Both or neither this week in Phoenix!!!
 

If losing .3 of a second, and altitude correction factors originally dubbed for Super Class racers (et.al.), weren't enough, now I can't even race my local divisional points race! Why? Because I can't afford to race both of the upcoming LODRS races being held this week at Firebird International Raceway. $330 bucks is a lot of money for two divisional races, and at no other time in the year will a divisional event have back to back races. Yet in order to run the first of the two, you have to pay for both (or you don't get to play)!

Try as I may to support the NHRA (or was it the decision of our Div. Director Mike Rice, or possibly the track manager Charlie Allen?), I now have another reason why I wish (pray) that the IHRA will continue to grow, and strengthen their efforts to move out west here with their "Pro-Am" series! They have back to back divisional races every year and you are not required to enter both to participate in either (and their divisionals are $135 bucks regardless of division)! All I wanted to do was enter one divisional points race, that would allow me the chance to earn some points, hang out with my buds, and if I didn't win enough rounds to earn the funds for race #2, to pack up and go home, but NOOOO!!! Not thanks to this sanctioning body, or div. director, or track manager (or all of the above)!

For a sanctioning body who says the sportsman racers are the "backbone of our sport", this sure is a nice way of proving it....NOT!!!

Re: Both or neither this week in Phoenix!!!
 

That BLOWS!!!

Re: Both or neither this week in Phoenix!!!
 

Maybe it's a sign that stock class drag racing has gotten to expensive for you. There are other options. Stick with brackets or find a way to increase your income. Lots of gold laying around in Arizona. Buy a detector and get ya some of that yella stuff.

Re: Both or neither this week in Phoenix!!!
 

Perhaps for you to...I mean t-o-o

.... after searching 6674 in DRC

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WTH...

Ron

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"Yet in order to run the first of the two, you have to pay for both (or you don't get to play)!"


Gary you have to be pulling our legs. This doesn't make sense.

Re: Both or neither this week in Phoenix!!!
 

There's no mention of having to run both races in their ad.

I am blown away at the price of crew passes at $30 per day! Test and tune $95!!

There should be some kind of discount when someone enters both races. Especially for the crew passes.

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5-day crew pass $120--4-day spectator pass $90 i guess there's a $30 charge so your crew can help you park! gary clarke

Re: Both or neither this week in Phoenix!!!
 

* Plus $10 a day parking

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Gary,

I'm believe the title of your post is wrong and you worded it that way because it sounds better and gives you another opportunity to bash the NHRA. If you want to run just one race you have to run the second one. I'm pretty sure you knew that, but failed to mention it because it sounds better.