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FYI ... when Bader fills the seats at divisional races it is the show that fills the seats, not the sportsman racers. He starts his Saturday night show at 6 pm and the only classes that run are Comp, Top Dragster, Top Sportsman and alcohol. Throw in wheelstanders, jet cars and funny cars, followed by fireworks and you fill the seats. The other sportsman racers are done by 5 c'clock.

Jim

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Yeah I should have known better than an endorsement from Dallas Gardner, another bean counter who f'd up NHRA before Compton raped and pillaged it.:( Gardner and Light need to be put out to pasture too so the real improvements can begin. A corporation, no matter how large for profit or not, doesn't need more than one CFO. that is only for balance, but they need a visionary who knows what the hell is going on, knows his "customers"

Let's just hope PC's passion ranks higher than his penny pinching.

http://competitionplus.com/drag-raci...ess-conference

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Mickey Wahley for President. No minced words there.

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I heard as part of his golden parachute he gets a designated driver to take him to ti**it bars for life.

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"“The more than 22 years I spent helping to build the great team, strong partnerships and robust operations the NHRA now enjoys makes this decision a difficult one.”

Ummm...."strong partnerships and robust operations"....he's obviously drunk or delusional or both.

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When Compton took over NHRA had just lost the Winston sponsorship. In just a short time he had procured a series sponsor. According to the financial reports of the organization the financial position has greatly improved during his tenure. There is no way anyone will please all the racers or fans, drag racing has so many facets to it. But, as far as steering the organization through serious financial challenges he has done a good job.

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I can appreciate what you are saying, to some degree.

However, if you take a "non profit" organization and turn most every decision purely toward making a profit, at what ever cost you deem necessary to due paying members of that organization, and further remove those dues paying members from the decision making process, you can improve the financial position of that "non profit" organization.

It would be far more impressive if he had improved the financial position of the organization without doing it on the backs of and at a cost to the individual dues paying members that are the back bone of the sport.

Not to mention the fact that due to the financial decisions of NHRA, the sport is very unhealthy now. Car counts are down all over, almost without exception, and it is not at all uncommon to see one or more of the pro categories unable to fill a 16 car field at a national event. It is also not at all uncommon to see very successful championship winning racers completely unable to secure necessary sponsorship to compete.

There are a lot of organizations that look good financially, on paper, but are not really doing well at all.

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Nailed it

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Alan is exactly correct.

Enron looked very good on paper until the very end when the fraud was exposed.

Just My 2 Cents
Rick Cates

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So here's my question and I'm sure it's been asked many times. What if anything can we do about it? Here's my story. I grew up at the race track and worshiped all the stock/SS stock racers and their family's. I dreamed that someday I could be in the staging lanes with them racing and I was for a short time till I ran out of money. I was and am addicted to drag racing and not just the racing part. I'm talking about all the great people you meet there and the comradery. One of my favorite things is to hear the stories the (for lack of a better term) old times tell. Not that I'm young any more (40). I've been on the sidelines for 3 years now and it sucks but I just can't afford to do it.
I've always felt if you want to get new and younger people interested in this sport make JR. Dragsters more affordable IE sealed crate engines. I just thing it's so wrong that only rich kids can race. Sorry I needed to vent. I keep reading pissed of people posting on hear but I haven't seen any real suggestions of what we the sportsman racers can do about it. Yes I understand nobody comes to the track to watch stock or super stock race but for me it's the most fun to watch. Is the reason non racers don't like is because they don't get it or know many of the characters that are doing it?
Have a great 4th everyone!