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FED 387 · 09-12-2014, 01:57 PM

Interesting reading. I think he answered some of the questions in a sort of " what the reader wants to hear" way and maybe not what is really happening by painting kind of a rosy picture of Drag Racing. The interviewer and Tom never really approached the subject of purses or ways to either control or lower the racers expenses nor was the subject of increasing purses brought up. They also missed talking about ways to increase racer participation regardless the of level.
I feel NHRA needs to get more "THE OFFICIAL BATH SOAP or THE OFFICIAL MOBILE PHONE CO " for instance sponsors putting up money to be recognized as the official (insert product here) of NHRA-- Nascar has many times more companies involved at this level than NHRA has probably 50 -60 OFFICIAL PARTNERS --- these companies inject HUGE sums of MONEY into Nascar . Since Nascar is privately owned by the France family we will not have any way of ever knowing how much money is involved but it's probably in the many MILLIONS !!! of dollars range. These Official partners must be satisfied with their results as many of them renew their advertising agreements .
As I said interesting reading the interview from 2000 to compare the comments between 2000 and 2014. ---FED 387

09-12-2014, 01:57 PM	#2
FED 387 VIP Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 3,416 Likes: 522 Liked 330 Times in 178 Posts	Re: Tom Compton Interview on DRO Interesting reading. I think he answered some of the questions in a sort of " what the reader wants to hear" way and maybe not what is really happening by painting kind of a rosy picture of Drag Racing. The interviewer and Tom never really approached the subject of purses or ways to either control or lower the racers expenses nor was the subject of increasing purses brought up. They also missed talking about ways to increase racer participation regardless the of level. I feel NHRA needs to get more "THE OFFICIAL BATH SOAP or THE OFFICIAL MOBILE PHONE CO " for instance sponsors putting up money to be recognized as the official (insert product here) of NHRA-- Nascar has many times more companies involved at this level than NHRA has probably 50 -60 OFFICIAL PARTNERS --- these companies inject HUGE sums of MONEY into Nascar . Since Nascar is privately owned by the France family we will not have any way of ever knowing how much money is involved but it's probably in the many MILLIONS !!! of dollars range. These Official partners must be satisfied with their results as many of them renew their advertising agreements . As I said interesting reading the interview from 2000 to compare the comments between 2000 and 2014. ---FED 387 Last edited by FED 387; 09-12-2014 at 02:04 PM.