IHRA Releases Nitro Jam Schedule
 

2011 Nitro Jam Schedule

January 28-29 (Fri-Sat) Palm Beach International Raceway, West Palm Beach, FL

February 19-20 (Sat-Sun) State Capital Raceway, Baton Rouge, LA

March 25-26 (Fri-Sat) Southwestern International Raceway, Tucson, AZ

April 1-2 (Fri-Sat) San Antonio Raceway, San Antonio, TX

May 20-21 (Fri-Sat) Pittsburgh Raceway Park, Pittsburgh, PA

June 17-18 (Fri-Sat) Rocky Mountain Raceways, Salt Lake City, UT

June 24-26 (Fri-Sat-Sun) Castrol Raceway, Edmonton, Alberta

July 16-17 (Sat-Sun) Grand Bend Motorplex, Grand Bend, Ontario

August 12-13 (Fri-Sat) U.S. 131 Motorsports Park, Martin, MI

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What happened to Budds Creek?

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Ya beat be off the line! lol

IHRA also has 2 special sportsman events on tap with more info to follow.
Looks like Virginia stayed put for 2011! :) .....and Budds Creek has one also.

http://www.ihra.com/article/7047.html

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March 25-26 (Fri-Sat) Southwestern International Raceway, Tucson, AZ

And Tucson still has an NHRA division race scheduled for Oct 7-9....

Interesting

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Thanks Ed!!

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Myron, are you coming to orlando for the dec 12 no box?

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No. I got the oil pan off to check things and suspension apart to replace some worn parts. I doubt I'll have time to put it back together before then. But I'll be at PRI Fri. & Sat.

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Closest Nitro Jam race for us is 600 miles away now. I have 4 NHRA nationals within 300 miles. Makes a man rethunk his racing program.
Chip Johnson

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It's the "Wilderness Tour" Chip!! Up here, we pack a bag for ALL the events.

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Feb in Baton Rouge It will be Ficking FAST What a GREAT DATE


Having been racing 30 plus years at State Capitol IT's doesn't get any better

Hell I'm from the North [Louisiana]

Owners has always treated us with respect and If we come early "THAT OK "

Thanks

The memories

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Hey Chip,move your operation up here to NJ and you'll have more close by tracks than you can shake a stick at.Plenty of bracket racing too.

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So no Rockingham? With the D9 schedule not out yet it sure looks more certain that Steve is moving over to NHRA. Since IHRA is sticking with the NitroJam format and some of their races are geographically "diverse" they seem to be resigned to low sportsman car counts.

And SIR's website still shows NHRA banners....silly season indeed.

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Rockingham has a div 9 race and the bracket finals.

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-=sigh=- Earwood said in an interview *weeks* ago that he wasn't having a Nitro Jam, but would still be having a Pro-Am and of course the Team Finals.

The rumor mill says that SIR is purchasing a booked-in nitro show from Feld Entertainment so it's not "technically" an IHRA race. :rolleyes: I'm sure NHRA loves that. I'm guessing it'll just be a bracket race to go with it. I think they'd run into problems if they tried to have an IHRA TOC-Qualifying Sportsman event and try to say it's not an IHRA event. Didn't IHRA do a Thunder Jam or Night of Fire deal at Numidia Dragway (NHRA) a few years ago?

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Michael, I looked at the Rockingham thread on the subject and didn't spot that, thanks for clarifying. It was doubly confusing to me that D9 schedule had not been released as yet even though that's the stronghold of IHRA sportsman racing. I hope you and Chip are correct, without healthy competition NHRA will....well, you know.

I don't recall the Numidia deal but I was actively bracket racing on the west coast a few years ago, one of the class veterans will chime in on that. Amazing that NHRA wouldn't do more than roll their eyes over this...

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Maybe I haven't been paying attention, but anyone know what happened to Dallas Raceway? I know they had a bad outing for IHRA this year and at least one event was weather related. Did something else knock them off the schedule?

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Dallas march 11-13

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Div 9 schedule will be out today. Probably one of the better schedules we have had recently.
Chip

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Division 9 Dates.

March 25-27 Rockingham Dragway
April 29-30 Piedmont Dragway --- This is also a TOC race
May 13-14 Farmington Dragway
June 3-4 Mooresville Dragway
June 24-26 Dunn-Benson Dragstrip

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Couldn't help but notice that Union wasn't on anywhere!
Didn't make it there last season.

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Also Coastal Plains is not on there this year.
Are they going back to NHRA

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Wow no matter where you live your arent very close to more than one national.. Things just keep looking better and better... LOL

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Still IHRA

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Are NJ events both 1/8 mile and 1/4 mile depending on the track?

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most are 1/4 mile but at atco 1st part of the year they only go 1/8mile bracket racing

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If you will notice the div 2 and div4 races have less events also. My opinion is IHRA cut back a couple races to get the car counts up at the ones they still have. I think that is a good move.
Look at division 9 for instance:
Rockingham 50 miles
Piedmont 90 miles
Farmington 125miles
Mooresvile 125 miles
Dunn-40 miles

For someone like Beard that lives in the middle of the state it's less than that.
Then throw in out of division races
Darlington a double-90 miles
Carolina a double-225 miles
Probably two more possibilites of
Richmond double-200 miles
MIR double-300 miles

Then add
VMP Sportsman spectacular-200 miles
MIR Sportsman spectacular-300 miles.

Get the picture now. Thats 15 races in 11 weekends spread out over 7 months. In this economy thats about all most racers can afford and a lot can't even do that, so then they start picking and choosing. THat why races like Coastal Plains had poor car counts the last two years. I'm not going to single them out there were other races too.
Chip Johnson

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Ran all races in Division 9 last year.I am hoping to make at least a couple races this year like Chip said this Economy Sucks...
I have been without a Job since July and still Looking.