Notice of Cancellation of NOPI Colorado and NOPI Utah Events

Juan Henao

Obi Juan, AKA xero240
Driver
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.
 
wonder what they are gonna do about points?

i highly doubt that they will makeup these events later on in the year.
 
Hopefully that means double points/payouts at Nopi Nationals.

so far... nopi season is going down the drain.. not looking sooo good.
With the exception of the first event, they've all been pretty good I thought.
 
the tracks/events have been fun but when it comes to numbers...

we havent hit more than 30 drivers yet!
spectators have been super low too.

I don't know it sucks... but atleast we dont have another oval event.

Hopefully next year NOPI can get it back in gear, we will see.

nats is always double points/payouts. sux though. so juan. jersey??

no it isnt, only was last year because chicago got cancelled for us. im pretty sure that its normally single pay/points
 
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personally, i dont think nopi will have drfiting next year... only time will tell.

its sad b/c everyone complained the first year about drifting in parking lots... now, NOPI is actually using some decent tracks and layouts but still nothing.

we will see... hopefully i am wrong b/c i think nopi is a great series for drivers that cannot compete for any reason in FD or D1
 
yea i dunno as of now but the problem i think majorly is the gas cost now is nearly 2x what it was last year, diesel is up from 2.80 avg to 5.00 now. teams arent comming and neither are specs.... this gas shit is killing the world.
 
well is cost so damn much to get up to jersey and back i couldnt see doing that for every event without a big sponser backing you
 
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