2010 IHRA National Event Schedule
 

Crandall and Tulsa are gone. Looks like D4 races are going to do alot of traveling if you want to run IHRA next year.




2010 IHRA Nitro Jam Schedule

Jan. 29-30 (Fri-Sat) Palm Beach International Raceway West Palm Beach, FL
March 6-7 (Sat-Sun) State Capital Raceway Baton Rouge, LA
May 1-2 (Sat-Sun) Rockingham Dragway Rockingham, NC
June 18-19 (Fri-Sat) Rocky Mountain Raceways Salt Lake City, UT
June 25-27 (Fri-Sat-Sun) Castrol Raceway Edmonton, ALB *
July 16-18 (Fri-Sat-Sun) Grand Bend Motorplex Grand Bend, ONT *
TBD U.S. 131 Motorsports Park Martin, MI
Aug. 28-29 (Sat-Sun) Maryland International Raceway Budds Creek, MD
Sep. 11-12 (Sat-Sun) New England Dragway Epping, NH
Oct. 15-16 (Fri-Sat) Virginia Motorsports Park Richmond, VA

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Reading the "entire" article it states that Crandell is not gonna have a Nitro Jam but will still be part of the sportsman series. Sounds like they may still have a divisional race.

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Dumping Crandall was DUMB !!!!
I guess ihra does not want a race in the BIG DFW market ??
I was going to join ihra........no use wasting the $$ now....... :-)

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TBD U.S. 131 Motorsports Park Martin, MI


Maybe I'm reading into this too much,but normally,if dates haven't been decided...it says TBA
"TO BE ANNOUNCED"

To me,TBD means "TO BE DETERMINED",as if it hasn't been decided by somebody to have a race there?

Maybe they want to have a NATIONAL event instead?

They seem concerned about making sure the 1000ft is all concrete.

http://www.us131motorsportspark.com/readmore.asp?id=170

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The IHRA Crandall National event this year was scheduled on the same weekend as the NHRA Heartland Park National event. That timing was almost fatal for the Dallas track. Topeka drew far more sportsman entries from the area....it wasn't even close. The front gate at Dallas was also abysmal.

The facility is IHRA National caliber, and they may well have had the option to try hosting a Nitro Jam event in 2010. If offered the same scenario for next year as was this year, I would have, as a track operator, turned it down.

While on the subject of scheduling, the Utah Nitro Jam event for 2010 is scheduled for the same weekend as what is traditionally the LODRS event at Bandimere. The NHRA Div 5 schedule hasn't been released, but if the Bandimere LODRS is on the same weekend, Utah will be hurt.

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Crandall is a nice little track. Operative word: little. It was almost too small to park all the IHRA div racers. Some were in the mud. It's a nice little local bracket track, they need more room. It won't hold enough race rigs for an NHRA div 4 race. Imho, it's laid out a little strange. I think IHRA needs it. I probably won't run IHRA next year. I'm going to miss them. I really like the officials. Nice friendly folks.
Sure looks like a lot of towing miles.

Don't get me wrong, I really like the Div 4 NHRA officials too. Chuck Nelson and Wesley are the best.
Don is almost talking to me now. <G> The other tech guys are great, I just can't remember all their names. (I'm old)

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Does anybody know why Mr. Earwood isn't coming back for the World Finals?? Maybe it's a little selfish..but it's so close to home..lol..I also understand that Virginia is back with IHRA..(thank goodness)..but why not keep Rock for the fall and add Virginia as a seperate entity...this may be a shot in the dark..as I don't know any of the facts..just sounds reasonable..lol

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Saturation of the market. Comp+ article: http://www.competitionplus.com/index...-morning-news2

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Travis,
Rockingham Raceway needs alot of work. Track and Pits. I have raced there 20 plus years and no improvement. They need to spend some money.:)

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I was told Rockingham would have a fall race (SPORTSNATS MAYBE)???????? I think VMP World Finals was one of those "throw the dog a bone" deals to get them to switch. I also heard Earwood was willing to give up that race to help with the VMP deal. We lost 1 Rockingham race but gained an awesome facility in VMP. It has to help with the future of IHRA.
Chip