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Originally Posted by ss3011
I am not sure if you were racing in the early 80's when IHRA had a fantastic Stock and Super Stock program . Their National events were great and had sportsmen fields that rivaled NHRA . That changed in a big way when Billy Meyer bought the sanctioning body and dumped Stock, Super Stock , and Modified , and replaced them with index classes like 12:50 , 11:50 , 10:50 ...etc . They did that for several years until Meyer sold the business and the new owners put Stock , Super Stock , and Modified back in the program and kept Hot Rod , Super Rod , and Quick Rod . Problem was that they never got the Stock and Super Stock racers to come back in any quantity . Some of those racers probably left with a bad taste in their mouth , having spent good money to run some of the IHRA classes that didn't have a direct cross-over to NHRA . That's why NHRA will never drop Stock and Super Stock , they wouldn't want to lose a big portion of their base .
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Yes I was ...living in Georgia or Florida ..everything was NHRA
Dumping S/SS was not a good idea and they did it again.
Just a matter of time when IHRA goes away.
Their competition are the associations no longer NHRA.