I'm not a huge NHRA fan as a whole and feel a lot of their requirements are a money grab. This past weekend at Bowling Green's Moparty event my buddy took his Super Pro Dart that runs 5.70's. After his his first pass they pull him aside and ask if his chassis is certified? It wasn't so they told him to slow it down or get it certified. It just so happened that for $235 a NHRA tech guy could certify it on the spot, which he did. The rub is not so much that they made him get a cert on his chassis, but they didn't ask about or look at his belts, helmet, flywheel, trans case, window net or a license. He doesn't have a license, his case and flywheel are out of date. So the chassis cert was nothing more than a money grab. This kind of stuff is why NMCA and similar events is gaining in popularity.

I know the history and understand what the NHRA has done for drag racing but IMHO it has turned from grass roots racing to a money grab focused on the Pro classes.