[Eric Merryfield]

As the ultra rare 1st generation racer I don't have a problem with the changes. If I can attend national events, the one less extra day can be a godsend, and might allow more testing, etc, work, anything, and I mean anything is better than having to push it to get to a event, to be put in a field to await parking, then go wait in line for tech.

The ETI's and hardcards have permitted me to attend some events over the last two years that I would have punted on in the past. I roll in when I can.

The horrendous "UPGRADE" of the online credentials, was a fiasco of the highest order. Fill out everthing and then wait to get a follow up email to print? Really, thats just unacceptable.

With the reduction of costs ie less overhead to run the events, I expect to see the purses increased. What incentive do I have to put myself through the aggravation of national events?

Divisonals, national opens, club racing(allstars etc), even figuring out how to run IHRA enough times to compete, all seem like a better time and experience than some national events.

I play enough to have the grade points to go to any race I want, but the National event chaos is pretty tough to stomach.

Just the musing of what possibly could have been the NHRA's growth demographic......SCCA, stock car, vintage, they are all other forms that compete for the first generations of anything.

Eric