Vote 1/8 or 1/4 mile

[caddobass]

May 1st 2010 TRRP will hold a vote to either run 1/8 or 1/4 mile. You will have to be racing to vote, when you buy your tech card write in on the top of it 1/8 or 1/4 to vote. TnT tech cards & Jr Dragster do not have a vote, you must be racing in one of their classes to vote.

[cainsw]

Hey bob, Wayne and anyone who still comes here needs to go to TRRP site and voice your opinion about getting a trophy street class going

[leadfoot]

I did, I just don't think they really want to do it. Looks like most of my racing may be done. Sad day.

[caddobass]

I called Chris just the other day and told him the same thing Bob. What would you think about getting a few winner and runner-up trophies to give the track for a Friday nite race? I really believe we could talk Robert into it if we give them the trophies Bob. It may be only you, Phil, and myself racing, oh wait Chris may run something.

[cainsw]

Bet your ass I'll be there racing something!!

[leadfoot]

Wayne, you know I have offered, on their board, to sponsor some Friday night racing. I'd be more than willing to buy trophies, and maybe put up some money, even.

We've got to figure out a way to get the younger crowd in on it.

I don't know why Robert won't even consider it.

I'm going to post an offer on their board Monday. Get some people on the board to support it.

It really disappoints me that I have no place to race. I'm not going to go there on Saturday to run f**kin' eighth mile.

Anyway, look for a post on their board Monday, and see if anything happens.

Somebody local has got to get Robert's ear.

[caddobass]

I agree with you Bob, I just can't believe a track is running without a class for beginners. How do they plan on a furture with no class for someone to start in. I know that by no means are we beginners, but I'm not going to run 1/8 mile. Early in the year Robert told me he would let us have a friday nite race if we could show him the cars. But I've just about given up hope.

[leadfoot]

I'll post up an offer on Monday, and see what they say. If they even consider it, we've got to try and come up with 15-20 cars.

It will be what I consider a sweet offer, but I don't know if it will matter. They seem, for whatever reason, dead set against it.

All they can say is no.

[caddobass]

Just maybe we are over-thinking this Friday Night Fights by looking to the track to run it. I was told early in the year by Robert that on Friday TnT nights he would allow grudge matches or races. What if we run the street bracket race from the pits? Somewhat like we did years ago, we set up the race in the pits, then come back around to the pits with time slips and figure out the winner. I know there would be no dial in delay start, both cars would be leaving at the same time. We would have to look at the time slips to see who ran closest to there time to get the winner every round. What I'm thinking is that the track will see just how many cars are interested in a Friday night bracket race and change their minds.

[cainsw]

I like it Wayne.

It would def. be different too. It could be our own brand of racing.

Friday Night Outlaw Brackets.

Everyone interested can come over to our tent at the beginning of the night and sign up on the notebook. Lets say gates open at 6pm, you could make all the tnt's you want until around 8pm. You would have until 8 to sign up. At 8pm everyone meet up at the tent and write down your first round dial on the notebook. If we have 16 cars everyone draws a number, then 1 races 16, 2 races 15, 3 vs 14 and so on. Then we go get in line and make a pass. This is where the really different part comes in, we don't even actually have to race each other, just compare slips with the one you were suppose to race and that determines who moves on. Then stop back by and readjust your dial if you want and get ready for the next round. And we could have first round buy backs and that could go to the winner as a bonus.

I think it would be fun because this would make it something really different. Plus it would get the newer guys to get to know the older racers. Of coarse we could tinker with the format until we got it right. It wouldn't hurt to give it a try, it looks like we have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

[caddobass]

I think we could leave the word OUTLAW out, but I think we could get some bracket racing in on Friday night. In fact I really think we could get this to work. We could start something here that would be different and fun. It may take awhile to get a good system that works, but I know we could do it. Let's keep Bob's Friday Night Fights name alive and go with it.

[cainsw]

This would be kinda cool. Think about, this would make everyone run all out every time without ever letting off. May the best bracket racer win! No worrying about the other guy sand bagging or any of the other BS games some guys try to play.

Something else we could do is all make our 1st pass then draw a number and that is the racer that you would have to compare with. This would make it so none of us would know who our opp. is until after the pass is made. This would def. be way different than anything we've ever done! It would basically be TnTing with a twist. The track wouldn't even know we were bracket racing ;DI think it could be a blast

[leadfoot]

Guys,

How about this, we call it "The Friday Night Package Deal', instead of running it like a bracket race, we all put five or ten in the pot, depending on what the majority wants, I'd be for ten! ;D

Then, from say 8 to 10, you make four passes, each time you write in the entry book your dial, then add your RT and your ET, from a perfect .000 package, and best package wins the pot.

Redlight and/or breakouts would not be accepted. Only greenlight and above dial passes would count.

This way you could hone your RT's and make some money. A seventy-thirty split could be used for winner and runner-up.

No announcements to the track, f**k them, and entry would be on the down low!!

[cainsw]

That sounds good too Bob. I think we can get us something new and fun going. We should have been having this conversation years ago.

[caddobass]

Lot of good ideas here and many different things we can try and still have a good time. Chris do you have the car ready yet. I started to post what we were thinking of doing on TRRP site, but to hell with that. We need to get the word out some other way.

[cainsw]

It is almost done. I've been working on it some. I could have it ready in a few hours if I really jumped on it.

I think we could have some real fun trying some of these ideas. Got any other ideas?

I say screw letting the track know what we're doing, at least for now. We have enough people in our group of racers to have some serious fun. Besides it looks like they want to treat us like we are too much trouble so screw em we'll do our own thing and when it starts working for us, then we can tell them, see, told you so. I still can not believe they are so stupid to turn down the offer Bob made them. They had NOTHING/ZERO to lose by giving it a shot!

[caddobass]

There are alot of things we can try, with it being TnT we can get in plenty of passes. We can run a winner & losers bracket. Where all winners run each other, when you get beat you go to the losers bracket. The winner in the winners bracket would sit in the hot seat til there is a winner in the losers bracket. This would mean that the two winners (winner & loser brackets) would meet. The winners bracket driver would only have to win one time in the final, the losers bracket driver would have to win to races against the winners bracket driver. This would give everyone a second chance, you would have to be beat twice to be eliminated.