Jr safety and well being

[concerned]

For starters having the kids go all the way down the track and wait is all fine and dandy except for the fact they are getting towed back in the dark while you are sending big cars down the track. And only if you are nieve do you beleive the big cars are following the speed rules on the return road!!! I as a parent had to swerve over because a big car was barreling down on us. Is it going to take a serious accident for you to realize that is a serious safety issue? Second concern is the run times for the kids after 10 pm for first round are you serious? You have many big cars that run several classes so you have one driver run his car down the track 3 different times before the kids get to go down once and then you are in such a d**n hurry to get them all out of the way so big cars can get down the track and put the kids in danger once again!!! How about letting the big cars cool down a bit and running the kids between some of them?? Last night you were finally concerned about the kids when second round was close to or after one in the morning I dont quite remember what time for sure but it was redickulous. Had kids sleeping in their cars waiting!!!! I have one driver that will be going into a big car real soon and so far both my drivers say they DO NOT want to return to your track. Not having a drivers meeting before the race and letting kids and parents know the new return rules did not make any sence had kids all over the place after first time trial and big cars coming down the track was CRAZY!!!! Hope this put some light in what was happening Saturday night and i hope you fix this before you have a serious accident involving a child!!!!!

[junkyarddog]

Ok, to start I am not anything to do with staff just my own opinion. To start put who you are not leave name off I am sure intentionally. Eliminations typically always start at 6 or close to, not 10, juniors are usually done by 10-11. Saturday was just horrible, you can't blame anybody on the 3 major oil downs. Any track you run at would have had same time frame issue bc major oildowns. And to add for last thing is juniors used to run right back down beside track beside wall but no, somebody bitched about that too. I think it 's better way but doesn't make people happy then. Don't get me wrong I agree on where juniors return is not best spot, just way you came at this is not good. You are getting mad at something out of anybody's control (oildowns). IMO juniors need come back down beside wall, big cars will just have to wait until all have returned, yes takes a little bit but picking pieces of a junior up because ran over will be worse and longer. NHRA told track to do this way because a parent complained about how it was before, like forever before.

[concerned]

No name was not intentionally left out. Im Scott Becker. And yes i was mad d**n near got ran over because they can not wait to send big cars down till afrer all Jrs are gone!!! And there is no reaaon they can not run the kids a little closer together because that track lets big cars run multiple classes. Put them in-between. Let them get done at a reasonable time. Then you can have the track to yourselves. Never has seemed like a Jr friendly track since we have been racing anyways. Look at your weekly Jr count and that should tell you something.

[Darrel Goheen]

I agree that having the jr's on the cross over road and return road is a very bad idea. My understanding of why it was changed is because cars were sent down the track while there was still a non running jr along the wall. You can't send cars down the track when there is a jr along that wall and I know that didn't intentionaly happen. Just do it the old way but make sure all jr's are back before running cars down the track. I'd lots rather wait a few minutes on the jr's to get back than wait 20 or so minutes for someone to cool off their car or charge their battery.

[concerned]

I guess my having to swerve out of the way pulling my children back is moot to you? I put this on here so the Board members could see it!!! And beings the Jr car count was way more than they useually have you would think they would take time to have another drivers meeting. My point here is what they did was dangerous!!! I did not feel good when we had to swerve out of the way because a big car was coming right up on us. A 400# Jr is no match for a 3000# car. I'm sure if your grandchild was ran over or close to it your mood would change too!!!


2 Jr. Drivers dad
that wants to
keep 2 drivers
Scott Becker

[concerned]

And none of what I wrote was complaining it was to bring to light the situation. I was very profesional about every word typed.

[rusty40]

Bringing the situation to light is great and I agree with you 100%, something has got to be done before someone does get hurt. But when you post the exact same thing on a racing site that has nothing what so ever to do with SRCA to me that is complaining. Car counts are down a little this year, but I think working together and supporting the Jr program already in place at SRCA is a much better idea than promoting the other race track.

[GOLD CARD]

Drivers meeting could have hashed this all out sat instead of here . what was another 30 gonna hurt .

James Racing  

[trent]

If anyone wants to thank the person that got mad when they were running cars down the track while my son and I was standing down at the finish line trying to get his car down the return road after it broke it was me!  Trent Peninger   You can thank me any time I don t care!   I will do the same thing again if they do it again!!!  I just don t want to put kids in danger!!  If a child gets hurt because we can t wait 5 minute or less to get children out of harms way then I think we have our priorities messed up.  Safety should be the most important thing!  What would happen if someone would get hurt because we were in a hurry ?   It is simple all you have to do is have someone on a 4 wheeler to make sure all the jrs are clear.   Personally I want every jr program to grow.  we need jrs to grow so the sport can grow!   I think we need to revisit this problem and see if we can make it safer!   I hope srca will do that.  I also don t think we need to run jrs at dark thirty in the morning!!!


jr parent     Trent Peninger

[concerned]

Well said Trent. And congrats on taking another Wally home! That is what I was trying to get through SAFETY. They just moved the problem to another place where no one could see if something went wrong. Not hard to count cars or see the parents standing there waiting as they are coming back to make sure every one is back safe. Yes I am still Mad because we were almost made a spot in the dark!!

2 Jr. Drivers dad
that wants to
keep 2 drivers alive
Scott Becker

[trent]

Just curious were you towing the cars back and someone about hit you head on or about run you over from behind.     Was the driver not paying any attention?    Did the car have head lights?   Sometimes just letting everyone know what is going on can make things safer.   That means all drivers should be told where the jrs are going to be and to watch out for them!!!!     Thanks for the congrats!!

[concerned]

From behind and no car did not have headlights and we did have our tailight on. Car was coming faster than 15mph at us. Dont know if they were paying attention or not cause after i swerved that car flew past us.

[GOLD CARD]

I don't know anyone racing that don't mind waiting on the JRs to come back up the track / under the lights / and could be counted / to make sure we don't lose a kid / obviously the tower knows how many pair goes down the track and should be able to make sure they are all back. the return road is dangerous in a car let along a defenseless JR being towed. I have 1 working headlight just for the pot holes . On an obviously very late night / morning why not just interject a JR round whenever you want to get them done before midnight for sure. Make a new system in place for the late races like you do with the wind ? then the parents can't say they are being rushed. again I doubt they will trade safety for time ?

along these lines. when Arlen's duster ran my boy in elims. He blew it up and had a cloud that covered both lanes and looked like he may have tagged the wall. the ambulance didn't move . I told them that it looked like he may have hit the wall -- as they stood in front of the ambulance --- they said " oh really " as they still stood there ?? they never moved ?? had it been my car we'd have needed another one while I drove that one down the track to make sure. if your gonna have an ambulance at least use it . !!!

mike

[trent]

I was wondering if anyone that works or runs the track is working on this or is this just a few racers talking about a problem? I know someone is watching because some of the this is getting deleted.










4 hours after I posted this and no answer.     I think I got my answer!!!! 

[concerned]

Trent I guess if no one cares from the track to let us know our kids safety counts to them I will just send my concerns to a higher place. I just wanted to take care of this localy but I guess its not working. And I know someone is watching because another Concerned parents posts keeps getting deleted.