“Live from” the NHRA D2 Nat open series at Piedmont

[Duane Eiskant II]

Ok so I did some digging. Since this is a 1/8th mile series let’s look at nitro joes 2017 ihra 1/8th mile stats shall we? So we had 4 (4) GT cars that raced in all of ihra in the 1/8 th mile in 2017 ( 2 of which we’re traditial stockers that were likely trying to avoid heads up runs, so that makes it 2!) now pure stockers. 9. 9 pure stockers ran in the 1/8th mile in ihra during 2017. Leave GT cars out of your arguments because in all actuality IF ihra had continued to race class cars this 2018 was going to be the last year for gt cars over there as they were getting the axe. Why? Because there was only 3 maybe 4 true gt cars in existence. Now are you ready for this? 2019 was going to be the last year for pure stockers. I still had a lot of friends that were officials in ihra and I talked to them and we had several long talks about it when they were deciding to do away with those classes. I told them it didn’t matter to me because I could run super stock by changing the letters on the windows. I do feel sorry for the guys like Bobby Ray and Gary who’s cars were 100% legal but the officials knew there were cars that weren’t legal but with the double race format there was never enough time to send them through tear down. So to hurt anyone’s feelings but what’s done is done and it took one division director to go out on a limb for the ss production and cm cars. I’m afraid with the lack of support in basically ihra country unless something happens at the remaining races the future don’t look to good. Bottom line is if you really want to class race you’ll fix your car to run within the rules of the sanctioning body that’s trying to give you an outlet to race. If not then Well big tires in the back little tires in the front and pick between top et or foot brake.