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Originally Posted by Mike Carr
Alan, I wasn't meaning so much the softer Indexes/factors. I was referring to the IHRA-only classes (SS/Production, Stock/GT, Pure Stock and C/M Stock specifically--you could combine the Truck and EFI classes into regular Stock, ala NHRA). We have several of those that compete in our races. Last year at Hagerstown MD in November, we had fifty-five cars for the weekend. Nine of those were in the above mentioned IHRA sub-classes. I feel allowing any legal car that can compete in Stock or Super Stock, at an NHRA or IHRA event, should be welcomed at any events such as these. We don't have heads-ups in our series, but few, if any, would be switching classes just to avoid such a run. The SS/Production cars, I suppose, could cross over into SS/AS, SS/BS, etc (at a rules disadvantage). But the other sub-classes would be left out, which should not be the case for a good S/SS race for good money (Hagerstown is a $100 entry, $2,000 guaranteed race).
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Mike, I appreciate the input. Again, I am not in any position to make such a decision, and the decision was made previously with the input and blessing of what I saw from the outside to be a pretty large majority of the regular participating racers.
Again, we DO have heads up racing, at the request of the racers, and this I agree with completely. So yes, it does make a difference when people use softer indexes and such to avoid heads up races. I agree with the racers who feel that with out any possibility of heads up racing, we're bracket racing, it isn't a class racing combo.
When you have a regular field of 50 plus cars, it's sort of difficult and risky to demand they accept change to accommodate a few cars that may or may not show up. What I'm saying is that in the past I think I saw maybe 3-4 cars total, and only 1-2 at any one race, that would not fit an NHRA class. I can't say I'd be willing to go tell Dallas or Clay they HAD to accept IHRA classes for those 3-4 cars when the majority of their paying customers were opposed to adding classes.
This has nothing to do with MY preferences, or what I agree with, I have zero control over this decision.