nitro shortage

[charlie westcott]

“I thoroughly enjoy the sport of drag racing and I’m heavily vested in it, I would certainly hate to see it fall on tough times,” Schumacher said. “That’s the responsibility of NHRA and VP to handle the situation as it is currently in place. Until they invite another distributor to come in and sell nitromethane, they face the possibility if VP Race Fuels runs out of nitromethane, the sport will be out. At this point, they are the only distributor to my knowledge. I’m not exactly sure how to define VP’s role since the NHRA’s rulebook states that the legal suppliers of nitromethane are Dow-Angus and Wego chemical.”


there is a long article on comp plus
http://www.competitionplus.com/index...6534&Itemid=24

but the last paragraph sums it up, actually the last sentence. sounds like they need to read their rules again.

cw

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[John Kelley]

Originally Posted by Steve Polhill

Like Schumacher is doing to VP and NHRA..

Just what obligation have to sell his stock of nitro to VP ??
NHRA SOLD "OFFICAL SUPPLIER" of Nitro to VP and the prices immediately shot up !!!
Then NHRA fined Schumacher $100,000 at Vegas for picking up some nitro he had stored there for testing !!
I don't see where Schumacher has any obligation to provide VP with any product just because VP was short sighted.

[Chad Rhodes]

Originally Posted by Steve Polhill

First off VP wasn't short sighted. VP keeps enough Nitro In stock to last Several Months for the entire NHRA Top fuel and funny car fields.. Do you seriously think the need or can afford to keep a couple years supply in stock?? Secondly if you read the article Schumacher is most of the reason there is a shortage to begin with.. And I'm not saying that he has any obligation to sell his Nitro.. But right now he's
playing like a spoiled kid.. Holding the nitro out infront of NHRA like a carrot.. As far as I'm concerned The NHRA has given a great deal to the Schumachers and vise versa.. Now with that said I do agree the the $100,000 fine was WAY out of line..

i would imagine without that $100k fine, Mr. Schumacher would be much more willing to deal

[Gary Smith]

Typical corporate posturing. They're a bunch of cartels. Some have guns, some have lots of money, or both. What'll make this fun is seeing who gets kneecapped first, and who goes down - Schumacher, NHRA, VP, or all the above.

[Jason Oldfield]

Originally Posted by Gary Smith

Typical corporate posturing. They're a bunch of cartels. Some have guns, some have lots of money, or both. What'll make this fun is seeing who gets kneecapped first, and who goes down - Schumacher, NHRA, VP, or all the above.

That's awesome! Kneecapped....Bwahahahahahaha....

My money is on VP getting kneecapped. They've already issued a press release retracting some of what was said in the CompetitionPlus article. I'm thinking the first specific person that gets it is Wade Gray from VP. But, I'm not sure of his position at VP, so obviously if he's high enough up the chain nothing will happen to him...

[Jim Bailey]

Steve, Unless you purchased around $50,000.00 worth of nitro to run your racing operation in the last year or so, I'd be very careful about making strong arm comments. YOU don't have all the facts my friend. There's a lot more to this than is being let out. It's all about making money. And once again the racers are the ones getting screwed. But, that's never happened before. Has it!?

[John Kelley]

Originally Posted by Steve Polhill

First off VP wasn't short sighted. VP keeps enough Nitro In stock to last Several Months for the entire NHRA Top fuel and funny car fields..

And they KNEW China was going to shut down for the olympics and didn't stock up ??? Sounds "short sighted" to me !

Secondly if you read the article Schumacher is most of the reason there is a shortage to begin with.. ut of line..

Just how is Schumacher responible for the nitro shortage ?? He has his own buisness dealing in nitro and his own customers !! And he is suppossed to help VP cover their own *** ??? hahahahaha......