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Racing is expensive and at some point each time costs go up there are those who no longer will or can participate. If you keep making it cost more and more the number of participants drop so low the sport possibly can't sustain itself.
If you wanted it to be like a country club atmoshpere your wish is almost there already. Soon it will be like the Pebble Beach car show deal....with wine and cheese served to the millionares club as they primp around and talk about how much they spent on their Stockers and Super Stockers and various other cars.....LOL Hopefully my local tracks stay open so I can have a little fun racing with friends.....
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The sad part is the sportsman racer gets almost no benifit from the extra insurance sur charge. Its purpose is to cover NHRA's expense to be able to run the Track Oilers (IE: Top Fool and Fuel Ha Ha cars) Enjoy the 1000 ft circus show for your extra insurance costs and the increased purse payouts...... and track time.....NOT.....LOL.
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Now I could be wrong about this, the way I understand the insurance we're paying for is it is only going to be used after all other insurances have been exhausted. So we're paying for something that 99% of us would never use. I agree insurance is expensive, my employer pays more he passes some of that cost onto me, and unless he raises his prices the added cost cuts into his profits. My first question would be exactly WHO are we insuring with these "premiums" we're paying....Just the Sportsman racers, the pros, the spectators? One thing that does bug me a bit is 500 racers can go to Norwalk on a Sat. nite and each pays $35 to race for $1000 no insurance surcharge. Hows that happen, do the Baders get some super low rate? Still seems to me NHRA is just trying to get it's Sportsmen racers to pay the cost of THEM doing business. Joe
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Since NHRA has bean counters to count every penny, I'm sure they could do a cost spreadsheet and see exactly where the major insurance claims come from. Insurance companies charges vs risk. Make the catalogies that cost the most pay the most and leave the sportsman racers alone.
Years ago I race nothing but IHRA. Had a great time. Might be my plan to run combo's and a few IHRA meets. |
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You're paying for fueler tires that might end up in the grandstands.
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How much will Indy be as it usually costs more??
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On the first half of questions, you would have to direct those to IHRA. For footbrake events, Jim Young actually makes a physical calendar specifically for Footbrake races (and he's done one for Northeast Sportsman Racing this year as well) The biggies are the World Footbrake Challenge (Bristol), the Jim Harrington Footbrake Classic (Cecil County), and the Fall Footbrake Frenzy (Coastal Plains). Info on those and many others are typically available either in the Bracket Events forum on ClassRacer, or on DragRaceResults.com I'll probably have my schedule up on my race team site in the next month or two. You can follow me around the eastern half of the country if you want! It'll be fun. ![]()
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The extra charge is to help pay the insurance coverage NHRA has to have to run the Fuel Cars which in turn draws in the spectators.. Take away the Fuel cars and there would be no extra sur charge and a lot less spectators. The cost for insurance gets crazy when fuel cars are involved and especially so after the accidents in 2010. The extra money you are paying is like the Govt. subsidizing low income housing.
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