Another National Event price increase

[Charley Downing]

23 national events
300 min sportsman cars per national event
$20x300 entry's
=$6000 per race
$6000x23 events= $138,000 (with pros paying $0)


Did I miss something? I think the extra $10 they charged us at the beginning of the 2016 season more then covers the insurance increase.

What was the $10 increase at the start of the season for?

[Julie Jordan]

Originally Posted by Charley Downing

23 national events
300 min sportsman cars per national event
$20x300 entry's
=$6000 per race
$6000x23 events= $138,000 (with pros paying $0)


Did I miss something? I think the extra $10 they charged us at the beginning of the 2016 season more then covers the insurance increase.

What was the $10 increase at the start of the season for?

The Pros do pay. The pay pit space fees, for one. Ask a Pro team about all the charges. Just because they aren't paying an "entry fee" doesn't mean they're not being charged to race.

[Ed Fernandez]

Reality:
You'll get very few S/SS racers to make a steady diet of big buck races because to really be competitive you need as much electronics as there is in the space shuttle. Maybe the Super categories racers could make the move easier.
Just a thought.

[MR DERBY CITY]

I just wonder if this was a knee jerk reaction by NHRA because a Super Class racers wife just creamed a vintage 69 Camaro Superstocker at the Vegas fall race last year ? She was driving a golf cart when the ACCIDENT occurred....Seriously, how many pit vehicle accidents are there ??

[Michael Beard]

Originally Posted by Ed Fernandez

Reality:
You'll get very few S/SS racers to make a steady diet of big buck races because to really be competitive you need as much electronics as there is in the space shuttle.

LOL! Really? There are TONS of Footbrake and No-Box big money races, all over the place, so electronics is no excuse. They just don't *want* to, that's all. Shoot, it's tough to get many S/SS racers to even run S/SS races if they're not an NHRA Nat'l or Div'l event.

Every once in a while, I'll Footbrake in the Box class, too, and in my experience, none of the electronics makes them much tougher (if at all). The thing that makes the Box class tough is the speed, consistency, and quality of the cars in competition.

[Pinballer]

We all like racing a lot or we wouldn't even be on here, but I think the main reason a S/SS guy wouldn't want to attend foot brake and bracket races very often--no matter how good the payout is-- is that he doesn't want to put extra wear and tear on the expensive, specific, and likely very hard-to-find parts and pieces that allow him to be competitive in S/SS in the first place. It would almost require a second dedicated car to be used for bracket racing only. Otherwise, you'd be a real busy guy doing constant maintenance.
If you had a zipper on the Stocker engine bay and could slide a mildly modified SBC and plain jane Turbo 350 in and out of your easy-to-work-on '68 Camaro in the span of a couple hours every Tuesday night when you wanted to go run a big-money bracket race for the weekend, yeah, they'd be more apt to do it. But they don't.