[Jim Wahl]

In the last couple of months I have been trying to get answers to some rumors I have heard and I recently I got them. They were not he answers I wanted to hear. Anybody who has tried to contact anyone in the IHRA knows how increasingly difficult it is to find anyone on the other end of the phone or the email you send. It was confirmed to me that there only but three people in the entire IHRA office now. Most have either been relieved or "retired" and are moving on. When asked if there was even going to be an IHRA next year the answer was....... well, lets just say it was NOT "Oh sure, we are doing fine!". I was also told that while the IHRA may be in business "technically" next year, it was doubtful the Sportsman racers would have any venue or be any part of the IHRA!
It seems that Mike Dunn has cut the heart out of the IHRA and that he believes they should be a Traveling Nitro Show complete with side show acts and clowns to draw spectators. Screw the racers who pay the bills (where have we heard this before?).

My initial question was to inquire about what had happened to the Drag Review Magazine. I was shocked to be honestly and directly told that there was no magazine anymore either in print or online and there was no plan to continue it ever again! When I asked if there was going to be a rebate for the cost that members had paid for the inclusion of the Drag Review in the membership fees I was told I would have to take that up with Scooter Peaco, the V.P. of the Association.

I hate to be the bearer of such terrible news but the facts are the facts and I felt that all the Sportsman racers who have supported the IHRA for all these years should know. I couldn't even be told that there would be a World Finals this year. I'm not sure I would go now even if they say there will be. I feel we have been lied to ever since Mike Dunn became President!

I would suggest that if you are concerned over this at all you call the only number that seems to get anyone who is alive at the IHRA office and let them know what you think of all this. I was told that all calls were being recorded so keep it civil, the people you talk to there are being "retired" very soon and are feeling the same betrayal that you as racers should be! Call now and call often! (419) 660-4215. Jim

I am disgusted!


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