the nhra lost track of the little guy a long time ago which will lead to the death of the sport soon enough. one day someone will come along to fill he void they leave because there are a lot of folks that want to run. you see it all the time in the grass roots armdrop events that pop up at tracks that are starving for events. we have a track here that runs races that can't bring 20 cars to a test and tune the night before a race and less than 50 cars to the race. why it costs too much money! hell they would charge for the air you breath if they could. another event that we have locally is run at an airstrip with insurance and ambulance present there is tech as well. it costs 20 bucks to run what you drove up in and get as many runs in as you like. last event had at least 250 cars and a couple of thousand spectators. it has been building for a couple of years now. a lot of the cars are race cars that had stopped running due to costs now they are back and loving it again. it is heads up racing if you win great if not tough but everybody seems to be having a really good time!