Being displaced at a national due to weather

Chad Rhodes · 10-02-2011, 10:55 AM

We have seen this happen several times now, and NHRA has taken several different approaches. They have moved sportsman to a different facility, and the have postponed them to another weekend. Either way the spectators are not getting to see the sportsman cars run.

In my opinion, ideally, they would upgrade the facilities to accomodate the number of cars and the types of rigs that are common these days, but i know that's a huge investment and not very feasable at some places. So given the following options, which would most RACERS prefer?

a) postpone a week at the same venue, with the offer of free secured parking between events

b) find a suitable venue within a few hours drive (if possible), send the sportsman cars there to run their program down to 16 or 8 cars. At that point they could return to the original venue once the non-qualifiers and some of the alcohol cars are gone, and park on the pavement.

a) is what was done in Reading, b) is what was done in Gainesville a few years back.

My personal opinion is that it is in the best interest of MOST racers to race in the original time alloted, and not have to reschedule vactation and travel time, flights, hotels, etc and just go down the road and race. I would much rather do that than have to either tow home and back again, or fly/rent a car and leave the rig. What is the general consensus?

View Poll Results: postpone or go to another track
postpone at the same venue	43	56.58%
complete event at another venue reasonalby nearby	33	43.42%
Voters: 76. You may not vote on this poll

10-02-2011, 10:55 AM	#1
Chad Rhodes VIP Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Where the Green Grass Grows, AL Posts: 2,375 Likes: 0 Liked 3 Times in 3 Posts	Being displaced at a national due to weather We have seen this happen several times now, and NHRA has taken several different approaches. They have moved sportsman to a different facility, and the have postponed them to another weekend. Either way the spectators are not getting to see the sportsman cars run. In my opinion, ideally, they would upgrade the facilities to accomodate the number of cars and the types of rigs that are common these days, but i know that's a huge investment and not very feasable at some places. So given the following options, which would most RACERS prefer? a) postpone a week at the same venue, with the offer of free secured parking between events b) find a suitable venue within a few hours drive (if possible), send the sportsman cars there to run their program down to 16 or 8 cars. At that point they could return to the original venue once the non-qualifiers and some of the alcohol cars are gone, and park on the pavement. a) is what was done in Reading, b) is what was done in Gainesville a few years back. My personal opinion is that it is in the best interest of MOST racers to race in the original time alloted, and not have to reschedule vactation and travel time, flights, hotels, etc and just go down the road and race. I would much rather do that than have to either tow home and back again, or fly/rent a car and leave the rig. What is the general consensus? __________________ Chad Rhodes 2113 I/SA