Quote: LOL, take off the tinfoil hats, here is the press release:
South Georgia Motorsports Park joins IHRA 2/19/2015 Norwalk, OH
IRG Sports + Entertainment™ and the International Hot Rod Association™ (IHRA) are proud to announce South Georgia Motorsports Park has signed a multi-year sanctioning agreement to join the IHRA as a member track.
Located on U.S. 41 in Cecil, Georgia, South Georgia Motorsports Park (www.goracesgmp.com) is under new ownership. Ozzy Moya, of Orlando, Florida, also owns IHRA-sanctioned Lakeland Dragstrip in Lakeland, Florida and Orlando Speedworld Dragway in Orlando, Florida. Moya purchased South Georgia Motorsports Park earlier this month.
"We are pleased to welcome Ozzy's newest track to our IHRA family," said IHRA President Scott Gardner. "South Georgia Motorsports Park is a beautiful facility and Ozzy is a respected member of the IHRA and drag racing community."
SGMP's 2015 season opens this weekend with the Duck X Productions "Lights Out 6." For more information on South Georgia Motorsports Park, please call (229) 255-2250.
For more information, please contact the IHRA at (419) 663-6666 or visit www.IHRA.com. Follow @IHRA on Twitter and Instagram. Follow us on Facebook.
Yes, but WHY it happened was the issue. There was no intention to switch the track to IHRA, UNTIL the NHRA called DURING the event and told them "we will not insure this event, because we don't feel it is a FAMILY environment".........that's BS. Way to go guys......show your azz, lose one of the nicer tracks in Division 2......good job.
Now Ozzy MAY have intended to switch to IHRA later, but certainly not WHILE an event was going on......plus, the track already had scheduled division II events, where turn out is always good, so "why mess with it" was the prevailing thoughts.
All this and the WAY it went down was confirmed to me this morning, by someone who was involved with the whole debacle. Ozzy and Duck had already been in contact with NHRA, all was good and the "status quo" was to remain from previous owners and the arrangements they had. Then you have pits full of cars, event IN PROGRESS and get the call, saying basically "we changed our mind"......nice job
