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| Tim R |
Posted - 02/19/2010 : 16:27:09 Would somebody please post the schedule for 2010. Between the Olympics and the USA banquet I might be able to get my schedule figured out. Then again maybe I should take a nap. |
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| gasguru1 |
Posted - 03/02/2010 : 14:08:10 Thank You. Jim |
| KandJ |
Posted - 03/02/2010 : 10:34:00 As of this morning the CF website shows that there will not be Jr. races on June 26 and 27. So, we will have to replace those races on our Jr. schedule. Jim |
| TIN INDIAN |
Posted - 03/01/2010 : 22:29:16    
Davey |
| andyschmall |
Posted - 03/01/2010 : 10:22:35 Maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to schedule on top of brainerd...  |
| Superpro |
Posted - 03/01/2010 : 07:28:43 I agree with being the best schedule in a long time. Great job board members. Thanks for all you guys & gals do! |
| Tim R |
Posted - 02/28/2010 : 20:54:23 WOW that could be the longest post ever on this site. I knew there was a logical explanation for the schedule being what it was, I just couldn't see it. In all my thinking of why things were what they were I never once thought to look at the BIR schedule. But then that is why I am the ass that I am. I do agree that with all the conflicts that come up the board did a very nice job on the schedule. |
| KandJ |
Posted - 02/28/2010 : 20:51:49 Gee, when I typed up that post I had 7 paragraphs! Now it's just one big one, oh well. Jim |
| KandJ |
Posted - 02/28/2010 : 20:44:30 It's not my place to speak for the board, but I think we did a good job with the schedule considering all of the obstacles. Put the BIR, CF, GC, and RF schedules on a calendar and you will see a lot of conflits. Picking two CF points races was the hardest part of making the schedule. Three of the five CF weekends conflict with BIR events. We didn't put a CF MDRA race on a BIR points race weekend partly because all of the BIR bracket races count for their points. We didn't use the CF August points race because it is the same time as the Nationals at BIR, and too many people wouldn't go for that idea. Both of the other two CF points race weekends conflict with a RF race on Sunday. The first CF weekend, May 1 and 2, just seemed too early in the season to pick with some people not ready to go. That left the June 26 and 27 dates at CF for the MDRA points races, these too with conflicts. That Sunday is another RF race and it is the Div. 5 Jr. championships at Eddyville. According to the NHRA website that event is scheduled to be done on Saturday, so a family could stop at CF on Sunday on the way home. Another consideration with the Jr. schedule is that we try to have Jrs. and the big cars at the same track on the same weekend to keep expenses down. We kicked around having the 2 CF races on 2 Saturdays, May 1 and June 26. Some racers could then chose to run CF on Saturday and leave to go to RF for Sunday. This has been done in the past but we decided that we wanted to get both races done on the same weekend to save our members the travel expenses and time of making 2 trips to Iowa. No matter what the schedule is we can't make everybody happy. Once again this year we didn't schedule any races during the summer holiday weekends. This gives members the freedom to go to Byron or maybe do some kind of activity other than racing. Overall, I think, this years schedule is the best and easiest to follow in quite a while. It only takes one trip to the north, one trip to the west, one trip south and 3 relatively short ones to the east to make it to all of the races. No matter how many points races you attend you can still participate in the Bonus Bucks program, the TNT Perfect Run program and the MDRA All Stars program for any races that you make it to. I hope this post is long enough for everyone, I started composing it yesterday, hey, I'm a slow typer. Thanks for your time. Jim Stockton |
| Superpro |
Posted - 02/28/2010 : 20:00:45 Brainerd is racing that weekend. |
| badd65 |
Posted - 02/28/2010 : 19:20:07 I understand the job of picking tracks and dates would not be easy,and i have no problem with the schedule. I have said and will say again, it just surprised me that it was not at CFR on the 5th and 6th that's all.
Let's face it we all have our own loyalties and will go where we want anyway.
Tom |
| 70 Boys |
Posted - 02/28/2010 : 16:31:14 I asked John about it and he said the JR dragster 2010 MDRA schedule will be looked at per Eddyville's hosting of the Div 5 Junior championships being scheduled on the same weekend as the MDRA race at Cedar Falls. Not sure of the outcome but it will be discussed. More info to come. Pretty sure the MDRA bracket schedule will remain the same.
Dave Engler |
| nobox |
Posted - 02/28/2010 : 14:19:21 Since I have not seen all the track info laid out on a single calender. I will not judge the Boards selection of race dates.
Lee Dugdale |
| brandonschmall |
Posted - 02/27/2010 : 22:25:19 Just an observation, but it would seem like no matter how the MDRA schedule is laid out, you would not be able to make everyone happy. I believe that that is why you would take your best 5 of 8 races like they allready do. Mainly because you can choose to go else where for a couple weekends and in the end, you would only be losing show-up points, and would still be in the hunt to win the points. |
| Tim R |
Posted - 02/27/2010 : 14:11:29 Hey Lee are you going to the carshow tonite? |
| Superpro |
Posted - 02/27/2010 : 13:58:13 June 5th & 6 wouldnt work for me. If that matters |