{"id":2489,"date":"2012-07-31T13:10:10","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T20:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/?p=2489"},"modified":"2012-08-01T10:49:36","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T17:49:36","slug":"the-death-of-nhra-sportsman-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/2012\/07\/31\/the-death-of-nhra-sportsman-racing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Death of NHRA Sportsman Racing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Back in 1981, a\u00a0group of cars at the U.S. Nationals at Indy held a peaceful\u00a0demonstration because it was the last NHRA event their beloved stick-shift category, Modified Eliminator, would exist as an individual NHRA category. There were nearly <span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">100<\/span> MP cars in attendance, and yet the category was being phased out supposedly due to low car counts.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Today I looked at the pre-entry list for the upcoming <em>Northwest Nationals<\/em> coming this weekend to <em>Pacific Raceways<\/em>. I was stunned by the low car counts. Super Stock at this writing had 21 and Comp Eliminator only 17. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It is truly a sad day when the Sportsman ranks have shrunk to such low numbers and it is certainly a barometer of the future of our beloved sport. &#8211; <em>Roger Young, Edwards &amp; Young Racing<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Related articles<\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/competitionplus.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=1490&amp;Itemid=24\">The Day the Sportsmen Fought Back<\/a> \u2013 <em>CompetitionPlus<\/em> &#8211; Jan 2007<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/nhra.com\/events\/entrylist15.aspx\">Northwest Nationals Entry List<\/a> &#8211; <em>NHRA<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1981, a\u00a0group of cars at the U.S. Nationals at Indy held a peaceful\u00a0demonstration because it was the last NHRA event their beloved stick-shift category, Modified Eliminator, would exist as an individual NHRA category. There were nearly 100 MP &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/2012\/07\/31\/the-death-of-nhra-sportsman-racing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2489"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2498,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions\/2498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}