1. Roll back some of the most complained about safety stuff.
2. Shorten the tour. Allow the pro and exhibition racers to do smaller venues as match racing. That gets money in the racer's pockets, helps the smaller tracks, gives more people a chance to see the show and can open the gates to smaller teams that can learn without going out in round one at a national meet.
3. Do the darn paperwork for contingency as stated in this article. You are already getting paid for doing the work.
4. Have an app so that anyone with a device can follow the ladders and teams at the track.
5. Get the extra people off the starting line and the tow vehicles and photogs out of the view!

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This not the first time that NHRA has gone after the sponsors for more money by making a policy change and that ended up hurting the racers Back in the mid 1970s the sponsors handle the paying out of contingency moneys, they kept what wasn't claimed and spent it the next yer and so on. NHRA decided that they would take over handling the contingency pay outs and have the sponsors pay them all the money up front and NHRA would keep waht wasn't claimed by racers at the end of the year and put into NHRA bank accounts instead od fefunding it back to the sponsors A lot of the sponsors,that had not signed a contract before the policy change was made for that year, drop out Many of those that had already signed up for that first year did not renew the for next year This was told to me by the Carter Carb. CO racer technical rep that use to attend all the NHRA racers and help us, that needed help, on setting our carbs up We got hose several diferent wys by that decision It is to bad that a organization that was started by good people with good intentions gets waylaid by greed along the way

that greed should be GREED in capital letters..these guys seem to think they've found a golden goose!

It seems the biggest complaint about NHRA is its lack of little guy support. Perhaps the answer is to establish an organization similiar to the "PRO" organization set-up years ago by the likes of Garlits or the (then) P/S group & go to NHRA with their list of compalints & suggestions.
Now on face value, many will say NHRA will ignore them & in all likelihood they're right. But this is a different era, with different yet similair problems (on both sides) and when presented not just with complaints, but solutions & assuming you'd have a large enough response maybe, just MAYBE, NHRA will listen. It's one thing to st back & complain, another to go to the "boss" & complain but when you go in numbers & not just with a complaint but a solution you can often get some sort of response instead of just having the door slammed in your face......