Indy Washout and scheduling scam Apology

[PONTIAC'S REVENGE]

Dear fellow Super Stock Racer's,

I would like to apologies.

I would like to apologies for certain "Hoosiers" that were responsible for the decision making of the rain delay schedule of the Indy Points meet. It never ceases to amaze me how unthoughtful and prejudicial a person can be with your time and your investment. I appreciate you if no one else does in the great state of Indiana.

Some of you spent hours preparing for a very "iffy" race but around 80 cars showed(not sure of count). This shows a great support and customer base that I would appreciate at every function if this were my business. If anyone knows that it's hard to "please everyone" it's me. Try taking a phone call with a pregnant mother with a frig out!

For those of you who didn't know, Super Stock was the only category that didn't get a qualifying attempt. Stock, Super Street, and Super Gas got TWO qualifying attempts. Friday the rain came right as they called SSers to the lanes. They should have started where they left off ESPECIALLY since rain was being predicted for 3 days. BUT, the decision was to start over again the next day, with the run order. THEN because they wanted to run TS and Comp along with the SKIDOO show they went around Super Stock, bypassing us again to add insult to injury. After the skidoo's ...here came the rain again.

Now...you can blame Mother Nature if you want, but I think the decision was thoughtless and selfish too skip us and was done without FAIRNESS IN MIND. I wanted to apologies for the selfishness of this decision for all you guys that took off work and spent thousand of dollars to try and make our divisional race one of the MOST ATTENDED in the country. I appreciate your support and HOPE these decisions to categorically disrespect you are not repeated.

Please may I here from you.

with sincerest humility,
Stacy McCarty

Nice thread!

[mannymen]

Snowmobiles seem to be more popular to the few fans that were there to watch. From the fans: Cool man a snowmobile ran 8 seconds in the quarter mile. The next line that came out was the bragging about a snowmobile being faster than most of the cars.

[Chuck Beach]

Maybe it's time to build a skidoo 'belt sander', probably much cheaper than a SS car to build, run and maintain, you get a premier parking spot and qualifying money to boot. And the best part of all, it can rain or snow and you can still make a run !!

[CycloneFE]

Or, refinish a hardwood floor!

[Dgal]

Originally Posted by Chuck Beach

Maybe it's time to build a skidoo 'belt sander', probably much cheaper than a SS car to build, run and maintain, you get a premier parking spot and qualifying money to boot. And the best part of all, it can rain or snow and you can still make a run !!

Yeah, but then Ford will come in and attach a leaf blower then here we go again with....this cannot be right! There are no leaves with snow! So how can this be in the spirit of the snow mobile class.

[W J]

Originally Posted by Dgal

Yeah, but then Ford will come in and attach a leaf blower then here we go again with....this cannot be right! There are no leaves with snow! So how can this be in the spirit of the snow mobile class.

Uhhh.....Most of the fastest asphalt sleds already are turbo-equipped, case you didn't know..... WJ

[X-TECH MAN]

Originally Posted by Dgal

Yeah, but then Ford will come in and attach a leaf blower then here we go again with....this cannot be right! There are no leaves with snow! So how can this be in the spirit of the snow mobile class.

I thought the new Mustangs already had leaf blowers attached to them and that was one thing everyone is complaining about?

[W J]

Originally Posted by mannymen

Snowmobiles seem to be more popular to the few fans that were there to watch. From the fans: Cool man a snowmobile ran 8 seconds in the quarter mile. The next line that came out was the bragging about a snowmobile being faster than most of the cars.

Almost all the fans I've talked to really like the sleds.....especially when they are running at 1/4 mi. tracks in parts of the country where snowmobiles are real popular.....like the Midwest (Indy), New England, and many areas of the far North West.....and yes, the fastest 1/4 mi. asphalt-prepped sleds (low 8's, even high 7's) run quicker than most ALL classes of stock and superstock doorslammers.....HOWEVER, being a NEW competition class, they should be scheduled to run LAST at ALL Sportsman race events. Whether it be time trials, qualifying, or elimination runs, they should run last. Pair them up w/motorcycles if you want, whatever....I do think the sleds are here to stay, are exciting to watch, very high-tech, and once the snowmobile fans hear they're running at NHRA and IHRA events, they will be in the stands in good numbers-----probably MORE of them that are showing up to watch the stockers and superstock cars run at the present time.....sadly enough. What happened with the running order at Indy just proves that NHRA just doesn't have much respect for the stock/superstock racers any more....just my opinion. WJ

[X-TECH MAN]

They are called "SNOW MOBILES" so they should run in January, Febuary and March right after a snow storm along with Top FOOL and the HA HA cars.