Ok Div. 5, 6, & 7 Sportsman racers.....

[GarysZ24]

Originally Posted by danny waters sr

Nah, just was looking at all the races in general. 125 races in one year is a lot no matter where they are.....It is hard to schedule no matter what you do. Here at home on the same weekend as West Palm IHRA race we have a racers re-union(that i go to every year) with lots of legends in attendence such as Bobby Warren ,Garley Daniels ,Harold Denton , Ed Mcglawhorn ,Troy Dennis, Roy Hill , and the list goes on and on. The weekend before that we also have a bracket /class racer (Steve Taylor) that will be inducted in the North Carolina Drag Racing Hall of Fame along with Sam Carroll, Charles Carpenter, Ronnie Hood , . Then we have a 5 grander Winter series race at my home track (just 10 minutes from home ). I don't know how to get to do all of these things ,just lucky we got all this stuff going on and to be able to have choices......Some areas are not so lucky as this area in general..........Go look under the EVENTS section and you can see what i will be missing $#@$#@$@%@$@.....

Danny, you underscored why I started this thread....we have several weekends throughout the season (and I'm just talking about from April-October), out here where there's nothing going on (in all three divisions combined), that could be filled with other semi-pro racing events (regardless of sanctioning body). The seat time, would be good, and the optional points chasing series would be good for racers chasing more than just NHRA's Lucas Oil national/divisional championships...over and beyond the index adjustment and national event entry fee increase...next thing that'll happen is divisional races will cost $200 (or more)! It's taken far too long for this opportunity to come about, and if we don't seize the moment this opportunity brings, then the monopoly will continue and all of us will be weeded out of this our expression of the great sport of Drag Racing, and that will truly be a sad day here in the lower 48 states of America.....