After reading through that announcement (3-4 times?), clearly the focus of this transaction cherry-picks the best what NHRA had to offer: the PowerAid Series, broad licensing rights, merchandising rights, practically anything that had or will have entertainment value. Hell, HD Partners even got 20,000 hours of drag racing video, 4 race tracks, and the building in Glendora. I wonder if NHRA will be paying NHRA Pro Racing rent?
NHRA will still be the sanctioning body, so if NHRA Pro Racing wants to race top fuel garden tractors (for entertainment of course), will NHRA have to sanction it?
On the other hand, if the new NHRA can package sportsmen racing to the local tracks in a better format and support the tracks by employing more tech and safety people (with that $100M they received), then sportsmen racing will benefit. IMO, sportsman racing and the local tracks is what makes drag racing the sport it is, not the Power Aid series (circus?).
Sportsmen drag racing is made by the racers, not NHRA...
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