Ok Div. 5, 6, & 7 Sportsman racers.....

[danny waters sr]

Gary , i hope it does grow in your area,and i hope it will be IHRA that grows it... Maybe once they get into that area and see the turn outs or the interest it will make it happen..I will not be working the Tuscon race this year ,but hopefully they will include all the sportsman class cars the next event and i can come out that way to work and meet you guys..... Was not trying to underscore at all......Hope to see you guys soon ....and good luck..

[GarysZ24]

Originally Posted by danny waters sr

Gary , i hope it does grow in your area,and i hope it will be IHRA that grows it... Maybe once they get into that area and see the turn outs or the interest it will make it happen..I will not be working the Tuscon race this year ,but hopefully they will include all the sportsman class cars the next event and i can come out that way to work and meet you guys..... Was not trying to underscore at all......Hope to see you guys soon ....and good luck..

Thanks Danny, for those thoughts....we need all the help we can get to try this, and so far 5 out of 6 sportsman racers I've spoken with are in favor of them giving us another venue for our racing dollars (that allow points chasing championships to chime in with it), so that's a good sign....not to mention the racers who've posted here about their interest in it as well. I also like the fact that IHRA's indexes haven't changed (like NHRA's did last year), and they haven't been raising the competition entry fees or registration costs like our Glendora based buds (?) have done in recent years either! The added benefit of the DP & CJ cars having to run in non-carbureted Stock Eliminator classes should be an added bonus to those who race in the classes currently being affected by the merging of the FI classes into the traditional classes.

It's my hope that if we can get IHRA out here in our area, that the contingency companies will latch onto this as well, with a growing interest in new postings for their events too...a win, win for us racers, the companies involved, and IHRA as well!!!

[Paul Plummer]

I was one of the three stockers who attended Rocky Mountain's IHRA event last year and I will be the first one of the 24 willing to commit - just need to know where to send my money. Spokane is my home track but with the .03 index hit my rulebook legal stocker only runs .02-.03 under the index in C/SA. With between 5 and 7 C/SA cars typically attending Spokane it is worth it to drive the 11 hours to run the National event in Salt Lake - they put on a great show last year and IHRA ended up paying for my trip. If you are not chasing division points, the fun factor is definitely with IHRA. I do know there are one or two guys in Salt Lake trying to put together crate motor stockers after last years event that might be willing to attend. Maybe the Salt Lake guys can get some of the locals to commit.

[GarysZ24]

Originally Posted by Paul Plummer

I was one of the three stockers who attended Rocky Mountain's IHRA event last year and I will be the first one of the 24 willing to commit - just need to know where to send my money. Spokane is my home track but with the .03 index hit my rulebook legal stocker only runs .02-.03 under the index in C/SA. With between 5 and 7 C/SA cars typically attending Spokane it is worth it to drive the 11 hours to run the National event in Salt Lake - they put on a great show last year and IHRA ended up paying for my trip. If you are not chasing division points, the fun factor is definitely with IHRA. I do know there are one or two guys in Salt Lake trying to put together crate motor stockers after last years event that might be willing to attend. Maybe the Salt Lake guys can get some of the locals to commit.

That's good to hear Paul, and I wish I could've been there too, because I sure wanted to! I'll add my name to that list for Salt Lake City as well...especially if my geographic location stays as close (if not becomes closer?) to there than it is now (that's a work in process). As I stated in the thread "Tucson", I'll offer to pay the entry fee for the RMR event (even if I don't actually get to participate in it), if the Tucson race doesn't work out for us Stock/Super Stock racers, thus the RMR folks will get the 24 committed racers needed to add our category back into their show (per Scooter Peaco, of IHRA)! Two down, 22 more to go...heck I know of a Ca. racer who expressed an interest in that race if they get it back, so if you and the others who were there last year can come back, then I think we'll only need around 17 more cars to make it happen...any other takers???

[Paul Plummer]

I just emailed Scooter and Mike Baker confirming my entry and have asked them where to send the money. If you are truly interested in having stock eliminator at this event, please email these guys at speaco@feldinc.com, mbaker@feldinc.com and confirm your participation.

Be willing to send in your entry fees in advance, this is the only way they will be able to know for sure that they will have the dollars to contest the 24 car minimum class.

If you even think yo have a car close to being class legal, I would also recommend talking to Mike Baker personally to see if it will pass tech.

In my opinion it is worth doing this to promote stock eliminator in the new division six and insure Rocky Mountain gets this class every year - they treat you like gold, you typically get to pit right next to the staging lanes and last year I got 9 passes between qualifying runs, gamblers race, etc. at a 2-day National Event plus a boatload of press - the value is incredible!

I will kick in an extra $200 to be awarded based on a random drawing at the race - I know it is not a lot but it will at least pay for 1 of the 24 car's entry fee.

I look forward to seeing you there!

[GarysZ24]

Thanks Paul,

I just had a good chat with Ron Craft of Rocky Mountain Raceway, and he too is hoping (as I am), that Southwestern International Raceway's racers will embrace the IHRA into their fold....the oil down penalty that Glendora is placing upon us sportsman racers is the latest reason to hope for this addition, to them! If they don't then I'll be working towards joining you there Paul, and I have a couple of friends who'll likely go there too...

[GarysZ24]

Two more key reasons to give IHRA a try out west in our lower 48's:

1. Membership in IHRA, plus your competition number is only $70 vs the $119 for NHRA!

2. No physical is required for those of you stocker racers who had to get them, with NHRA.

Sounds great to me!!! Now how about the rest of you???

If you have any other membership questions, Donna Harper is a phone call away, and waiting to hear from you @ (419) 660-4219.

[Paul Plummer]

I am not seeing a lot of posts regarding interest in contesting stock eliminator at the Salt Lake IHRA Nitrojam event - I think the last count was about 7 people. Are there any Salt Lake locals besides superstock racer Tom Albritton that come to this forum? We need to hear from you or your buddies on this issue.

Put quite simply, if the local racers in a city of $1M+ people can't find at least 12 of the 24 cars locally to compete, there should be no complaining by anyone on why IHRA is not automatically willing to cough up $2K-$3K in prize money plus contingency for three cars to show up only one of which was local (he actually won the event).

I keep hearing the cry baby stories about NHRA has this event scheduled and that event scheduled at the same time - boo hoo! IHRA has many different stock classes in which you can compete. Let me list these for you -- STOCK - just like NHRA except you get 10.5" and roller rockers, STOCK FUEL INJECTION, STOCK TRUCKS, STOCK GT, PURE STOCK and CRATE MOTOR STOCK.

So here is some outside the box thinking - go to a local car show, talk to a few wheel polisher types and ask them to take there cars to the track to enter the PURE STOCK class. We then approach IHRA about letting these guys run, even if they don't quite fit the rules to the letter. There has to be at 5 or 10 people with restored vintage iron in Salt Lake. We do the same for some of the other classes - I keep stressing the crate motor class because a lot of no box cars are pretty close.

The 24 who show up that are 100% legal to run the class, get to make the decision on whether to allow the almost legal guys to run. I would venture a guess that there won't be many heads-up matches anyway at which point were talking about foot brake bracket racing.

Why is this different than the no-box class?

Once these guys get a chance to see what stock eliminator is all about and learn from some of the seasoned vets, you will start getting converts. One of the coolest things about stock is the ability to innovate - it is like a drug. Next to the money, most people shy away from class racing because it is very complicated to understand for new people who would like to try the sport.

Let's do something new and different, get off the couch and help us get this class to salt lake in 2011.

I will volunteer to talk to IHRA about a fresh idea.

[X-TECH MAN]

Lots of luck and I mean that. I tried for years in an area that was over run with class legal cars without any luck.

[Paul Plummer]

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