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bill7947 · 10-31-2011, 06:05 PM

I have been racing at NHRA events for over 20 years and I have watched NHRA transform from a sanctioning body that represented the racers (barely) into a sanctioning body thats main objective now is to compete with NASCAR for specator appeal. There was a driver from division 4, I forget his name, anyone remember? That wanted to organize all of the sportsman racers, so we would have some strength against NHRA. NHRA squashed that whole process and we ended up loosing our second crew passes that used to come free with National Event entries. I love the optimistic attitude that letter writing will fix everything that is wrong with NHRA, I just wish that it was accurate. I have been around long enough to see that changes will be made, when NHRA wants them to be made. Not before. If the sportsman racers go away, NHRA will just consolidate more classes, like they did to get rid of Modified Eliminator in the 80's. I hope you prove me wrong and the letter writing campaign is a huge success!

10-31-2011, 06:05 PM	#8
bill7947 Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 22 Likes: 11 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Help Fix What's Wrong With Our NHRA I have been racing at NHRA events for over 20 years and I have watched NHRA transform from a sanctioning body that represented the racers (barely) into a sanctioning body thats main objective now is to compete with NASCAR for specator appeal. There was a driver from division 4, I forget his name, anyone remember? That wanted to organize all of the sportsman racers, so we would have some strength against NHRA. NHRA squashed that whole process and we ended up loosing our second crew passes that used to come free with National Event entries. I love the optimistic attitude that letter writing will fix everything that is wrong with NHRA, I just wish that it was accurate. I have been around long enough to see that changes will be made, when NHRA wants them to be made. Not before. If the sportsman racers go away, NHRA will just consolidate more classes, like they did to get rid of Modified Eliminator in the 80's. I hope you prove me wrong and the letter writing campaign is a huge success!