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Originally Posted by jones95runner
I can't blame them, and in from tn lol.
So what's the reason only about half of the ss trucks ran for ppl points this year and a lot chases ntpa?
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Originally Posted by Chris Tobin
For sure, schedule effected it as well... But PPL event truck counts seemed to be down at every event I was at this year... In year's past it seemed that the pullers would go to the PPL events no matter what, that no longer seems to be the case...
I'm not sure if it is rules or something else, but PPL has seemed to have lost a lot of their pull... Pun intended. hahaha  |
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Originally Posted by jones95runner
Seems to me people are getting tired of traveling 20k miles a year to run points. Ntpa seems to have a fairly centrally located pulls. Then hit the big 2 day ppl pulls
Or close to the house pulls.
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I think this is it. The number of events for NTPA GN points was around 7 and you got 10-11 hooks, all within a few hours of most folks (besides Tomah). PPL was around 12 events with 18 hooks and ranged from Wisconsin to NC. With PPL once you missed two hooks you no longer got Tow Pro money so you really had to commit to almost all of the events. I think only three trucks made all the PPL hooks (8 if don't include the TN hook) while 12 trucks made all the NTPA hooks.
I think PPL may even pay a little better than NTPA but if you want a shot at points championship you have to make a huge commitment.
There were certainly trucks that ran both but there were also some that stuck mostly to NTPA except Schied and some that stuck to PPL.
Once NTPA made it a GN class the number of trucks running NTPA more than doubled.