2008 NOPI Drag Racing Series Schedule - Tuner-Junction

njn63 · #1 (**permalink**) November 27th, 2007, 01:36 PM

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2008 NOPI Drag Racing Series Schedule

NOPI Motorsports is proud to announce its schedule for the 2008 “NOPI Drag Racing Series sanctioned by NHRA.” The 2008 season is set to become the best season ever. Whether you’re a racer, sponsor or fan, you will see differences right off the bat with the 2008 “NOPI Drag Racing Series sanctioned by NHRA”.

“We have never been more excited here at NOPI Motorsports than we are about the new 2008 season,” said Michael Meyers, President of NOPI Motorsports. “We have had so many positive things happen in the last few weeks, it’s really exciting for everyone who is involved with the “NOPI Drag Race Series sanctioned by NHRA.” We know the fans are going to love seeing incredible racing at each and every event all year long! NOPI is going all out to see to it that racers can compete against a strong field at each event, and that they will be taken care of like never before. We think the sponsors will immediately see and feel the excitement from the NOPI events, as we are headed to some of the top tracks in the country! We have a lot of work to do to get prepared and can’t wait to kick off the new season right!”

2008 “NOPI Drag Racing Series
Sanctioned By NHRA” Schedule

Dates: City and State: Track:

March 29, 30 Commerce, GA Atlanta Dragway

April 5, 6 West Palm Beach, FL Moroso Motorsports Park

April 26, 27 Atco, NJ Atco Raceway

May 3, 4 Englishtown, NJ Old Bridge Township Raceway

June 28, 29 Morrison, CO Bandimere Speedway

July 18, 19 West Valley City, UT Rocky Mountain Raceway

August 9, 10 Petersburgh, VA Virginia Motorsports Park

August 23, 24 Englishtown, NJ Old Bridge Township Raceway

In addition to the events above, NOPI will conduct two events not sanctioned by NHRA featuring sportsman racing and all the same lifestyle events synonymous with the NOPI Drag Racing Series. Those events will be held:

May 17, 18 Budds Creek, MD Maryland Inter. Raceway

August 2, 3 Epping, NH New England Dragway

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NOPI looks forward to seeing you there and would like to thank you for your continuing support for NOPI Motorsports.

Be part of the excitement. To learn more about the “NOPI Drag Race Series sanctioned by NHRA,” please contact Glenn Woods at glennw@nopi.com.

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Can't say i'm too surprised with this but it's amazing. No CA races, no midwest races. Might as well cancel the Utah/Co races and make it a east coast series.

This is without a doubt another nail in the coffin of "sport compact" drag racing. Can't say I care really because I never saw the point of differentiating the sport compacts from the regular series but I didn't expect this.

98'Lude · #2 (**permalink**) November 27th, 2007, 07:59 PM

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Can't say I care really because I never saw the point of differentiating the sport compacts from the regular series

I agree, racing is racing. Personally I hate NOPI, they designate WAY too much time for open session and honesly no one wants to watch that bullshit, thats what Friday nights are for.

njn63 · #3 (**permalink**) November 27th, 2007, 08:40 PM

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I agree, racing is racing. Personally I hate NOPI, they designate WAY too much time for open session and honesly no one wants to watch that bullshit, thats what Friday nights are for.

It's amazing though how many people talk on H-T about "keeping sport compact drag racing alive." I'm always sitting there thinking.. why? If we spent all the effort they spent bitching about the classes that exist they could easily get NHRA to slip every possible setup into Comp Eliminator and be racing for something meaningful. They already have previsions for Pro-Fwd and Hotrod style cars (if i remember correctly), meh.

This just cemented my opinion that if i'm going to build a race car, i'll run NHRA Divisional.