The Importance of Class Runoffs

Larry Hill · 08-17-2022, 07:02 AM

Maybe we could help the announcer talk about our stockers. At National events and Points races if we racers tried to pair up same classes during the qualifying sessions it will be a comparison of the 350 Chevy, the 340 Mopar, and the Ford 351C in E/SA.
Think how much time that will save you looking up your competition on live timing. One of your competitors will be on the same time slip.

1matcoman · 08-17-2022, 10:33 AM

There you go, Larry, making sense again.

e vassar · 08-17-2022, 10:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Larry Hill

Maybe we could help the announcer talk about our stockers. At National events and Points races if we racers tried to pair up same classes during the qualifying sessions it will be a comparison of the 350 Chevy, the 340 Mopar, and the Ford 351C in E/SA.
Think how much time that will save you looking up your competition on live timing. One of your competitors will be on the same time slip.

Unlikely cause the announcers are usually encouraging the spectators to go to the pits to watch the nitro classes do their thrash and get autographs. The NHRA is selling their product to the general motorsport fan..They already have our money! LOL

Bryan Phillips · 08-18-2022, 02:14 AM

Bobby-thanks for all that you are doing for class racing. I truly enjoy your interviews-keep them coming. For me, truly exciting class racing comes from the level of competition (and high car counts of class cars) at an event. Obviously, nothing rivals class at Indy. There are a good amount of die hard class racing fans spectating (many of them competitors) but the stands are certainly not jam-packed. I will say that I used to thoroughly enjoy "Hard Core Thursdays" at Nationals- can remember those at Gainesville, Vegas and maybe Charlotte. These were typically Sportsman only run days and not a lot of fans. But always great class racing when the quotas were larger. I have yet to compete at class at a Divisional but look forward to it. My thoughts are that as long as the quotas remain what they are (Indy being the exception) that strong class fields at Nationals will be hard to come by. Nothing more exciting than a 3 or 4 round class "get-down". Good luck with efforts to enhance exposure to class racing. I'm thinking that most of us will support this.

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08-17-2022, 10:33 AM	#2
1matcoman Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Houston, Texas Posts: 342 Likes: 836 Liked 355 Times in 136 Posts	Re: The Importance of Class Runoffs There you go, Larry, making sense again.

08-18-2022, 02:14 AM	#4
Bryan Phillips Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 145 Likes: 3 Liked 46 Times in 20 Posts	Re: The Importance of Class Runoffs Bobby-thanks for all that you are doing for class racing. I truly enjoy your interviews-keep them coming. For me, truly exciting class racing comes from the level of competition (and high car counts of class cars) at an event. Obviously, nothing rivals class at Indy. There are a good amount of die hard class racing fans spectating (many of them competitors) but the stands are certainly not jam-packed. I will say that I used to thoroughly enjoy "Hard Core Thursdays" at Nationals- can remember those at Gainesville, Vegas and maybe Charlotte. These were typically Sportsman only run days and not a lot of fans. But always great class racing when the quotas were larger. I have yet to compete at class at a Divisional but look forward to it. My thoughts are that as long as the quotas remain what they are (Indy being the exception) that strong class fields at Nationals will be hard to come by. Nothing more exciting than a 3 or 4 round class "get-down". Good luck with efforts to enhance exposure to class racing. I'm thinking that most of us will support this.

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