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FED 387 · 10-02-2014, 11:55 AM

NASCAR did a similar thing with their program several years ago-- They said as of a certain date ALL cars will have fuel injection-engines will run on ETHANOL- compression ratios will be lowered etc.- the bodies will more closely resemble their showroom counter parts and be current year production bodies. etc etc----- they gave them a 2-3 year notice so that they could "get ready" & be totally compliant . NHRA has not done anything or very little like that or anything close to that . Nascar teams spend TENS of MILLIONS of dollars to field ONE car/team for a season. The only NHRA teams that approach such massive expenditures like that might be John Force's cars or Tony Schumacher's cars and I'm willing to bet they might be spending only a very small fraction of money for ALL of their cars compared to what a Nascar team spends to field ONE car like $3-5 Million per car per season vs. $20-30 million per car for a Nascar season maybe even more..
Even the best funded NHRA cars/teams cannot begin to compare expenses to what ONE Nascar car/team spends to run for a total season.
NHRA is going to have to make major changes to increase any future factory participitation as well as racers participitation plus keep fan interest in the PRO STOCK category- Some of those changes might be Ethanol vs Gasoline-Fuel injection vs Carb-maybe turbo charged vs non turbo - different body styles to include many manufacturers( domestic/import)-race engines based on current production engine platforms--all things that are based on CURRENT ENGINE TECHNOLOGY & the list goes on--the clock is running and now is the time to implement many of these changes

10-02-2014, 11:55 AM	#46
FED 387 VIP Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 3,422 Likes: 529 Liked 333 Times in 180 Posts	Re: Larry Morgan quitting Pro Stock NASCAR did a similar thing with their program several years ago-- They said as of a certain date ALL cars will have fuel injection-engines will run on ETHANOL- compression ratios will be lowered etc.- the bodies will more closely resemble their showroom counter parts and be current year production bodies. etc etc----- they gave them a 2-3 year notice so that they could "get ready" & be totally compliant . NHRA has not done anything or very little like that or anything close to that . Nascar teams spend TENS of MILLIONS of dollars to field ONE car/team for a season. The only NHRA teams that approach such massive expenditures like that might be John Force's cars or Tony Schumacher's cars and I'm willing to bet they might be spending only a very small fraction of money for ALL of their cars compared to what a Nascar team spends to field ONE car like $3-5 Million per car per season vs. $20-30 million per car for a Nascar season maybe even more.. Even the best funded NHRA cars/teams cannot begin to compare expenses to what ONE Nascar car/team spends to run for a total season. NHRA is going to have to make major changes to increase any future factory participitation as well as racers participitation plus keep fan interest in the PRO STOCK category- Some of those changes might be Ethanol vs Gasoline-Fuel injection vs Carb-maybe turbo charged vs non turbo - different body styles to include many manufacturers( domestic/import)-race engines based on current production engine platforms--all things that are based on CURRENT ENGINE TECHNOLOGY & the list goes on--the clock is running and now is the time to implement many of these changes Last edited by FED 387; 10-02-2014 at 11:57 AM. Reason: inserted words "anyting like that"