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Pro Mod Entry Lists
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Even worse E-Town has the smallest quota, everyone else has 24, 26, Indy has 30.
Even worse E-Town has the smallest quota, everyone else has 24, 26, Indy has 30.
I wouldn't pay any attention at all to that quota number.....its not like it's enforced. I'm guessing that the quota is probably formula-driven based on the number of classes racing at that event, track curfew, etc.
But like I said, I've never seen it enforced.
I'm pretty sure E-Town's Stock & Super Stock will get bumped up because of the abundance of them in the northeast, historically that usually is the case.
But it's no different than even last year, why cut back? Isn't this one of the majors, shouldn't it be treated as such?
I believe that the quotas are so that NHRA can better plan the pit layout. Each facility only has a certain amount of real estate so by limiting the amount of teams they can know how many teams they have to park.
Also I know that for the PM's they can't just enter and be accepted into any given race. They are required to earn "grade" points at events leading up to a national event and those grade points are used to determine who gets to enter a national event. More grade points=better chance of getting in. In the case of someone who only runs one national a year, they most likely won't get in unless they earn grade points at divisional events prior to the national or there aren't enough teams trying to enter the national.
vegasnitro
Nitro Member
I was wondering the same thing, how can Pro Mod racers earn grade points? Could they run Top Sportsman or something? Why would they if they could?
PM racers are required to earn grade points to enter national events. They can earn them by running NMCA events and by running Lucas Oil divisionals. At the divisionals there are 2 classes in Comp for them to run in, AA/PM and A/PM. The funny thing is that most PM cars can easily run way under either of those indexes so they rarely make full passes to prevent taking a hit to the index.
I work on a PM team and we went to the Houston divisional event last month to earn a grade point. I'm not sure who you would call "hitters", but in attendance also were Jeff Cummins, Jeff Naiser, Ron Muenks, and Jim Whiteley's son. Our team earned the grade points we needed to be entered in the Houston national this weekend. You can also earn grade points by entering national events from the previous year. Also past NHRA champions get automatic entry into nationals. Hope that clears it up at least a little.
Hey Randy. I wasn't trying to label who is or isn't a hitter. In my mind, anyone who runs that class is a hitter! But since I'm a rockhead at times, are you saying that PM is contested at divisionals? If so, I never caught that. What I meant was I've seen very few PM national event regulars run Comp. I assumed PM racers were treated like the other Pro classes with regard to attending nationals.
No offense taken Mr. Valerie. The class is a very tough class with a LOT of big hitters.
The actual PM class that you see ran at nationals is not contested at divisionals, so since that is one of only two race formats, (the other being NMCA races), we can earn those precious grade points, we enter in comp. Surprisingly there are 2 PM classes within comp. one is A/PM, which if my memory serves me correctly is for the nitrous cars, and AA/PM, which is for the blown cars. It's really kind of silly to have to run in comp. because most of the PM's can easily run under the index, which right now I think is 6.75 and 6.25. I know that our plan right now is to try and run another divisional or two and possibly an NMCA race to earn enough grade points to hopefully be able to enter and be accepted to Indy. Hope that clears it up a little more.
TooTall999
Nitro Member
Is it just me or does anyone else feel it's a little odd that the so called "exhibition class" Pro Mod is drawing more cars than any of the Pro car classes? You'd think Glendora would wake up and realize this is a growing class and deserves more exposure! I'd love to see Pro Mod as a full time class at all national events.
