No prep, radial, and outlaw races are immensely popular, to the point where tracks have to turn people away at the gate...
And you can only see them by being there, or live stream...
Big payouts, and big car counts, and big spectator draw.
The sport isn't dying. The nhra is.
And there is more to drag racing than the nhra.
X4.
Pro stock died when it became a GM competitive only class. It just took 15 years to throw dirt on the grave. Not enough cars to fill 16 car fields.
No rule change for pro stock now will have any large impact on crowd or viewer size. That ship sailed and sunk.
Long term, NHRA can either add classes that younger people want to see, or close it's doors. I will give Clifford credit, he is at least trying new ideas. So maybe there is hope.
