New NHRA President!

[Alan Roehrich]

Originally Posted by Julie Jordan

When Compton took over NHRA had just lost the Winston sponsorship. In just a short time he had procured a series sponsor. According to the financial reports of the organization the financial position has greatly improved during his tenure. There is no way anyone will please all the racers or fans, drag racing has so many facets to it. But, as far as steering the organization through serious financial challenges he has done a good job.

I can appreciate what you are saying, to some degree.

However, if you take a "non profit" organization and turn most every decision purely toward making a profit, at what ever cost you deem necessary to due paying members of that organization, and further remove those dues paying members from the decision making process, you can improve the financial position of that "non profit" organization.

It would be far more impressive if he had improved the financial position of the organization without doing it on the backs of and at a cost to the individual dues paying members that are the back bone of the sport.

Not to mention the fact that due to the financial decisions of NHRA, the sport is very unhealthy now. Car counts are down all over, almost without exception, and it is not at all uncommon to see one or more of the pro categories unable to fill a 16 car field at a national event. It is also not at all uncommon to see very successful championship winning racers completely unable to secure necessary sponsorship to compete.

There are a lot of organizations that look good financially, on paper, but are not really doing well at all.