How Cool is this, Reminds me of the old Bowling Green Sportsnationals,

[Chad Rhodes]

Originally Posted by Emmett Mikolajczyk

Hey---Glad to see IHRA back in San Antonio--- Me and my daughter Jimmie will be making as many IHRA events as we can --the best thing is we wont have to worry about running any miss classified heads up races--IHRA seems to have a better selection of classes and its nice not driving 500 miles to bring a knife to a gun fight just to spend the weekend raceing--see you at the races--Emmett

Emmett, I think we may try to make it out there as well. Dad hasn't been to San Antonio in ages, and it would be a lot of fun.

[Charlie Yannetti]

So let me get this straight.. VMP is hosting both NHRA and IHRA races this year??.. cause I just heard that NHRA Div 1 has a race scheduled there for the last week in April..

[Myron Piatek]

Originally Posted by Charlie Yannetti

So let me get this straight.. VMP is hosting both NHRA and IHRA races this year??.. cause I just heard that NHRA Div 1 has a race scheduled there for the last week in April..

Not according to the NHRA schedule!

http://sportsman.nhra.com/2011/sp_schedule.asp

http://www.nhra.com/schedules/2011fts.aspx

Rumors suck. Just gotta confirm it with a reliable source.

[Michael Beard]

Originally Posted by fredjohnston

In 2010, unless the IHRA race was in your backyard, the prize money wasn't worth pulling out of the driveway.

Wow. Good thing I didn't get *that* memo! 2010 was a life-changing career year for me.

[Jim Woods]

LOL, come on Myron, We all may be racing spaceships by then, sorry about the typo.

[Michael Kilduff]

Originally Posted by fredjohnston

Can't figure out what is so great about this. NHRA has these type of races going on for several years now. They are called JEGS Sportsnationals. They are a big success and they pay great money to win.

The only way this will work for IHRA is if they pay a decent (alot) amount of money to win, in cash and not rely on the 6-8 contingency sponsors they will probably have in 2011. In 2010, unless the IHRA race was in your backyard, the prize money wasn't worth pulling out of the driveway.

It would be great if Summit Racing stepped in to make these IHRA races a 'Summit Sportsnationals'. Summit already sponsors the weekly bracket series at IHRA tracks, would make sense to sponsor the Sportsnationals on the 'I' side and help make them a big success.

I will add on that I order parts from Jegs and Summit, but if Summit steps up for these races I will buy from them exclusively, at least within reason.

[Myron Piatek]

Originally Posted by Michael Kilduff

It would be great if Summit Racing stepped in to make these IHRA races a 'Summit Sportsnationals'. Summit already sponsors the weekly bracket series at IHRA tracks, would make sense to sponsor the Sportsnationals on the 'I' side and help make them a big success.

I will add on that I order parts from Jegs and Summit, but if Summit steps up for these races I will buy from them exclusively, at least within reason.

Summit sponsors the whole divisional series - IHRA Summit Pro-Am Tour and the Summit All-Stars race! They have been a great partner with IHRA.

I got a feeling that the company (or two) that steps up will make it all worthwhile.


"Good luck to all in 20011"

Jim, I don't think your well wishes will do me or anyone else any good by then!