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hear Top Dragster is still a 6.00 index with IHRA

I went 6.00..6.02...6.03...6.03 at an ihra event this weekend and didnt get kicked out or DQ!!

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Originally posted by Crisco:
It is a done deal. I found out thru a good friend that is very close to Larry.

What exactly is he getting? Property, Summit Deal, Staff????

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Originally posted by Undertaker II:

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Originally posted by Crisco:
It is a done deal. I found out thru a good friend that is very close to Larry.

What exactly is he getting? Property, Summit Deal, Staff????

That was my question as well. What assets are there?

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Originally posted by 67TSCHEVY2:
Ihra has been a failure for a long while and ran off its core racers 10 years ago. NHRA has customers paying well over $400 to enter a national event and for the most part fields are full in the sportsman ranks. Ihra has zero chance of affecting Nhra's bottom line.

EXACTLY!

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Originally posted by Bucky:
The time is ripe for new sanctioning bodies. The NHRA business model is struggling today. There will be others coming I bet.

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Originally posted by Bucky:

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Originally posted by Undertaker II:

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Originally posted by Crisco:
It is a done deal. I found out thru a good friend that is very close to Larry.

What exactly is he getting? Property, Summit Deal, Staff????

That was my question as well. What assets are there?

I don't think there are any? PBIR and Memphis were sold off by IRG, with the land to be developed, I thought? The only assets would be membership fees, the huge Summit deal, and whatever sponsor commitments they have.

Some suit with IRG sent a letter to member tracks, Drag Champ posted it on their FB page, talking about the IHRA employees who left having non-compete clauses. I can't figure out how to link the pic here.

And since Keystone switched to IHRA in 2002, I preferred them to NHRA. IHRA is more sportsman oriented, to me as a bracket racer. I do wish they would have been able to keep running class and index Pro Ams, even though I don't run them, I enjoyed seeing it here.

A lot of people are "Right" here yes, both IHRA and NHRA are struggling and most of it is their own fault in my opinion. NHRA is the big show and has done everything they can to run off Racers, Spectators and Sponsors. IHRA has not done much in 10 years. I do hope this management change helps the IHRA but honestly not expecting much change if any.

Even with all that said I do not see another _HRA stepping up ever. Drag racing like it or not is getting smaller every year and that makes it harder to start a new deal and make it profitable.

Around 2000 we had 5 or 6 tracks in Dallas Fort Worth area and each track had maybe 150 cars running the 22 week bracket schedule to make the team of 50. For the Bracket Finals we would have over 750 cars. If I remember right we had 19 tracks in NHRA Division 4. That did not include the IHRA tracks here. Now we do not have any tracks that run a 22 week bracket points schedule. Not one. And they are having a tough time getting 50 racers for the team. I have seen teams bring less than 20 cars to Bracket Finals.

Back then I bet we had 5 times more cars racing every week than we do now. With no more cars and racers than we have now I just do not see another _HRA ever happening.

annything on what this dude plans on doing?

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Up above this thread is a link to Jed and Lukes blog where there is some info on the hold up on this deal----What is left for IRG to sell, they already bled it dry.

No one gives to ****s, but truth be told, what IRG did to IHRA division (Pro Am) and National (Nitro Jam) was the main reason I retired from many years of racing. Also, the loss of a local track team at the bracket finals in SC. I cherished those events and planned my work vacations around them. For me there had to be more than local bracket racing.
Hopefully the new owner can return IHRA to being the fun HRA again.

I to liked the bracket finals in SC till Pageland got bought by an idiot that knew nothing about bracket racing. Kind of slowed me down a lot. But unlike most on here I knew about 2 of those IRG boys long before they got involved with IHRA and knew it was over as soon as they could rob every nickle out of it till there was nothing left. They had no interest in racing. And now what do they have to sell?, theres nothing left.

It's a done deal.
https://www.ihra.com/component...sports-entertainment

I'm wondering how bracket finals are going to be run. From what I understand, just about all of the division directors are gone, and the support staff, who would go the bracket finals, also are gone. The IHRA site shows 2 people on their Contact Us page:

https://www.ihra.com/contactus

Chuck, I would say a call to Jeffers is in order. Doesn't look like he's gotten the website updated yet-maybe doesn't have the people to do it, but the bracket finals are being promoted and are just around the corner. It would be nice to know sooner then later in order to make plans to attend!

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Originally posted by ChuckT:
I'm wondering how bracket finals are going to be run. From what I understand, just about all of the division directors are gone, and the support staff, who would go the bracket finals, also are gone. The IHRA site shows 2 people on their Contact Us page:

https://www.ihra.com/contactus

I can think of one IHRA official they should fire immediately.

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Originally posted by Undertaker II:
Chuck, I would say a call to Jeffers is in order. Doesn't look like he's gotten the website updated yet-maybe doesn't have the people to do it, but the bracket finals are being promoted and are just around the corner. It would be nice to know sooner then later in order to make plans to attend!

From what I understand, there hasn't been much communication from Jeffers to the race tracks. I see the bracket finals being promoted on the IHRA FB page too.

And nothing from Jeffers yet. Pretty strange i think.

In the Greater East Texas service area, IHRA is the only game. I "hope" he is aligning his ducks and organizing his machine.

I don't run IHRA stuff but here is a recent post from a long time track owner up in the Missouri/Kansas area who knows them well.

OK guys another long post about the future of IHRA, please read this carefully.
The new owners of IHRA, whoever they are, Larry Jeffers and associates, have taken control of the association. I have received almost no communications from them.
They have not proven to me they know what they’re doing.
The former IHRA staff, as I have said before, proved to me that they know how to run a sportsman drag racing Association. Those guys currently are waiting out a noncompete clause, so we won’t hear anything from most of them for a while.
Meantime a gentleman I respect very much, Don Scott, will be making an announcement in the next day or two for a new association called the World Drag Racing Alliance, WDRA.
I believe that most IHRA tracks, will be WDRA next year, including Mo-Kan. This association will reflect all the values that it took 18 years for the former staff of IHRA to create. You will see my name of the WDRA track advisory board.
At this time I would not recommend renewing an IHRA membership unless you want to keep the participant accident insurance in force. For those of you going to Eddyville if you’re not currently an IHRA member, or your membership has lapsed, Gerald and I have agreed that we’re not worried about that. You don’t have to have a current membership to run the finals this year. However again please understand if your membership isn’t current you will not have participant accident insurance.
I believe we will have the new owners and staff of IHRA on site and I suspect they will be pressuring you to join or renew your IHRA membership. Please know that is totally your decision.

That's interesting about you don't have to have current membership to run the bracket finals. Wonder where that info came from? Everything about bracket finals is all still on the old IHRA site with old info.
I saw they had Sportsman Spectacular races scheduled still. This past weekend was Farmington, was it just a Farmington run race with an Ironman or was IHRA there in any capacity?