As you may know, Drag Week registration has hit capacity of 200 cars (actually, there are a few more since we didn’t get the online registration shut off quickly enough). As of last Friday there are 78 cars on the wait list to join the event.

We are trying to make space for another 50 of them, but as you know, that takes careful steps in making sure there’s lane control to let that happen. We’ve contacted every track, explained the situation, and gotten more staff on board to help.

If you know of an experienced race director who will travel with us to handle race control, we’re taking names.

Also, we plan to send an email blast in early August asking for cancellations from any of the people who are preregistered but know they will not be able to go. As a reminder, registration is non-transferable so don’t plan on selling your registration on eBay or wherever.

Here are the things we’re seeking racer input on.

1) Opening up the race hours. We currently have racing from 9:00 to 12:30 each day. We can open up the days to 2:00. We would totally ditch the idea of holding cars at the track. Anyone could hit the road any time they want.

2) In addition to longer hours, we’d run the Daily Driver cars in a session from 9:00 to 11:00. All the other classes would run from 11:30 to 1:30. Finally, there would be a Daily Driver make-up session from 1:30 to 2:00 for those who arrived late or who wanted more passes for any reason. The other classes can also run during the make-up session.

Breaking up the run times like this does the following:
– Daily Driver racers can now watch the other classes run if they want.
– Track will be prepped between sessions so the faster cars don’t have to run behind the street-radial cars
– The faster classes have more time to get to the track in the morning or more time to prep.
– With the make-up session late in the day, no Daily Driver racer gets shafted.
– Every class has a potential 2-1/2 hours of track time.

Send opinions to [email protected]. If you simply answer on whatever message board you’re seeing this on, there’s no guarantee we’ll see it.

Thanks!

DF