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Why can't they find open weekends?
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I'm guessing the meager turnout last year guided their thoughts, but I too am not sure why they didn't schedule around those div's race dates for the RMR event this year (?), but I hope that if the track gets the 24ct + of interested class & .90 racers, that if they can't change anything this year, they'll be flexible enough to schedule around those divisions races next year...again as per Scooter Peaco of IHRA (imagine a joe blow racer like me being able to chat on the phone with a VP of a motorsports sanctioning body!!!).
As per S.I.R., to me it's no coincedence that the 'Vegas (replacement) divisional was scheduled on the same wknd as the Nitro Jam race....once again though, that will be adjusted next year as well if racer interest is high enough. I'm glad you're interested Ed, because that's what we need out here (from racers in your area), so those of us nearer the west coast can possibly enjoy what you central and eastern racers have enjoyed for years....an option for our racing dollars!!! ![]()
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Look at Nitro Joe's 2011 racing schedule.. There are 125 race dates on it now. Not making excuses ,but that is a lot of races to try to schedule around..........Don't worry ,be happy ......lol
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Danny, that many in that part of the country?
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Nah, just was looking at all the races in general. 125 races in one year is a lot no matter where they are.....It is hard to schedule no matter what you do. Here at home on the same weekend as West Palm IHRA race we have a racers re-union(that i go to every year) with lots of legends in attendence such as Bobby Warren ,Garley Daniels ,Harold Denton , Ed Mcglawhorn ,Troy Dennis, Roy Hill , and the list goes on and on. The weekend before that we also have a bracket /class racer (Steve Taylor) that will be inducted in the North Carolina Drag Racing Hall of Fame along with Sam Carroll, Charles Carpenter, Ronnie Hood , . Then we have a 5 grander Winter series race at my home track (just 10 minutes from home ). I don't know how to get to do all of these things ,just lucky we got all this stuff going on and to be able to have choices......Some areas are not so lucky as this area in general..........Go look under the EVENTS section and you can see what i will be missing $#@$#@$@%@$@.....
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Gary, when we have them stacked on top of each other around here, there are open weekends around them. Guess I'm not smart enough to understand it.
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Ed, since you live in Tulsa, Ok., you have several options that are within a 500-600 mile towing range (one-way and with both sanctioning bodies), of your home base. Unless I moved up to either Boise, Id. or Salt Lake City, Ut. (if not to a mid-western state similar to yours), I don't have that flexibility of 2+ different divisions that I could race in (nor would I have the two different sanctioning bodies I could enjoy (unless Rocky Mountain Raceway either gives us sportsman racers a second chance, and/or S.I.R. becomes an IHRA sanctioned track). Spokane, Wa. is far enough from Denver, Co., that no D6 cars will show for the D5 race (or vice/versa). However, D6 & D7 messed up last year by hosting their Spokane, Wa. & Fallon, Nv. divisionals the same weekend, and because of it they both had meager car counts...they learned their lessons since it won't be like that this year! Unfortunately we don't have the luxury of such stacking of events out here in the western three div's. (especially without the IHRA option), so we have no concept of what you central/eastern racers get to choose from (hopefully the possible addition of Tucson to the IHRA family will start a process that will give us that, and maybe an IHRA division of our own to boot that would start by housing RMR, & SIR within it?). I'm sorry, that you have to choose what championship you want to chase the most, and plan your races accordingly, but it must be nice to have those options....
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