on Wednesday & Racers dinner on Thursday Night, he drove around on a fork lift yesterday with a pallet of ice giving it out to racers who needed it. So, I mean the guy is trying and I wish him success and I'm a little upset I didn't mark this on my calender to go but hopefully in 2026 he sees a big increase in support.

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There are a total of zero (0) stockers or superstockers entered at SGMP from Ohio or Pa.
It doesn't look like to many of those racers went to Columbus.
I'll stick to what I have always said, as has been proven,you could have a s/ss race that pays $10,000 to win for s/ss.
If there is not a Wally involved, hardcore NHRA racers will not show up.
Kudos to everyone that showed up at Columbus this weekend. Some racers had a great payday for a four round race.
Good luck to everyone this weekend for race #2.