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magnumv8 · 04-13-2009, 09:50 PM

I have been trying to get a handle on this and have a few comments....does anyone remember a number of years ago when NHRA had a membership drive to try and get the membership up to 100,000?....never made it.....now NHRA has had a few devastating events occur within a relatively short time (I realize they aren't the only ones,but they are the biggest)...anyone out there that owns their own business with employees knows what a high cost insurance alone can cost and with several tragic losses over the last few years I would be willing to bet that the insurance cost for NHRA went through the roof, so now to continue to operate they must pay it....now add the economic sucker punch which hit everyone with a major deal and took more dollars from the coffers of the "non-profit".I think they tried to plan ahead for a rainy day with the membership drive but got hit with the "40 days and 40 nights" and are close to drowning....so now we get hit with a knee jerk reaction to generate some "quick cash" where else can they get it and get it quick....remember the $100,000,000 deal that fell through that they were all excited about giving them the cash to do all the things that they wanted to do?.....(you would think someone would lose their job over losing THAT one)....good or bad we will never know what would have come of that....

As a member of an organization I look at the good things that they provide knowing that there are bad things that are hard to ignore, but I still feel the need to support and promote them...if every member out there would make an attempt (in theory) to "drum up members" it would only take a 15% success rate to reach 100,000 members....

Car counts have been dropping over the last decade in sportsman classes and that is fact, so revenue from that has fallen off drastically also, but, this is not an economic condition as far as the economy is concerned, this has been going on for years....the surprising thing is car counts in stock has remained the same or is UP a couple points on average so far this year at national events.....

Is there a fix for all this?...I believe so but it isn't easy or quick....I ran several deals as "open book" so that everyone knew what was going on and where we stood, unfortunately I don't think NHRA would EVER do that because I think it would open them up for scrutiny on the "NON-PROFIT" aspect of the organization and that would make some individuals sweat a little.....

04-13-2009, 09:50 PM	#6
magnumv8 Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Coraopolis, Pa. Posts: 172 Likes: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Send Letters to NHRA I have been trying to get a handle on this and have a few comments....does anyone remember a number of years ago when NHRA had a membership drive to try and get the membership up to 100,000?....never made it.....now NHRA has had a few devastating events occur within a relatively short time (I realize they aren't the only ones,but they are the biggest)...anyone out there that owns their own business with employees knows what a high cost insurance alone can cost and with several tragic losses over the last few years I would be willing to bet that the insurance cost for NHRA went through the roof, so now to continue to operate they must pay it....now add the economic sucker punch which hit everyone with a major deal and took more dollars from the coffers of the "non-profit".I think they tried to plan ahead for a rainy day with the membership drive but got hit with the "40 days and 40 nights" and are close to drowning....so now we get hit with a knee jerk reaction to generate some "quick cash" where else can they get it and get it quick....remember the $100,000,000 deal that fell through that they were all excited about giving them the cash to do all the things that they wanted to do?.....(you would think someone would lose their job over losing THAT one)....good or bad we will never know what would have come of that.... As a member of an organization I look at the good things that they provide knowing that there are bad things that are hard to ignore, but I still feel the need to support and promote them...if every member out there would make an attempt (in theory) to "drum up members" it would only take a 15% success rate to reach 100,000 members.... Car counts have been dropping over the last decade in sportsman classes and that is fact, so revenue from that has fallen off drastically also, but, this is not an economic condition as far as the economy is concerned, this has been going on for years....the surprising thing is car counts in stock has remained the same or is UP a couple points on average so far this year at national events..... Is there a fix for all this?...I believe so but it isn't easy or quick....I ran several deals as "open book" so that everyone knew what was going on and where we stood, unfortunately I don't think NHRA would EVER do that because I think it would open them up for scrutiny on the "NON-PROFIT" aspect of the organization and that would make some individuals sweat a little.....