Div. 7 racers, R.M.R. has a BIG RACE 4 US!

[GarysZ24]

I want to first of all thank all of you who showed up for this race, and I hope you had as good of a time as I did...I think Les, Jesse and the semifinalist may have had the best time of all of us, but I feel a good time was had by all!

As I stated in the kudos to Les thread, thanks to all of you who showed up for this race, next year will be a regular Nitro Jam, with Stock and Super Stock racing theirselves, contingency postings, and the shot at the World Championship going to the winners!!!!

Skooter Peaco (VP Racing Operations at IHRA), Ron Craft (Drag Strip Manager @ Rocky Mountain Raceway), plus all of us there were greatly excited to hear this for next year because of our involvement next year...thus those of you who weren't able to attend, will hopefully be able to do so next year, and those of you who for whatever reason refused to attend (like loyalty to the enhanced HRA, only), will have more incentive to give the sportsman friendly IHRA a go next year!

Hopefully we can get Lane "The Hawk" Weber, Randy Hyman,, Fred Rector (and please bring some of your awesome food with you ok Fred??? ), plus my Az neighbors (Angelo, Kenny, Chris, Wes, etc.) to join in and get this field in excess of 30 cars (for Stock only)!!! Oh, to you my Super Stock Neighbors, don't think I'm leaving you guys out, with Carroll Warling, Verle Stevens, Jeff Johnson, from Colorado, Mean Gene from Cornhuskerville with your buds, and Kip Martin from here in my Az. neck of the woods. Oh, and I'm not leaving you California & Nevada guys/gals out either, so how about it Steve and Don Wann, Chad and Mike Loge, Jon Irving, Jimmy DeFrank, Vic Hobbs, and some of you D6 racers (especially those who were at this race last year)?

This race is going to get "BIG", and it's because of us for making this happen!

Skooter wants it to happen, Ron does too, so how about it folks, are we in???

Those of us who may not have a surplus of funds for making our cars go quicker than -.3 under the index, should be happy for these new opportunities...especially since I now realize that with our former altitude correction factors being changed to emulate the Super classes, my car is no longer competitive at an NHRA altitude track...which makes me glad that two of the better known altitude tracks over the last 25yrs (RMR, & SIR out west), are now IHRA tracks, we now have altitude tracks that we can still be competitive at! You can be sure that I'M IN!!!!

[Wes King]

Gary, It was my pleasure to be a part of this killer race that you worked so hard for. Us guys (The Loud bunch Glenn and Earl Snow (Real) along with Adam Emmer and friend Jason,) had a blast. Man we are in for the next one, keep it going buddy. Thanks again Wes King

[GarysZ24]

Originally Posted by Wes King

Gary, It was my pleasure to be a part of this killer race that you worked so hard for. Us guys (The Loud bunch Glenn and Earl Snow (Real) along with Adam Emmer and friend Jason,) had a blast. Man we are in for the next one, keep it going buddy. Thanks again Wes King

No I thank you Wes, Glenn, Earl (Real), Adam, and Jason for bringing your cars out here to this.

I have to correct myself on one thing though, Only since NHRA finally (after 13yrs), gave me a horsepower factor away from those Turbo Mopars (except for last year at Indy...glad I wasn't there, cos there's no way I could've run with that awesomely quick PT Cruiser), thus allowing me to now be only about .25 quicker at 'Vegas (under the best conditions), than my new index of 15.99...my former (pre enhanced) index was 16.30 there, so gone are the days of my being .5 under at any altitude indexes (I'll be looking forward to seeing what Bandimere's index would be for DF/S), and compare it to what Randy Hyman's cars index was in '06, since my index was a 16.66 up there, but I was in the quicker CF/S index at that time (also pre-enhanced)! Bottom line though, is now I'm within nearly .2 tenths of no longer being competitive at NHRA altitude tracks, while I'd be better off at sea level tracks. Why does NHRA not seem to care that while they're claiming to be for us class racers, their actions (such as all of the enhancements), have done little to convince me (amongst others), that is true?

I can also report that Tucson hasn't been forgotten with regards to us stock/super stock racers, and plans are in the works for next years SIR Nitro Jam Race to definitely give us (at least) an equal race to what Salt Lake City gave us this year...STAY TUNED!!!