Cutting Racer cost to attend NHRA meets

[Michael Beard]

Originally Posted by greg fulk

Not everyone want to run doubles! that's why I'm not running any IHRA div.3 races! @ 36 years old I'm to damn old to get up @ 8:am race till 1:am then get up @ 9:am to do it all over again! F-that you guys knock yourself out & have a good time...if it comes to that I'll just bracket race! I can get to K&D @ 5: pm get 3 or 4 time trials race win $200 & be home by midnight!

36 is old?

Double-headers are rarely sleep-depriving. Heck, when I was a kid, we went to the NHRA Div. 1 race at Numidia. Drive 45 min to track Friday. Make 2 qualifying runs. Drive 1-1/2 hrs to Beaver Springs, race. Drive 45 min home. Saturday, drive 45 to Numidia, make 2 qualifying runs, drive to Billy Nees's shop, swap converters, drive to Beaver Springs again and race. Sunday, got busted 1st round in a heads-up run at Numidia, drive to Beaver Springs and race... so even with the large car counts and alky cars, there was time for me to run 6 races in three days.

Last year, made my two qualifying runs at Piedmont, drove 2-1/2 hrs to Pageland, runnered-up there, drove home, back to Piedmont Sunday and won. Douglas double-header, I was in the semis on Saturday, 6:14PM, semis at MIR 4:55PM. Darlington, made two qualifying runs, went to Pageland and won, and was back to Darlington before it rained Saturday night. Jackson, SC went long on Saturday last year, but that was due to rain forcing a full-track scraping, so that one *was* 2:30am when I won, but heck, we didn't run 2nd round until 12:43am. Sunday's race, I won at 4:34pm. I think it was like 9pm on Saturday night at Jackson the year before, and that's with a big car count, plus all the 'show' stuff.

What time did y'all finish up on Saturday at MIR, Chip? About 6:30?