If an advocate could be found - what would you say?

[HR9121]

Overall I'm not at all worried about NHRA doing away with sportsman racing, as I've said before they need us and now more than ever. What does concern me are some of the issues stated above already. One thing we should remember though, it's about sportsman racing not just Stock and SS, these other classes are just as important as they give us a much bigger voice and as some of you know I started racing in the Super classes. We must refrain about making any recommendations about just Stock or SS if we want to be taking seriously otherwise it becomes just a one-sided agenda.
First of all I would like to see quotas for all sportsman classes increased somewhat to more realistic versions of a few years ago. For Heavens sake 70 or 75 per class would look like Indy at this point. I feel they are keeping it to a bare necessity of what's the income they need from us at each event and it could easily be risen up some without creating too much of a schedule conflict. It's been done in the past and can be done again, I know some of it has to do with pit space at certain places but not all. Over the last couple years at Charlotte for instance there has been plenty of room left on the sportsman side that they have turned into Gold parking and there is plenty of places for those to be parked elsewhere.
My other concern would be cost vs payout, it is ridiculous but it will not stop me from doing this. I as well the vast majority don't do it for the money ofcourse but I got to admit a little bigger check wouldn't hurt my feelings a little and might even give me a little more leeway with my financial director at home.
I started following Stock and SS in the mid to late 80's and it's obviously not what it was then but I don't feel we or sportsman racing are on life support just yet. Actually over the last couple of seasons I've noticed a little bit of increase in car counts. There's still some new people trickling in across various classes and there's the appointment of Charles Myers by NHRA as sportsman relations director. Charles loves sportsman racing especially Stock and SS and has dreamed of working in this capacity since he was a kid. He will do good things for us I believe and may just be the voice we've been needing in Glendora for a while. Hope everyone has a great season and I look forward to seeing you all at the races.

[Paul Sarvas]

Originally Posted by MR DERBY CITY

Kinda reminds me of a man trying to build a wall, many think we don’t have a problem...I believe we do....carry on....

Pity there wasn't a wall when your ancestors came to this country...


pS

[mopacltd]

NO politics, Please!

[MR DERBY CITY]

Originally Posted by Paul Sarvas

Pity there wasn't a wall when your ancestors came to this country...


pS

Or yours.....pS

[B Parker]

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[B Parker]

Just some thoughts. It would be nice even with the quota's for a National Events anyone with a grade point of six or more could get in as long as they entered during the six grade point time line. Why not also open quota's for one class at each National event. The events that have stock class or super stock class open up to 128. Other events open quota's for the rest of sportsman racing one class at each event. I still think they miss the boat on marketing sportsman classes. Today social media is king in marketing. How much would it cost to have someone market our classes threw social media. As most that know me I started a Burger business 4 years ago in a location that was a Friendly's. They went out of business in this location. In this town of only 24,000 people there is already 2 Wendy's 2 Mc Donald's a Five Guys and a Burger King along with another burger place that has been open for 40 years. Everyone told me I was nuts and the last thing this town needed was another burger place. I marketed the heck out of this place threw every way possible. Last yr we did 1.3 million in sales and this year we project to be close to 1.5 .. My point is if I didn't work as hard as I did to market it I would have been out of business. Why would anyone object to having sportsman classes marketed threw every means possible to see where it could go. Ed I agree the local events like Divisional's are good and the NHRA people that we know and see at these events are great and do a really good job. I also agree with you that everything including sportsman racing and drag racing in general has an expiration date. But why would anyone object to try and do anything we can do to extend the end and make what we already have even greater. BP

[Mark Yacavone]

Originally Posted by Paul Sarvas

Pity there wasn't a wall when your ancestors came to this country...


pS

Another one crawls out from under his rock.
This is called CLASS Racer, not the Prius Times..Take a hike, holding hands with your buddy.

[Paul Sarvas]

Originally Posted by Mark Yacavone

Another one crawls out from under his rock.
This is called CLASS Racer, not the Prius Times..Take a hike, holding hands with your buddy.

How's things in Birtherstan, Mark?


pS

[Lenny5160]

Originally Posted by Bruce Noland

Tony,

Do you race in Stock or Super Stock?

I haven't yet, but you never know. Why do you ask?

I interpret your question and my reply of "no" to mean that whatever I have to say is worthless here.

Personally, I don't see all the hype about national events. My favorite events are divisionals. I run my local national event because it is close and another chance to run Super Comp. One year I ran two nationals because I had a gold card. That said, a national event poses unique challenges due to the schedule and I'd love to win one.

In my post, I made an honest effort to think of how other classes would be affected differently if sportsman racers were pushed out of national events. That's why I brought up class eliminations although that doesn't happen at all events. That is a unique element to nationals. If they were to contest class at an equivalent number of divisionals, what else is missing from your sportsman racing experience?

If I'm wrong, I'm happy to be wrong as long as I learn something as a result.

[Rob Petrie E395]

Originally Posted by Paul Sarvas

Pity there wasn't a wall when your ancestors came to this country...


pS

Sorry for continuing the side tracking of this thread. But If they would do it the right way. There would be no need for a wall. And it seems to me that's all anybody really wants. Some did like this guy.