Both or neither this week in Phoenix!!!

ss wannabee · 02-28-2013, 03:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Doug Blackley

I normally don't comment on these kinds of posts but this particular post has boothered me since I read it earlier today. This has to be the most insensitive and ignorant posts I have read on this forum in some time. He is not alone in this current economy that have either had to cut back or sadly park their race cars. You don't know everyones circumstance and to say it in that way is down right rude. Perhaps he or his wife has been one of the millions of laid off workers out there and let me tell you, it's absolutely an employers market out there and the wage offers reflect it. Many of us have seen household incomes shrink to less than half of what they were just four years ago while working more days and longer hours just to make less.

Agree with you 100% Doug...and also want to say that some of those prices...crew passes and spectator...are a tad bit too high...given the state of the economy..

Mile High · 02-28-2013, 12:27 PM

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Originally Posted by ss wannabee

Agree with you 100% Doug...and also want to say that some of those prices...crew passes and spectator...are a tad bit too high...given the state of the economy..

Last year I bought tickets for Saturday at the Nationals at Firebird online then I went back on Thursday of the first divisional. I told friends I'd come back to see them before I knew how much it was. A few weeks later I got an online survey from Firebird asking what I thought about the races and stuff. I let them know that I thought the spectator fee along with the concessions were way over priced. Crew shouldn't get gouged either. Do you wonder why there isn't anyone in the stands to watch you? If I can't race I'd like to go watch but that's getting too expensive.

Jeff

Casey Miles · 02-28-2013, 02:27 PM

Down here in south Florida, we have a different problems with the N & IHRA. Granted, we have the double up races for IHRA, I went to the IHRA points race at PBIR and there wasn't a sufficent car count for them to run their program. On the other hand, NHRA, the closest track to a points race is 300 miles away. When you have to work on Friday (because of the economy, there is no one to back fill your job) and you want to go to the points race for NHRA, you might get a one time run in before eliminations. So you travel through the night and possibly travel home the following night because of they way they run their races. So here is the question you have to ask yourself, do you chance spending all that time and money going to the sanctioning bodies races or do you just go bracket racing locally?
NHRA and IHRA should see the writing on the wall that the economy is eating away at our wanting to participate. Modify the entry fees, a 15 to 25% cut across the board. Also, the scheduled run times should accomodate the racers who have to enter on Saturday.
Make sure that if a racer is showing up Saturday, that the catigories they race in get 2 time runs before eliminations. Become user friendly!
I not whinning, I want to race the N and IHRA points races. Time is the main concern for me, but for some people it is the entry fees.
I have 5 IHRA sanctioned race tracks within 100 miles, so I do have choices on where to go to race.

Casey Miles
248H "F" NHRA Stock!

02-28-2013, 02:27 PM	#3
Casey Miles Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 703 Likes: 127 Liked 488 Times in 90 Posts	Re: Both or neither this week in Phoenix!!! Down here in south Florida, we have a different problems with the N & IHRA. Granted, we have the double up races for IHRA, I went to the IHRA points race at PBIR and there wasn't a sufficent car count for them to run their program. On the other hand, NHRA, the closest track to a points race is 300 miles away. When you have to work on Friday (because of the economy, there is no one to back fill your job) and you want to go to the points race for NHRA, you might get a one time run in before eliminations. So you travel through the night and possibly travel home the following night because of they way they run their races. So here is the question you have to ask yourself, do you chance spending all that time and money going to the sanctioning bodies races or do you just go bracket racing locally? NHRA and IHRA should see the writing on the wall that the economy is eating away at our wanting to participate. Modify the entry fees, a 15 to 25% cut across the board. Also, the scheduled run times should accomodate the racers who have to enter on Saturday. Make sure that if a racer is showing up Saturday, that the catigories they race in get 2 time runs before eliminations. Become user friendly! I not whinning, I want to race the N and IHRA points races. Time is the main concern for me, but for some people it is the entry fees. I have 5 IHRA sanctioned race tracks within 100 miles, so I do have choices on where to go to race. Casey Miles 248H "F" NHRA Stock!