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[Goose6891]

I don't race a Stocker or Super Stocker, but I've been Bracket racing for 10 years now so I think I'm permitted an opinion on this... Yeah, I don't have the entry fees like you guys, nor the tow bills, but my family supports me and we try and have a good time racing here in the Northwest just the same despite having a special needs child that now is in the early stages of kidney failure. The car counts have been going down for a while now, especially last year. And now with the economy in the tank it's a real dumb move to say the least. The only thing that I guess I can bitch about is WHY THE HELL THE COMP # FEES DOUBLED? The only reason we bracket racers "need" one is for the ET Finals event at the end of the year.... Yeah, $80/2 years just so I can allowed the apparent privelge of racing at the Finals? All for just hitting the "renew" button or whatever the admin in Glendora does to keep it assigned to me? THAT is crap! The 'white house' in Glendora gets rid of the oil down penalties so I guess they had to recoup that money AND THEN SOME from us. A bunch of you have made a point of how the Sportsman racer is supporting the Pros. Well, throw in us bracket guys and that's a LOT of money from the customers that will be affected the most by it. Thousands of members with a least one number, let alone my fellow racers that are Stockers, the Index classes...

Thank you Dan Fletcher. It's a privilege to see someone as yourself stand up for a principle. To those making excuses for the raises: do I still have a job and can afford the doubling? Yeah, but that's NOT the point. It, along with some other increases were way out of line and when will it stop?

Sincerely,
Jerry Gossette
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/768944
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[Ed Fernandez]

$1000.00 membership to NHRA to be a posting Contingency Sponsor. $4500.00 in guaranteed payouts to be made, if less than that is paid to racers the balance goes to NHRA. (This is why most Contingency Sponsors decided to take a hike this year.)

These guys can teach the Mafia a few tricks.

[Ron Ortiz]

Chevy620,

The $4500. is that for the year or per National Event. And what about class payout, could you elaborate on that. Thank You.

Ron Ortiz
U/SA

[Jim Cimarolli]

Once your hooked it's over ,you will race till your dead or broke

Well, I guess then I ain't hooked, just broke.

[Jim Hanig]

Jim and all a long i thought you where gone, glad to see your still kicking. Jim Hanig

[magnumv8]

I have been trying to get a handle on this and have a few comments....does anyone remember a number of years ago when NHRA had a membership drive to try and get the membership up to 100,000?....never made it.....now NHRA has had a few devastating events occur within a relatively short time (I realize they aren't the only ones,but they are the biggest)...anyone out there that owns their own business with employees knows what a high cost insurance alone can cost and with several tragic losses over the last few years I would be willing to bet that the insurance cost for NHRA went through the roof, so now to continue to operate they must pay it....now add the economic sucker punch which hit everyone with a major deal and took more dollars from the coffers of the "non-profit".I think they tried to plan ahead for a rainy day with the membership drive but got hit with the "40 days and 40 nights" and are close to drowning....so now we get hit with a knee jerk reaction to generate some "quick cash" where else can they get it and get it quick....remember the $100,000,000 deal that fell through that they were all excited about giving them the cash to do all the things that they wanted to do?.....(you would think someone would lose their job over losing THAT one)....good or bad we will never know what would have come of that....

As a member of an organization I look at the good things that they provide knowing that there are bad things that are hard to ignore, but I still feel the need to support and promote them...if every member out there would make an attempt (in theory) to "drum up members" it would only take a 15% success rate to reach 100,000 members....

Car counts have been dropping over the last decade in sportsman classes and that is fact, so revenue from that has fallen off drastically also, but, this is not an economic condition as far as the economy is concerned, this has been going on for years....the surprising thing is car counts in stock has remained the same or is UP a couple points on average so far this year at national events.....

Is there a fix for all this?...I believe so but it isn't easy or quick....I ran several deals as "open book" so that everyone knew what was going on and where we stood, unfortunately I don't think NHRA would EVER do that because I think it would open them up for scrutiny on the "NON-PROFIT" aspect of the organization and that would make some individuals sweat a little.....

[Jim Wahl]

NHRA is self-insured! Jim