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Originally Posted by Ed Wright
Gary, when we have them stacked on top of each other around here, there are open weekends around them. Guess I'm not smart enough to understand it.
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Ed, since you live in Tulsa, Ok., you have several options that are within a 500-600 mile towing range (one-way and with both sanctioning bodies), of your home base. Unless I moved up to either Boise, Id. or Salt Lake City, Ut. (if not to a mid-western state similar to yours), I don't have that flexibility of 2+ different divisions that I could race in (nor would I have the two different sanctioning bodies I could enjoy (unless Rocky Mountain Raceway either gives us sportsman racers a second chance, and/or S.I.R. becomes an IHRA sanctioned track). Spokane, Wa. is far enough from Denver, Co., that no D6 cars will show for the D5 race (or vice/versa). However, D6 & D7 messed up last year by hosting their Spokane, Wa. & Fallon, Nv. divisionals the same weekend, and because of it they both had meager car counts...they learned their lessons since it won't be like that this year! Unfortunately we don't have the luxury of such stacking of events out here in the western three div's. (especially without the IHRA option), so we have no concept of what you central/eastern racers get to choose from (hopefully the possible addition of Tucson to the IHRA family will start a process that will give us that, and maybe an IHRA division of our own to boot that would start by housing RMR, & SIR within it?). I'm sorry, that you have to choose what championship you want to chase the most, and plan your races accordingly, but it must be nice to have those options....