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Quote from Jeff Burk at Drag Racing online: Just Wondering… Since both Rockingham Dragway owner/operator Steve Earwood and professional bracket racer Jok Nicholson have come over to the Burkster’s point of view, agreeing that it has simply become too expensive to prep all tracks to NHRA national event levels, and since traction compound is approaching $1,000 a barrel, will local promoters and the NHRA cut the cost of labor and material to prep their tracks in 2012? The answer is absolutely! They won’t publicly say so, but cutting operating costs is going to be the number-one project of all track operators and sanctioning bodies for the foreseeable future. All racers had better start remembering how they used to get their cars down tracks that weren’t super-glued from the starting line to the finish line.