[Jim Wahl]

NHRA are you listening? That's the way to respond to your customers. Cut back on your bloated, rotten, smelly corpse of a staff and learn how to run a business instead of a country club for over paid drunks! Compton needs to go back to selling dog food and let someone who understands racing take over, like Pat Joffrion. Fire the Vice President of toilet paper exchange, and several other V.P.'s of whatever and tighten your bloated budget like everyone else has to do, instead of just charging more and more so Compton can keep his $770,000 a year job. According to the news,WalMart has reduced prices on 28% of their wares in order to get more customers. What do you think would happen if they said "times are tough so we have increased our prices 50%"? That's just not how smart businesses work.

I give NHRA one to two more years of business before they fold. If they do not make a serious attempt to deal with this monetary crisis they will go the way of AHRA. NHRA must adjust internally and bite the bullet. Participation has already dropped off by 50% and major sponsors are dropping like flies and the only thing Compton and crew can think of to do is up the fees, entry and insurance to the remaining loyal customers?
Wake up Compton! This isn't YOUR NHRA, it's OUR NHRA! I'm not really sure how you got into the position you are in but you are an embarrassment and a lousy steward of MY NHRA! Turn the NHRA over to someone who has everyone's best interest at heart, not just yours. Jim