NHRA Stikes Again................

[Bob Mulry]

Originally Posted by Tom P

Not short of pit space but probably time limitations. Super Comp can take three hours to run one session with no oil or crashes. Seems like they get thousands of them.
By contrast eighty SuperStockers takes just a few minutes to run, i'd swap an extra hundred SS cars for a hundred less SC ones.

Just to give you some insight....................

65 cars or 128 cars take the same amount of rounds and that would be 7....

We would still have the exact same amount of filler rounds for the PRO show on Sunday.......

If ALL of the Sportsman Category Classes had been capped at 128 it would still take the same amount of rounds.......

The only difference, and I mean only, is that the first round of the eliminator would be run by 128 cars and not 75.....

How long does it take to run 20 pairs of Sportsman during the qualifying??????????

Maybe Class runs would take a little longer because of those pesky HEADS-UP runs??????????????

Bob

PS:
Remember when a Divisional Race included Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock and 7 or 8 qualifying hits and that got done in 2 days......

What happened was .90 classes with 400 entries, bracket motorcycles, snowmobiles & golf carts at the Divisional Races.....

[Nick Heath]

Originally Posted by Bob Mulry

What happened was .90 classes with 400 entries, bracket motorcycles, snowmobiles & golf carts at the Divisional Races.....

Don't forget the Jr. Dragsters, Top Dragster, Top Sportsman, numerous SC/SG/SST shootouts, and various other exhibition classes. It all adds up! How about the 10.00, 11.00, 12.00, 13.00 index cars from a couple of years ago...are those still around?

[barnca2010]

So for what ever reason some people really seem to despise bracket racing. But I tell you what . After looking at the payouts that were available to the D1 folks. Between gamblers racing and contingency.. If I ever bought or built a car.. I would have to say money would be better spent on bracket racing.. And for all the Wally chasers.. Those are available to.

I don't think people despise bracket racing, we just like doing what we do. Heads up racing occasionally. Qualifying on a ladder, racing different places all over the country. The hot rods that are built for S/SS , compared to a bracket style car. The ever changing technology. Ect... Money is best spent on what you like to do.

Bracket racing has its challenges too. Go to a 10k footbrake race with a normal car and see what your chances are if your a part time hobby racer compared to the mercenaries that go to those races. Always killer on the tree, the cars run within.001 almost all the time. Some of those cars can cost up to 70 to 100K It's a very high level of competition. Go to a normal bracket day, and the payouts can absolutely suck unless your racing at Numidia where it's much better than anywhere else.

There is no Bracket Wally that compares to a National event one unless you win the bracket finals or the last race at Pamona.

This limiting cars at a national event absolutely sucks, NHRA is doing their best to send us away. I hope they change their minds and open these races up again one of these days.
The situation sucks, just hoping it gets better one of these days

QUOTE=barnca2010;515941]So for what ever reason some people really seem to despise bracket racing. But I tell you what . After looking at the payouts that were available to the D1 folks. Between gamblers racing and contingency.. If I ever bought or built a car.. I would have to say money would be better spent on bracket racing.. And for all the Wally chasers.. Those are available to.[/QUOTE]