NHRA is at it again. Yea, this will help. IDIOTS...

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.

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......