[Greg Hill]

Matt, it’s easy to see where your perspective comes from. Your signature says it all. What’s best for the few top fuel and funny car teams is not what’s best for the sportsman racers or drag racing in general. What’s the plan to grow drag racing? How is that being communicated? Why are sportsman racers excluded from policy discussions. Management at nhra has no one to hold them accountable. They appoint the board members and the board sets the salaries for management. The board decides on their own pay.

The whole business model is corrupt. No accountability and no consequences for doing things that benefit themselves or a small group or an individual. I’m not saying nhra hasn’t done a lot of good things over the years. The junior dragster program has been very successful and a bunch of youngsters are now adults with nhra race cars,but in the last 10 or 15 years the management has been unwilling to make changes to the sport to benefit most of their members. Purses are the same they were in 1990, and contingency money is a third of what is was then. When nhra received their charter and non profit status, their mission was clear; Safety, growing the sport and regulating drag racing, ie making the rules and regulations.

One last thing. Their job (management), is not just to keep nhra from going out of business but to do what’s in the best interests of members and drag racing in general. I would say that the best interests of the nhra members is what the management should be concerned with. Also the salaries of the top folks are still way too high when nhra has fired or cut back so many lower level people. They are way too top heavy.