What is your source for this information? Are you talking national events? [/quote]

The Gatornationals sold out this year. Brainerd was packed, even on Friday for the national event. Local tracks had the highest car counts ever this year, for misc. events. How many years in a row did the World Series of Drag Racing at Cordova have to turn fans away at the gate?

Plain and simple, the sport is NOT dying.

Jx ... high ATTENDANCE as far as the race cars ? ABSOLUTELY... but not spectators!

Pull up some of the videos of the stands !

1200 cars or 1200 entries. I heard it was 1200 ENTRIES. That's a BIG difference. We are not allowed to double enter in NHRA divisional/National races, one category one car period. We have a VERY large facility, in fact one of the largest in the country. It is much bigger than Norwalk for sure. We get a ton of ENTIES for the fling as well. But not that many individual cars for sure. Will 1200 individual cars even FIT in Norwalk, I would find that hard to believe, Ive been there many times and the NMCA fills up a good chunk of it with just a few hundred cars. But could be wrong, but my understanding is 1200 entries/tech cards not cars. no matter just a small attempt of one-upmanship I suppose

On another note nice to see some of the big bucks stuff is starting to going away from double/triple entries with one car. FWIW we will be lucky to fill a field for the upcoming Mopar race here in Vegas and Saturday has a $10k and a $5K Sunday if you can run Q32 or $2500 for S/Pro

1200 cars. No double entries allowed. Both sides of the track are filled including the north 40 acres on the part side of the track out by the airport. We race Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, first round of the Classic on Saturday and if you win first round Sunday again. I’ve gone to around 40 of them.

Ohhhh no buybacks either.

Very cool that's a lot of cars. We fill the place up pretty well at NMCA races but a lot of 100' rigs there too. So apparently NHRA is not so dead then, since Norwalk is an NHRA sectioned facility

How about those complaining about the sport dying, start promoting instead? Is the ticket price for a NHRA event high? Maybe, but what isn't today? If I go to a National Event on a Friday, I get a ENTIRE day of racing, and can walk the pits all I want. How much does it cost to see a Baseball, or Football game for 3 hours? We don't live in 1960's times for the cost of things. Don't want to spend that much? Hit up your local tracks. They would love to see you. Support them. Pay your $10 entry, and hit up the concessions. Buy a T shirt... You will still get a FULL days worth of entertainment for less than $100.

jX ... you sound like a MOUTHPIECE for NHRA !

Watch it Doc...

The stands often fill and empty based on what is running. Like previously mentioned several races have had days that have sold out.

There are many things I would like to see NHRA change, like increased Stock and Super Stock quotas at National Events. However even though people complain abut NHRA "watching the bottom line" if they don't do that they will not continue to exist. In my opinion it is that simple.

Totally understood BUT I’m judging based on when the most popular cars ARE RUNNING. Someone mentioned they thought or were told that Gainesville was sold out ? Pull up your dvr or vhs tape of the race ... pit side had some bits of the stands empty and the other side had a BUNCH open

The last divisional I went to was about 4 years ago at Tri-Stata in Iowa. I walked the pits a few times. There were close to 400 cars there, and I counted a grand total of 2 open trailers and 4 single rear wheel pickups. There weren't even a whole lot of duallys in the sea of motorhomes. toters, and stackers. Apparently things aren't that bad in the Sportsman ranks.

Kinda early but.

Isn’t it ALL ABOUT the Glory of that NHRA win .. be it a divisional or national event ?

The first year we ran the NHRA Winternationals in 1973 had over 600 sportsman entries, less than 100 Pros
The last NHRA division 7 race I went to in Phoenix in 1985 had 133 Super Street racer entered and more S/G and S/C cars than S/ST
How many national races this year had less than full fields in the pro ranks,3?, 6? or ?

Vegas 2 has sold out 2yrs in a row.... you might have been able to get a GA tik, but that puts you in the blazin sun allll daaay looong!

I need to get back there.... been awhile