A little birdie told me that Nopi has cancelled the Utah & Colorado races....

Reliable source too..

Just figured this should be brought public so that people that are planning to travel far to get there know.

This doesn't look good

 

you are correct !

http://www.nopi.com/nopims/index.php

 

that bird is gonna be sitting on the dinner table, well done I might add if your correct.

 

From Nopidrag.com -

Effective immediately, NOPI Motorsports is forced to cancel two upcoming NOPI Events located in Colorado (Drag Race and Car Show) previously set for June 21st and 22nd as well as the Utah event (Drag Race, Drift and Car Show) previously set for July 18th and 19th of 2008. NOPI Motorsports has faced extreme weather at their past 8 events, which has affected NOPI events in a great way. Each event the NOPI staff has pushed through these adversities to accommodate all of its sponsors, racers and fans in the best way possible given the circumstances. Many times events have been postponed and made up at a future event due to weather shutting down tracks and making it unsafe to run on.



This unfortunate turn of events has placed a major financial burden on NOPI Motorsports, which already faces an extremely challenging economy. With fuel costs at a record high, people are watching all of their extracurricular activities, and taking a chance at attending an event that would possibly be affected by weather plays a negative roll. “We have been running top notch events for years now,” said Michael Meyers, President of NOPI Motorsports. “I have never been faced with anything like this. We are having incredible support from racers and fans this year, in fact some of the best action we’ve ever seen has taken place here in 2008. There was no way to forecast any of this. We are working through all of it to see how we can make these events up. I apologize for the inconvenience this has caused to everyone. This is a major setback for NOPI Motorsports and new territory for all of us.”



Makeup events have not been announced for the two cancelled events located in Colorado and Utah. The NOPI Motorsports staff is working on the possibility of makeup rounds, as well as determining points towards the 2008 championships. Each of these issues will be addressed here shortly.



The next NOPI event will take place at the New England Dragway on August 2nd and 3rd. Please stay tuned for future news and events from NOPI Motorsports for the 2008 season. If you have any questions, you may contact Jesse Poole at Theory Communication and Design at jpoole@theoryconcept.com or 954.428.1800.

 

wow...just wow.

i have a lot of opinions on this but i will hold back for now since i will probably just get censored anyways.

but this is amazing, a big shock.

 

Wowzers!!!

 

I know there's a bunch of people in utah that are LIVID right now.... Spend a year building a car and now there's really no national events. What a joke.

Wow... read it like 5 times now and still can't believe what I'm reading. Very sad.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Innes &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">wow...just wow.

i have a lot of opinions on this but i will hold back for now since i will probably just get censored anyways.

but this is amazing, a big shock.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Well we can see that the economy and gas prices aren't just hurtung us small people anymore...Its like a bad virus spreading!!!!

 

Wow.

Now what the hell am i going to do all next week with my vacation time . . ?

Not a good sign for things to come

 

WOW...nothing like last minute notice.....

 

Bad Luck.

 

Scary times we are living in right now...i feel for the guys that planned on attending these events.

 

You know what James... Let it out. I'm not censoring this one unless people get to name calling/slander/liable. I'm as shocked as you guys.....

 

Can honestly say tho.... Kinda saw that coming from NOPI.....

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by BLKTeg94 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I know there's a bunch of people in utah that are LIVID right now.... Spend a year building a car and now there's really no national events. What a joke.

Wow... read it like 5 times now and still can't believe what I'm reading. Very sad.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Tell them to save up some money and run the Outlaw race in October!!!!

Wow, i just realized how soon the Utah and Colorado races are... thats crazy short notice.

 

scary to think i have been spending all my time and every penny to my name to rebuild my car to compete in power street and now im starting to get this bad feeling that i may not have a series to race in.i realy want to see this sport grow don't get me wrong ,but it is not looking good

the economy is not gonna hold me back from racing ''ever '' but it kinda makes me wonder if i should start looking into another form of radial racing

 

Well I guess Nopi made my mind up for me.....

 

sanctioned racing is pretty much dead IMO

 

Sucks.

that's all i gots to say about that

 

You know what, I am TIRED if hearing the weather as an excuse .

Yes Georgia got rained out, but guess what ? They still kept all of our money for the people that showed up .

Only Final round in florida got rained out, everyone who was coming, went to that event.

Atco was fine on saturday and drizzled on and off on Sunday. Seems like they had a lot of people there to me .

E-town- Rained later in the day on Saterday and was beautiful on Sunday. Stands were packed.

MIR - Rained on Sunday on and off ( in open windows LOL ). Saturday was perfect. Everyone that was going to come to that race , was there on saturday. Which means they paid already.

So How does blaming the weather make an acceptable excuse to cancel 2 races?

It seems to me that the series was just poorly planned and/or poorly managed and that is the real cause of the cancellations.

At least just step up and admit it instead of hiding beind weak excuses.

/rant

 

Sucks for the people who plan ahead and buy plane tickets more than a day before the race!

Sucks for everyone else too i guess.

Good job Nopi!

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by BlownHatch &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">scary to think i have been spending all my time and every penny to my name to rebuild my car to compete in power street and now im starting to get this bad feeling that i may not have a series to race in.i realy want to see this sport grow don't get me wrong ,but it is not looking good

the economy is not gonna hold me back from racing ''ever '' but it kinda makes me wonder if i should start looking into another form of radial racing

</TD></TR></TABLE>Actually Mason Dixon has DOT races like once a month. Its a heads up 10.0 break out on a pro tree. The rules are street car, exhaust, stock susp., one power adder on DOTs, Allmotor cars can run 28X10.5 slick.

I raced it once last year and had a great time.

 

well we can still have fun here
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread/2320845

 

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Tell me about it......

 

Yes it is unfortunate that passed events have been postponed or cancelled, that is life you cannot expect every event to be without incidents. Yes gas prices are outrages and the economy is not where we would like it to be. This sport has come along way, with NHRA being our big brother who just left us to hang dry and now NOPI only giving the west coast 1 race for an entire season is also ridiculous.

This postponing or cancelling two races will only discourage young enthusiast who are inerested in the sport. As a person who is building a SFWD I feel as though there is not enough races and to cut 2 more is just .

This is gonna be a year to remember.