Buybacks????

[Greg Hill]

I sent an e-mail to Scooter about the buyback or re-entry deal when it was announced. I don't think IHRA understands how offensive this is to most of the old school stock and super stock racers. It's bad enough to not have heads up runs in their tournament of champions race but buybacks are a no no. I truly think they would have come out better without the buyback deal in the form of more than enough race cars to make up the money. I raced a fair amount with IHRA this year, 5 points races and 1 National and can say I enjoyed it thoroughly, however I also think that IHRA doesn't have the tradition of stock and super stock being performance based classes that NHRA does. Because of that I feel they just view us as bracket racers that run in specific classes. One example of that was at Martin at the National event this year. They had a problem with the scales after a bad storm and instead of finding someone to come and fix them they decided to not have heads up runs in stock and super stock. I don' think this affected anyone but the decision was just an example of them not understanding that stock and super stock are a little different from just bracket racers.