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The problem has nothing to do with Class racing or Class racers. The issue is that the sanctioning organization does not see the value in S/SS or even PRO/SM racers. NHRA is focused on competing with NASCAR and producing a televised spectacle to draw viewership and sponsorship cash. If NHRA could put on a National event exclusively consisting of Nitro classes they would. The only reason Sportsman cars still run the Nationals is to fill time between rounds on the weekend. NASCAR has bumped the slower cars out to ARCA and the dirt tracks. A weekend of round racing consists of trucks on Friday, The Kids on Saturday and the Pros on Sunday. Each race pretty much looks like the other. Only the faces are different. NHRA is trying to match this with side by side 3 second races and it's not working out well. It's much more interest to watch Tanner Gray battle Haley Deegan in a Camping World truck than Tanner and Erica on the drag strip for 6 sec.



Wally Parks established the sport traveling the country showing people how to run a drag race. Maybe if NHRA put together a traveling film crew that produced edited shows from Sportsman tracks people would see the interest in the sport again and show up.


Sorry for running off like that...