Re: NHRA Please Read
Ed,
Why do you continue with your class warfare mentality. Do you really feel that NHRA owes you something. I don't care how much Tom Compton makes, or anybody else that works for NHRA. What give us the right to set the salary. Because we are members this give us the right to set the salary someone should make? Where is the contract we singed with NHRA giving us the right to cap someone's salary or fire them for not doing there job. You are member, like me, nothing more. The only thing we can do is voice our opinion or not support NHRA, and judging by your entry at e-town, you support NHRA.
You pay money to your cable company every month, probable for many years. If they double there price, what would you do? or better yet what could you do. Demand the CEO and his greedy executives step down, or find another cable company. You have supported your cable company for all these years, now they raise the price without asking you. I guess they owe you something huh.
Should government step in like they did with GM and have the CEO step down. Is that what everyone wants for NHRA. You want one man to dictate what someone should make?
Kandra, I feel bad that you have to travel so far to race, but should will also give racers that have old equipment new. Because some racers suffer hardships, we should then have the right to tell the NHRA how to run there, YES I SAID THERE organization. We are members and no where is it written that we have a say it what they do.
If one racer has a $250,000 operation, should we subsidize the racer that has only a 25,000 operation. Where do you draw the line for helping out a racer.
Its a tough deal when someone that loves drag racing is priced out because of higher fees or a tough economy. Racing is a luxury and it has evolved into a very expensive sport, especially when racing with NHRA. I had to sit out few years in the early nineties because I could not afford to go racing. I did not expect NHRA to lower the fees so I could race.
I respect the racers choice not to race with NHRA because of the latest fee increase, but I can not support the members of this forum who think they have a right to tell a company how to run there business. If NHRA has set the prices to high, then they will pay the ultimate price and fail, but the market should handle the correction not members who feel they have the right to tell NHRA how to be run.
I still do not understand how some can make the statements they are making without knowing what the financial status of NHRA is.
Don, I posted the price increase in a early post, but over charged myself. If I attend 6 nationals a year, have my car certified and renew my license, including an additional category, it will cost a extra $180.00 a year.
This is the break down on my yearly increased fees.
Insurance surcharge........ 6 races at $20.00 = $120.00
Certification...$75.00........divided by 3 years =$ 25.00
License........$25.00............................. .............=$ 25.00
Additional Category....$10.00..........................=$ 10.00
Total............................................. .......................=$180.00
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