Gators

[Mark Yacavone]

Originally Posted by Bruce Noland

We are responsible for these quotas. I have been telling people that this was coming for years. But most racers were not interested in getting together and at least attempting to push back against these obvious attempts to push us to the margins. NHRA has gotten away with victimizing the racers while blaming them for their actions. There were 626 sportsman racers at the Gators in the early 2000's and barring bad weather they always finished the races. We gave them an inch when Tom Compton took away our 4th qualifying round and now they have taken the proverbial mile. What to do now?

Yup.. I predicted this would happen, over a year ago.
So ,where do we go from here? 15 gp's all from Div. 1 ? Easy enough, huh?
Likely... National events will become a millionaire's club, exclusively.
Unlikely .. Racer will again , read the charter and tell NHRA to go and pound sand ..Doubtful..Very doubtful.

[thomas r polk]

why would anyone run any NHRA RACES. They have reduced the fields and the money. Rampy has seen the light and gone back to bracket racing. I have raced for almost 60 years and have run super gas super comp, comp and super stock and I going run brackets

[Mark Yacavone]

Originally Posted by oldskool

Speakin of the Gators, there is a guy on the entry list named Bruce Noland, from Leesburg VA. He's listed with a '69 Firebird 400.

I found that he raced a 2nd gen Camaro Stocker. Not many '69 Birds in competition nowadays. So, does anybody here know anything about this car ?

https://www.nhraeventreg.com/ListEve...=GF1&cc=8&rn=3

Mr. V. Eight Pontiac, I believe it is a Trans Am, and Bruce is the person who got the data submitted a few years ago . If I'm wrong , I'm sure he'll tell me ;-)