[Bruce Noland]

Many precedents don't turn out so well. In the real world the precedent you reference here would be quickly reversed.

Also, you left out a very important point. Pay to Play. That is what nhra and the OEMs have been up to for a very long time. We all have a better understanding of this corrupt process because of this site. Even ten years ago the racers did not have this valuable asset to get together and figure out what is actually going on here. Remember the muffler deal. The Internet sites helped to prevent that deal from going down. And the Internet sites helped move the GM cars into injected classes. So we are moving in the right direction now. It will soon become the norm around racing that a sanctioning body will not be allowed to "feed" off of it's membership. Even though at least one sanctioning body claims to have no members.

Yes, it's easy to look back now and see that nhra made, what I consider, underhanded deals. And just because they got away with this behavior in the past does not mean that they should get away with it today. Times have changed and nhra will have to change it's practices as well.

Why do the new crate motor cars have to run in regular Stock classes? How is anybody injured by placing them in injected classes? Injected classes made a lot of sense before - why not now?