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View Poll Results: which cmbo format do you prefer?
two day combo, $5K Saturday, $10K Sunday 30 47.62%
two day combo, two $5K races Saturday, one $5K Sunday 20 31.75%
three day combo, $5K races Friday, Saturday, and Sunday 7 11.11%
one day combo, $10K Saturday 6 9.52%
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Old 06-27-2011, 02:13 PM   #21
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I would be in, anywhere within 6 hours from southern Indiana.
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Old 06-27-2011, 02:57 PM   #22
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I drove 600 miles one way to attend the BG National Open and Nitroplate 5K and this is about my limit. I'm with Michael, 1/8, 1/4, 1000; it's all good.
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Old 06-27-2011, 02:57 PM   #23
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As you know I am in favor of the combo races like this.

What I think could add a real cool element as well as a drawing card for spectators
would be a heads up class run-off with a cash payout on the spot!!!
NO INSTANT FACTOR !!
JUST RUN YOUR CAR WIDE OPEN!!!! (With in the rules of course)

(I think it would be a fun thing to sponsor,for myself as well as others!)

I think if WE as a group: (S/SS racers), stick together we will gain support
and our own following of fans with the combo races.

At Brainerd we have had good car count for a 1 day (Sat.) event.

(If we could have a 2 day it would be better)
But for now we are doing OK with it.
I think next year we may try to have a 2 day deal.

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In some cases, such as a 2 or 3 day event, other races/classes are necessary. For the one day races, they are usually held in conjunction with some sort of regular program for the track.

It would be nice to have some sort of heads up off the index first one to the finish line wins racing as well, but that is hard to do, given those same cars will be in the combo, where the money is.

More likely is some sort of companion race, such as a S/G race, or possibly T/D or T/S. And we need to welcome such a companion race, it helps the track fill the stands and turn a profit, which they must do in order to remain in business.
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Old 06-27-2011, 04:08 PM   #24
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I would not support a combo that was not open to ALL legal xHRA cars.
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Old 06-27-2011, 04:42 PM   #25
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I would not support a combo that was not open to ALL legal xHRA cars.
I guess really and truly that is the way i feel also. Sorry ..Still wish you luck and success.




All our combo races around here allow both HRA's and they all seem to like it.
Just wish we could have scales and fuel check for heads up around here .Maybe if it grows enough we can.
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Old 06-27-2011, 06:23 PM   #26
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Mike and Danny, it's too bad you feel that way. The Bowling Green combo series is run that way, and consistently draws 50 cars or more for a $50 entry fee and a guaranteed purse. They hold 5 or more races a year with excellent attendance.

Bowling Green does have scales and heads up racing. I'd say for the bigger money races we might even be able to get fuel checks and more exhaustive tech.

I myself am not anti IHRA, and I'm not terribly hung up on excluding IHRA classes. However, several regular attendees did complain that they felt some racers were using soft factors and soft indexes from IHRA to avoid possible heads up races and gain qualifying advantages. Given that Bowling Green is an NHRA track, the decision was made, with the support of the vast majority of racers, to run NHRA classes only. There had only been a couple of cars there that did not fit an NHRA class to begin with.
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Old 06-27-2011, 07:06 PM   #27
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I am not anti either and you make a good point if you are in NHRA country with close sanctioned tracks.
Likewise i am in the hot bed of IHRA sanction tracks and may be why i am comfortable as you are in your area.
Not really softer indexes til NHRA took away their 3 tenths......
Who knows i may go to a race out your way one of these days....Looks like a 8 hour and more drive for me....
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Old 06-27-2011, 07:21 PM   #28
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Alan, Andrew and I would come to Jackson for a two or three race deal but it's just too far for a regular combo. From my shop in Jeffersonville it's probably 340-350 miles. We would also like Memphis for a bigger money deal.
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Old 06-27-2011, 08:25 PM   #29
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I would drive at least eight hours for that kind of payout.....Maybe farther. I am in Ark, so unless its way up north it shouldnt be too bad for me. If its anywhere in the midwest or south I will go.
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Old 06-27-2011, 08:39 PM   #30
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Alan with fuel prices what they are and working around our jobs a 2 day race with a maximun of 300 miles would make sense, now about the heads up and IHRA class cars, why don't we forget about heads up runs and let everyone run off their own dial in. The only stipulation would be that the cars are stock or super stock in their own sanctioning bodies. My $.02.
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