Oct. 23 2004

[Calum]

This track is the most disorganized, waste of my time I have ever seen! I got to the track at 10 am and I was only allowed one run. I was denied a second run. How in the hell is someone supposed to try to get a dial in time on a single god d**n run. Let alone try something new with my set-up. Believe it or not, not everyone has been doing this sence the beginning of time. I've been drag racing for four years now, not a long time, but enough to know when I'm being ripped off.

Now on to the idiots running the track. YES DRAG RADIALS WORK BETTER WHEN THEY ARE HEATED UP. Trying to get that cup and a half of water that the guy at the burnout box puts down is like pulling teeth. I'd swear is putting down his own blood. And to the mental midget who was starting the tree this morning, if I'm only going to be allowed one run could you at least wait until I get fully staged before you start the race.

I'd be a huge supporter of this track if you people could just get your heads out of your asses. On a very busy day at any other track in the Maritimes the worst I've ever gotten was 4 runs before they started the gamblers. Thanks for wasting my time and money.

FA-Q

[Doug Decker]

Dear Calum : I am sorry that you feel you had a negative experience at Greenfield Dragway today . However here are some facts for you to consider .
1) The track was open and ready to send cars down the track at 9:00 am as advertised .
2) Today's vehicle attendance was in excess of 120 race vehicles .
3) We ran open time trials in the morning until about 10:45 am , at this point we closed the lanes because there was about 60-65 vehicles in the staging lanes .
4) We had an oil down RIGHT on the starting line when a trans-axle deposited 2 quarts of synthetic oil on the racing surface . This probably took about 30-45 minutes to clean up .
5) Time trials were then conducted in class sessions . All classes got 1 time trial under this schedule .
6) The gamblers race started at around 1:30 pm , with 79 vehicles registered .
7) At the end of round 1 of the gamblers , we started to run time trials between rounds of the gamblers race . This was announced many times on the PA system .
8) The gamblers race was concluded at about 5:20 pm . That was 7 rounds of competition to complete .
9) We ran time trials until 6:00 pm at which point it was starting to get to dark to race safely .
I believe there was plenty of opportunity that you could have had more time trials if you had stayed at the track . I say that because I looked you up in our database of racers . Considering you made this post at 4:00 pm Atlantic time , you would have had to leave the track between 2:00 and 2:30 pm , a full 3 1/2 to 4 hours before we closed the track .
If we are such idiots at running the track , maybe you should join the Association and enlighten us as to how we can improve , none of us have ever made the claim we are perfect .

Doug Decker
Treasurer NSDRA .

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