http://dragracingonline.com/analysis/xiii_10-marketing-1.html


I was just speaking with a Stock Elim veteran the other day about the contingency deal. He says a National Event he won last year paid about 60% in contingency money than the same event did three years ago. And several manufactors still owe him from that win.

Nice going NHRA. Soon to be: No Have Racers Anymore.

WOW,

NHRA is really going about it wrong in my opinion. Instead of making it easier for companies to pay contingency (which attacts racers) they are going to charge them $6,500 in addition to what they pay in contingency! Crazy.

NHRA doesn't pay enough in purse compared to the entry fee, so the class racers are really racing for contingency. And NHRA is biting the hand that feeds them.

Did I mention I am an IHRA member and don't race at NHRA events?

Must be tuff making a go of it at NHRA (no happy racers anywhere), even if you are a non-profit orginization,,,

NHRA pays Dallas Gardner over $400,000 a year for one hour of work a week -

nice job...LOL

what a bunch of frigin morons

All those idiots make more money than the president
of the USA and thats just wrong for the little they do

Is it time for another racing organization to rise to the top of the food chain?

I hope IHRA makes a lot of phone calls and the sponsors give them a chance - and racers follow suit!

I was thinking the old A H R A .

Not even worth a second thought!!!
NHRA is slowly dyeing. The put so Much into the Top-Fuel and Funny car to keep them alive they are killing everyone else.

There are too many places to race with out NHRA.

So many Other organizations and Independents that they won't be missed.

Maybe by the Class Racers. BUT if they miss them bad enough they can make their own Organization and be on their marry way. Probably be better off as well.

Looks like an opportunity for some of the sponsors - Jeg's, Summit, etc - to host their own Sportsman series and basically eliminate the NHRA middleman. Or at least form an organization and confront NHRA.
I've been thinking for years - at least since Compton took over - that NHRA would focus on and cater to their Pro classes, as they do in their race broadcasts, and eventually split off the Sportsman classes into another series. Perhaps the entertainment part (Pro classes) and the backbone part (the rest of us) of the sport will start to part ways.

ISRA is the way.

(Illegal Street Racing Association)

DO IT.


By the way, i thought NHRA stood for No Homebuilt Racecars Allowed...???

Did I miss something here ? ... this 65 huN figure is for track-sude banner display.

Still though ...

If you read the whole thing, the $6500 extra fee has to do with
taking the banners down at the end of the meet, as if the spectators
and racers leave any standing by the end of Saturday night.

And if you think the $400K Dallas Gardner gets is high try the
$700K Tom Comptom gets paid for his "work"..............

and recently I heard NHRA is wanting to change stock eliminator rules to 1980 and newer models only.....anyone else hear anything ?????

Rickster

NHRA got their marketing all wrong years ago when they started catering to the Pro classes. They failed to realize their money comes, not just from spectators but from racers and what'd they do? Start eliminating eliminator classes from national events, then divisionals. It was bad enough they got rid of certain classes & Eliminators years ago, but with their concentrating on Pro categories they're driving not just spectators but racers off to other venues where they can enjoy themselves.
Racers will race for little if any money but spectators don't want to get wrapped up in indexes & the technicalites of fuel racing, let alone the down time between rounds. With the new crop of factory race cars (CJ, Drak Pak, COPO) Nhra needs to resurrect the F/X class, & start marketing door-slammer racing like they did in the early 60s.