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Originally Posted by Andys dad
Back to back 128 car classes at the scales to start your morning off right - maybe they will only weigh heads up races
Today - I would Eliminate these non-standard classes -
Street Car Showdown
Gassers
Pro Mod T
Ron
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Agree wholeheartedly! First, any class, elim, or trained dog show whose designation has "PRO" in its name should be pitted on the East side of the track; not in a prime, reserved, protected area, cut out of the center of the Sportsman pit area. The same should apply to the lame "Exhibitions" that NHRA has decided to embrace at the detriment of Sportsman racing. Put these four-wheel jokes (i.e. Car Show) in the spectator parking lot; at least it would guarantee that their target market would be forced to look at them as they walk into the track proper.
Admittedly, I was one of the 20, or so, SuperStockers (stack #472, arrived Tuesday @ 1:00pm) who sat in line 26 hours AFTER parking began Tuesday and wound up on the East side Wednesday afternoon, within a stone's throw of the East side Main Gate. I'm not a happy camper and for the first time in my NHRA experience I'm seriously questioning ever inflicting that much grief on myself again.
Fiasco, falls far short of describing what I witnessed during the stacking/parking debacle Tuesday/Wednesday. They actually parked only 350 rigs (by observed stack numbers) in 10 hours on Tuesday; 35 per hour is ridiculous. They had two yellow shirts in the Sportsman Pits escorting rigs to a parking location, then those two would return to the stack line and escort two more; no exceptions, unless you had someone, already parked, holding a parking space for your rig. NHRA had instructed all stacked rigs to be at their rig, ready to go at 0700 Wednesday morning. After not turning a wheel, at about 10:00 they announced the third re-schedule of Q1 for Stock as 2:00pm...BE READY. The only route into the Sportsman Pits was through the Comp Pit staging lanes, across the Ready Lanes, into the Sportsman staging lanes (wrong way) and out the back whenever your escort arrived. Determined to keep to the now third revision to Stock run schedule at 1:30, a yellow shirt on a pit bike came into the staging lanes and announced "Sportsman Pit is full...no more parking available but we have a place for you. Turn your rig around and follow me to the East side of the track". Following him parking us just inside the East side Main Gate, we went to the Sportsman Pits at 3:00pm to evaluate the "full" conditions. Reality was that there were some moderately undesirable pit spaces left but there were huge chunks of very desirable real estate cordoned-off with crime-scene tape and reserved for ProMod, the Car Show and Gasser time wasters.
IMHO, this entire mess was orchestrated by NHRA and they had NO fall-back plan to solve the mess THEY created.