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Originally Posted by X-TECH MAN
Its not about hate.....Its about TIME. TRACK TIME. If the weather gets a little dicey then what gets put behind. Yes....the stock and S/S racers. Let the sleds run at their races but let the sportsman racers have their race at the one GOOD sportsman race of the year. You dont see Comp, S/S, and stock, etc. wanting to run at the races where these things run. The Dutch has Comp. Hemi shoot out, stock, S/S, T/S, T/D and all of the .90 classes. There is only so much time in a day during this time of the year. It gets cold, the dew sets in and the weather can change in a moment. Leave the race pure as a sportsman race and take the sleds, and any other add on and run them where they belong. The Dutch has gotten along just fine without this for all of these years. Next thing you know they will have a pit bike challenge and bracket racing thrown into the mix.
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Top Dragster wasn't contested at the Dutch until 2007. Top Sportsman has been there longer, but was there an outcry about these classes being added when they were? I just looked at the schedule, and they don't even have the 1st of 2 Q rounds until the third day of the event, then they go directly into eliminations on the same day. Letting these folks participate isn't a time issue. The predicted time frame for their first round of qualifying is only 15 minutes. I'm going to assume (because I don't know for sure) that these folks are the same folks who have been racing as Pro Stock Snowmobile in both the NHRA and IHRA. If so, as I understand it, they fund themselves like Top Stock used to be. If so, they won't be dial-in -- first to cross the finish line wins. There are no special events to run that could be considered to be a showcase events for them, and being a part of other events doesn't make them showcase (or a circus) either.
Maybe it's just me, but I still don't get why anyone would be opposed to those folks racing at the event. The time they'll use is insignificant.
"Leave the race pure as a sportsman race..." The Hemi Challenge/Shootout is a recent addition to some sportsman events. The .90 classes have been around for quite a while, but some would not consider them to be "pure". Comp hasn't been around forever. Purity is in the eye of the beholder.