Gators

[Chip THELEGEND Johnson]

Casey
I'm in NC and other than Rockingham and Galot the closest one to me is 300 miles. Also the 1/8th mile opens are open to NHRA cars too. All you have to do is enter to get grade point. You dont have to stay.

[oldskool]

Originally Posted by Bruce Noland

This one will be a bit of an ugly duckling for the first year, until this old Chevrolet guy figures out a Pontiac. I have had a lot of good help so far so we'll have to wait and see how it runs before locking it up in a bodyshop for months on end.

Great to here about the car !

Sorry to hear about the long wait for paint. I thought it was about ready to race.

Anyhow, lookin forward to it's debut. Good luck with it !

There are a some good Pontiac guys in div 1, that will probably help, if you ask. There have always been VERY few Pontiac guys in my area. So, we've always been a pretty close knit group, helping each other.

[rboyle]

Originally Posted by Casey Miles

Hey James, not as easy as you think to just go to more races in D2, for me, Orlando is 200 miles and it's the closest. Up where you are it's just the tolls that kill you not the distances. I think the farthest is Epping or Virginia, maybe 400 miles. Galot, which should be in D1 is a mere 900 miles which takes a days drive all by itself. Like I said in an earlier post, over 8k miles to get 6 grade points. It's not about going, it's getting there. I'm on the same page as Mike about division preference.
Casey Miles
248H

Atco is about 150 miles from me but it's the tolls and traffic that beat us up. 150 miles can take 3 hours without traffic and 5-6 hours with NY traffic which is constant any time of day
Add in that 4 of the D1 opens are in Canada and that hurts us too. I don't even want to hassle with border crossing with race fuel.
So we need out of division races to get to 8 or more

[rboyle]

BTW, I'm not complaining or saying we got it better or worse. It's just as hard everywhere to get to a grade point 8. Things are tough on everyone.

[Billy Harper]

Or you could just buy a Craigslist car put a battery hold down fuel Check valve etc never make a pass down the track just tech the car in and get 8 grade points like some people 🤔

[Larry Hill]

Hey, Bruce! I don't think you have been racing in quite a while. How did you come up with 8 grade points?

Patsy

[Ronald Urquhart]

I'm sitting here with a grade 7, Still my go to the baby gators. Maybe they should aloud more cars with a 64 car qualified field.

[Bruce Noland]

Originally Posted by Larry Hill

Hey, Bruce! I don't think you have been racing in quite a while. How did you come up with 8 grade points?

Patsy

Patsy,
I'm glad you asked. I can tell you that getting 8 grade points is not as easy or inexpensive as writing to NHRA every year begging horsepower reductions.

First you have to have a legal NHRA Stocker, then in my case, I towed that sucker to 8 grade point races and went to tech. It's not a particularly cheap process but it is legal and highly effective! Happy New Year!

[Larry Hill]

Slick move Bruce

[Larry Hill]

I'd type more but I have been having a severe case of writer's cramp.