How about severely limiting "Super" class entries?

Greenlight · 01-18-2020, 09:32 PM

It took 8 grade points (GP) to get in Gainesville in Stock, yet Top Sportsman is not full with 3 GP at Phoenix (10 spots still open). That's certainly not fair to the NHRA Stock racer who works hard and spends lots of $$ to attend a bunch of races.

I suggest that at the next level of GP entry date (i.e. going from 6 GP to 5 GP), the NHRA looks at the "unfilled" categories and distributes "open" spots to the other "filled" classes. Then, the following year the class that didn't "fill" it's spots early, have fewer spots (quota) the next year and the class that did "fill" it's spots early get a higher quota the next year.

The process should lend itself to all classes being full with the same number of GP requirements. The total number of vehicles remains the same.

The negative of this COULD be that you only have 7 Top Sportsman cars and 4 Comp. Elim. cars. Bare minimums could be set at 16.

01-18-2020, 09:32 PM	#11
Greenlight Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 215 Likes: 16 Liked 79 Times in 22 Posts	Re: How about severely limiting "Super" class entries? It took 8 grade points (GP) to get in Gainesville in Stock, yet Top Sportsman is not full with 3 GP at Phoenix (10 spots still open). That's certainly not fair to the NHRA Stock racer who works hard and spends lots of $$ to attend a bunch of races. I suggest that at the next level of GP entry date (i.e. going from 6 GP to 5 GP), the NHRA looks at the "unfilled" categories and distributes "open" spots to the other "filled" classes. Then, the following year the class that didn't "fill" it's spots early, have fewer spots (quota) the next year and the class that did "fill" it's spots early get a higher quota the next year. The process should lend itself to all classes being full with the same number of GP requirements. The total number of vehicles remains the same. The negative of this COULD be that you only have 7 Top Sportsman cars and 4 Comp. Elim. cars. Bare minimums could be set at 16. Last edited by Greenlight; 01-19-2020 at 11:12 AM. Reason: Edit 7 to 8 GP for Gainesville. Thanks Larry for catching this.