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Old 01-28-2012, 12:35 PM   #4
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Default Re: Petitioning NHRA to Open SS @ Gainsville

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For those of you who are unaware Gainsville Super Stock is FULL! I am petitioning NHRA to open it back up and allow at least another 20 entries. This is the first time in three years there is class for SS in Gainsville and with a few of us with plans to vacation during this event I find it somewhat disconcerting that with another year of low car counts forecasted, NHRA wouldn't open the class back up. Not to pick on index classes but S/C has less than 20 entries for 110 spots! Reduce them to 90 and give us 20 more. The last race that needed 5 Grades to get in, guaranteed, was Indy 2007! I just don't want mid March to come along and be watching half fields going down the track and knowing that NHRA could have done something to help out a class which had a waiting list.

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Several of us division 2 super stock racers have asked Rick Shaffer to step in and do just what you are asking for. He has only been the Div 2 director for one season and is a little out of touch with the history of the gatornats and when class was a regular part of the program. Mike Crutchfield our SRAC rep thought that maybe they might open up some spots. I sent Rich an e mail and his response was the quota was low because of the low car count at last years gators plus Atlanta and Charlotte last year were also short car counts. I think they would have had 100 cars. As it stands right now with the guys that are entered there will only be 9 class runs. The rest will be in the combos. Not a very good show seeing how we need the sponsors to get back behind the class competition. Maybe they will do the right thing.
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