[Stirk18]

Myron, other then your thoughts on my view point being too one sided, I agree with what your saying in regards to what IHRA has done, what NHRA has taken from them and to an extent what IHRA still has to offer racers.

To expand on my thoughts alittle I feel there are 5 slices (choices ) to the Class racing Pie, 1) NHRA Nat Circuit 2)NHRA Divisional circuit 3) IHRA Circuit 4) Local Class Racing Associations 5)Bracket Racing and or parked/not racing

Somewhere in there IHRA has lost a chunk of their slice to one or more of the other slices and they need to find a way to re-engage them. An example would be a few weeks ago, Grand Bend hosted their IHRA-less Mopar Nationals. They brought in the Can-Am Stock Super Stock series which had roughly 30 cars running in it in two races in two days (Average race attendance I believe is 38 cars for them normally)

Fast forward to Empire this past weekend there were 34-35 cars combined between Stock and Super Stock. Of the 34-35 only 8 were regular Can-Am S/SS racers.

What I take from this is that IHRA lost a percentage of their pie slice to the Local S/SS option because racers felt it was the better choice to make in their racing/scheduling plan. I feel its safe to say 10 years ago many of those racers would have circled the Empire event as a must attend, just like Grand Bend, TMP, US 131, Rockingham and Norwalk would have been. and they would have filled in the calendar with S/SS combo dates.... Now (around here it seems atleast) its the opposite.

"If you know what they can do better, offer your ideas. It's easy to find fault. But it's useless criticism if you don't have a better idea."

Here is my overall better idea, Stop trying to be everything to everyone, put a 3 year plan together and stick with it and find some consistency within the organization starting with the CEO/President.

No one is going to board your ship if they they think its going to be the next Titanic...

Andrew