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09-16-2015, 11:24 PM
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Why?
Why would an organization have three races together that would canabilize each of them? I'm talking about the National event in Charlotte, the Sports Nationals in Columbus, and the divisional race in Shreveport. I realize the Shreveport race is a stretch but Columbus and Charlotte would draw a lot of the same cars.
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09-17-2015, 01:21 AM
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Re: Why?
Because they can.........................
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09-17-2015, 08:51 AM
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Re: Why?
Add to that the Goodguys race in Bowling Green. Another fan drain.
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09-17-2015, 09:09 AM
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Re: Why?
There are just too many races! IMHO, NHRA needs to cut it's number of National Events by at least 1/3 and preferably by 1/2. That would shift more importance to the Divisional level and make National Events into something special again.
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09-17-2015, 09:17 AM
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Re: Why?
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09-17-2015, 09:31 AM
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Re: Why?
x2 with Billy on big race reduction...just too many choices on places to race today.
Wasn't always this way...remember the old days? Maybe it's good (in a way)....BUT...... |
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09-20-2015, 05:39 PM
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Re: Why?
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09-20-2015, 08:23 PM
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Re: Why?
They do it to alleviate the congestion. ZMAX was packed. They still ended up running 2 rounds of Sportsman on Saturday night. Imagine if another 40-50 cars showed.
I had a Big Buck race promoter tell me once he would rather have 200 cas than 300 because tsmore manageable and he still makes a good profit. |
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09-17-2015, 04:39 PM
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Re: Why?
It real simple
52 weekends a year 26 national events a year counting sports Nats 50 plus points races a year This gives us total of 75 plus races. 50% of the country only has 26 or so weekends to race a year because of things like snow and cold weather. So 5-10 weekends a season are going to have 3 or more NHRA races on them.
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09-17-2015, 05:04 PM
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Re: Why?
The strong trying to kill the weak. The 2 dragstrips in AZ did it for years with one trying to get the other to go away. The 2 finally decided that it was hurting both and neither was going away so they started working together on Team races and not having them on the same weekend.
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