Nhra

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bubbacurry1 said:
there should be an NHRA forum. that is all. carry on.
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If there is sufficient interest, I can stick a drag racing thread. I suggest calling it "Keeping Sraight" or "The Straight and Narrow". Or, simply "Draggin" or ?. That way it will not be restricted to just the NHRA.

If you want, start a thread with a poll question "Do you want a drag racing forum?"
 
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JTrainDavis said:
I think drag racing is a thread type deal, kind of like NHL.
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yup. ....just on the outside looking in of the mainstream.



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John Force Racing rules your faces. :rock:
 
#5
#5
Speaking of Drag Racing. ...for those of you who didn't now.


Memphis Motorsports Park (Now Memphis International Raceway) is back in business.

Memphis International Raceway

It's going to become an IHRA sanctioned track and there is a ADRL show scheduled for May 20-21.

:rock::rock::rock::rock:
 
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bubbacurry1 said:
IHRA=sux


We are probably gonna run the XTF class in Memphis.
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The IHRA provides an alternative way with some different classes, or at least it did when I ran in it many years ago. I knew the founder, Larry Carrier, a friend of the family.

It is not up to par with the NHRA today, but it was giving them quite a run back when Larry still ran it.

I'm not up to speed on classes. What is XTF?
 
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rbroyles said:
The IHRA provides an alternative way with some different classes, or at least it did when I ran in it many years ago. I knew the founder, Larry Carrier, a friend of the family.

It is not up to par with the NHRA today, but it was giving them quite a run back when Larry still ran it.

I'm not up to speed on classes. What is XTF?
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Extreme 10.5. big horsepower on a 10 1/2 inch slick.
 
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when i was in college i had the pleasure of working the NHRA event with a local TV production company based out of Bristol. this was about the time they started racing the funny cars and top fuel against each other.

basically, i was the runner between the filming crews at various points around the strip. this gave me an all access pass to wherever i wanted. nothing will match standing in the staging area when the lights on the tree go off. being 15 ft from 8500 is something you feel.

the US Nationals are on my bucket list. it's the only thing left in Indianapolis i haven't been too.
 
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bubbacurry1 said:
Extreme 10.5. big horsepower on a 10 1/2 inch slick.
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When I ran a 57 Chevy it was J/Stock, with all the classes competing with each class winner going into the final Stock Eliminator with time handicaps based on the class national record. There were several Eliminator brackets, Stock, Super Stock, Street, Modified, Competition, Top Gas, Top Fuel and Funny Car are what I remember. Pro Stock was not yet a class.
 
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i will add i also worked the Super Chevy event with them as well a few times. that was pretty badass too. at the time (i had no clue who he was) the company was working with Big Daddy Don Garlits. somehow i lucked out and was assigned to drive him around all weekend shooting pieces. very neat guy.

they also busted out the jet cars that weekend. now, that was something to see.
 
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#12
I've taken some pretty cool drag pics, I'll have to post a few in here.
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doozer said:
when i was in college i had the pleasure of working the NHRA event with a local TV production company based out of Bristol. this was about the time they started racing the funny cars and top fuel against each other.

basically, i was the runner between the filming crews at various points around the strip. this gave me an all access pass to wherever i wanted. nothing will match standing in the staging area when the lights on the tree go off. being 15 ft from 8500 is something you feel.

the US Nationals are on my bucket list. it's the only thing left in Indianapolis i haven't been too.
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Larry Carrier had Connie Kalita come to the first weekly drag race at Bristol to make three exhibition runs in his fuel dragster. This was when they were front engine, no slipper clutches, just a dog clutch and top gear only. I stood behind the starting line his third run. It was one of my most vivid memories (1965!) He smoked the tires the full quarter mile and never went straight the entire run. Imagine a burnout the full strip.
 
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definitely one of my most vivid memories. certainly a top highlight of mine as a racing fan. hard to forget being so close to something so powerful. being halfway down the strip, on top of a production truck, 10 ft from the wall is pretty incredible too. they're at full speed by then.
 
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doozer said:
when i was in college i had the pleasure of working the NHRA event with a local TV production company based out of Bristol. this was about the time they started racing the funny cars and top fuel against each other.

basically, i was the runner between the filming crews at various points around the strip. this gave me an all access pass to wherever i wanted. nothing will match standing in the staging area when the lights on the tree go off. being 15 ft from 8500 is something you feel.

the US Nationals are on my bucket list. it's the only thing left in Indianapolis i haven't been too.
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we attent the U.S. Nationals every year along with Topeka, Dallas, Houston, Bristol. We used to go to Memphis and Gateway too but they are no more.
 
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bubbacurry1 said:
he Q'd 12th and has to run Erica Enders in the first round. She set the new speed record in qualifying in Jeg Coughlins old car.
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Just qualifying in his first National in the most competitive pro class in drag racing is an accomplishment.
 
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superdave1984 said:
I asked this question a long time ago. I think the sport just doesn't get marketed well enough.
http://www.volnation.com/forum/nascar/32544-nhra.html
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I think you are correct, plus it is difficult to get the media's attention with NASCAR's marketing machine. Drag racing just doesn't translate it's speed, noise and smell on TV. If they could get everyone who is remotely a car person to attend a major race just once, the sport would have a tremendous growth spurt.
 
#25
#25
How do other forms of racing translate their smell to TV?
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