[Alan Roehrich]

NHRA already has 10 classes at LODRS races they do a terrible job of promoting, paying, and supporting. Now they want to add more.

I'll never understand why it is people think adding something "new" is going to change things.

I have no problem with anyone having a time and a place to race. But it can't be the same place and the same time for eveyone.

You cannot be everything to everybody. The further you dilute anything, the less desirable it becomes. The more things you put into a mix, the less attractive that mix becomes. If you have a great pot of soup, and a line of customers waiting to be seated, a sure way to ruin that is to water down the soup and add more ingredients. Because you're going to make the soup less delicious for more customers you already have, and you're not going to make it tasty enough to draw more customers to replace them, not that many people are excited about soup to begin with.

The vast majority of the time, adding a new "next great thing" in the motorsports world serves only to drive off part of the original hard core fan base and participants. Then when the "new" wears off, that huge group of fans they were hoping to draw, that half the time didn't even show up, is already off looking for that new "next big thing". And the old hardcore fans and participants are gone, most never to return. They get a short term boost that is never as big as predicted, followed by a big crash that leaves things worse off than they were. It then becomes a never ending circle of trying to find that "next great thing" to replace the last "next great thing" just to keep things afloat, until there's nothing left but an empty shell of what once was, that is in a constant struggle to survive.

It's been said over and over, time after time, they need to promote what they have, and take care of what they have. Two things they refuse to do.

A solid rule of business has always been "it costs up to ten time as much to draw a new customer as it does to keep a current customer". Another has always been "the best advertisement you can have is a happy customer". As long as NHRA, and maybe to a lesser extent IHRA, continue to ignore those two rules, things will continue to get worse.