$305.00 Nat. event entry

[Joe Pinkston]

Originally Posted by Jim Wahl

The funny thing about this whole thing is that NHRA is self-insured! All that premium money goes directly to them. Jim

Someone told me that in the legal fine print of how this NHRA insurance works is if you as a racer gets injured and have your own personal health insurance that might cover all or some of your expences, the NHRA insurance only kicks in after your personal insurance limits are met. Is this true?

I understand that the NHRA officials that work the LODRS races (excluding the division director) all took a cut in pay for their time spent working the division races. The guys that work tech and the ladies working the registration trailer here in Div 2 are some of the most wonderful people you ever want to meet. They continue to do what they do for the love of the sport I'm sure.

The recent fee increases might be easier to take if the racers heard that those higher up have taken a cut in pay to help out during these hard economic times, but thats not happening. Just this last week we got the announcment of 2 new members being added to the board of directors in Glendora, probably with a couple of hundred grand a year salary each.

Merry Christmas everyone!




Hey Dan Moore, you're #1. (Merry Christmas to you too)

RIP Mark Graham

[tpoh815]

[QUOTE=Joe Pinkston;228805]Someone told me that in the legal fine print of how this NHRA insurance works is if you as a racer gets injured and have your own personal health insurance that might cover all or some of your expences, the NHRA insurance only kicks in after your personal insurance limits are met. Is this true?

Why not let me worry about my heath insurance. I pay into it every week. Besides the percentage of racers that do not have heath insurance has to be pretty small. If you even try to live a daily life without it (ins) and race, I say you have a priority problem. Impose your will
"O high and mighty" NHRA. I cant waste my money any quicker.

[Jason Oldfield]

This is essentially the same message that I posted over in the .90 forum:

I have an idea...how about Tom Compton takes a reduction in salary from $700,000/year to something a little more reasonable so that all of us sportsman racers don't have to take it in the *****? With 23 national events and assuming approximately 100 cars per class in S/S & Stk, you end up with about 5,000 total S/S & Stk. competitors at NHRA national events. If Tom Compton reduced his salary from $700,000 to a VERY HEALTHY $450,000, we could reduce the insurance surcharge by $50 per entry to $40.

Now, if we could get Mr. "I work 10 hours per week for NHRA" Dallas Gardner to reduce his yearly salary from $325,000 to $200,000, we could reduce the insurance surcharge another $25 per entry to $15. I know it might be a little much to ask a guy who only works 10 hours per week to reduce his yearly salary to a paltry $200,000 per year, but to me it seems that the circumstances may warrant the sacrifice.

Oh, and let's not forget Graham Light ($325,000), John Siragusa ($425,000), Peter Clifford ($375,000), Gary Darcy ($375,000), and Glen Gray ($300,000). Asking them to each take a $25,000/year reduction in salary would not only eliminate the remaining $15 of the insurance surcharge, but with the surplus we could actually reduce the entry fee by $10/each as well.

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I won't include the few other paupers on the above list as clearly they're just scraping by with their $225,000 - $250,000 annual salaries, and we couldn't possibly ask them to to reduce their compensation from a not-for-profit company.

My guess is that Mr. Compton is looking to buy himself a new Aston Martin V12 Vantage, and can't quite figure out how he can justify the purchase to his wife. So, raise the insurance surcharge $35 (about a 60% increase) and BINGO! Instant $175,000 from the S/S & Stk. racers to pay for the Vantage.

I can't believe all you guys who are just shrugging it off and saying, "Eh, who cares...it's only an extra $35 per entry, and that's a drop in the bucket compared to what I pay to race at one of these events." Though that may be true (it's only going to be about a 3.5% increase for the TOTAL cost to attend one of these events, assuming you're only bringing one car), what NHRA is doing is the 2011 version of nickel and dime-ing us to death. Where does it all end?

[Ed Fernandez]

Originally Posted by Jason Oldfield

This is essentially the same message that I posted over in the .90 forum:

I have an idea...how about Tom Compton takes a reduction in salary from $700,000/year to something a little more reasonable so that all of us sportsman racers don't have to take it in the *****? With 23 national events and assuming approximately 100 cars per class in S/S & Stk, you end up with about 5,000 total S/S & Stk. competitors at NHRA national events. If Tom Compton reduced his salary from $700,000 to a VERY HEALTHY $450,000, we could reduce the insurance surcharge by $50 per entry to $40.

Now, if we could get Mr. "I work 10 hours per week for NHRA" Dallas Gardner to reduce his yearly salary from $325,000 to $200,000, we could reduce the insurance surcharge another $25 per entry to $15. I know it might be a little much to ask a guy who only works 10 hours per week to reduce his yearly salary to a paltry $200,000 per year, but to me it seems that the circumstances may warrant the sacrifice.

Oh, and let's not forget Graham Light ($325,000), John Siragusa ($425,000), Peter Clifford ($375,000), Gary Darcy ($375,000), and Glen Gray ($300,000). Asking them to each take a $25,000/year reduction in salary would not only eliminate the remaining $15 of the insurance surcharge, but with the surplus we could actually reduce the entry fee by $10/each as well.

http://www.dragracingonline.com/anal...ge-4-Large.gif

I won't include the few other paupers on the above list as clearly they're just scraping by with their $225,000 - $250,000 annual salaries, and we couldn't possibly ask them to to reduce their compensation from a not-for-profit company.

My guess is that Mr. Compton is looking to buy himself a new Aston Martin V12 Vantage, and can't quite figure out how he can justify the purchase to his wife. So, raise the insurance surcharge $35 (about a 60% increase) and BINGO! Instant $175,000 from the S/S & Stk. racers to pay for the Vantage.

I can't believe all you guys who are just shrugging it off and saying, "Eh, who cares...it's only an extra $35 per entry, and that's a drop in the bucket compared to what I pay to race at one of these events." Though that may be true (it's only going to be about a 3.5% increase for the TOTAL cost to attend one of these events, assuming you're only bringing one car), what NHRA is doing is the 2011 version of nickel and dime-ing us to death. Where does it all end?

So Jason,have you emailed this to Uncle Tom?Did he respond?:>):>):>)

[Jason Oldfield]

Originally Posted by Ed Fernandez

So Jason,have you emailed this to Uncle Tom?Did he respond?:>):>):>)

I did, and surprisingly he didn't respond. And neither did Dallas Gardner, Graham Light, John Siragusa, Peter Clifford, Gary Darcy, or Glen Gray.

I can't imagine why....

[Bobby Fazio]

WOW. This is unbelievable.

Originally Posted by Jason Oldfield

This is essentially the same message that I posted over in the .90 forum:

I have an idea...how about Tom Compton takes a reduction in salary from $700,000/year to something a little more reasonable so that all of us sportsman racers don't have to take it in the *****? With 23 national events and assuming approximately 100 cars per class in S/S & Stk, you end up with about 5,000 total S/S & Stk. competitors at NHRA national events. If Tom Compton reduced his salary from $700,000 to a VERY HEALTHY $450,000, we could reduce the insurance surcharge by $50 per entry to $40.

Now, if we could get Mr. "I work 10 hours per week for NHRA" Dallas Gardner to reduce his yearly salary from $325,000 to $200,000, we could reduce the insurance surcharge another $25 per entry to $15. I know it might be a little much to ask a guy who only works 10 hours per week to reduce his yearly salary to a paltry $200,000 per year, but to me it seems that the circumstances may warrant the sacrifice.

Oh, and let's not forget Graham Light ($325,000), John Siragusa ($425,000), Peter Clifford ($375,000), Gary Darcy ($375,000), and Glen Gray ($300,000). Asking them to each take a $25,000/year reduction in salary would not only eliminate the remaining $15 of the insurance surcharge, but with the surplus we could actually reduce the entry fee by $10/each as well.

http://www.dragracingonline.com/anal...ge-4-Large.gif

I won't include the few other paupers on the above list as clearly they're just scraping by with their $225,000 - $250,000 annual salaries, and we couldn't possibly ask them to to reduce their compensation from a not-for-profit company.

My guess is that Mr. Compton is looking to buy himself a new Aston Martin V12 Vantage, and can't quite figure out how he can justify the purchase to his wife. So, raise the insurance surcharge $35 (about a 60% increase) and BINGO! Instant $175,000 from the S/S & Stk. racers to pay for the Vantage.

I can't believe all you guys who are just shrugging it off and saying, "Eh, who cares...it's only an extra $35 per entry, and that's a drop in the bucket compared to what I pay to race at one of these events." Though that may be true (it's only going to be about a 3.5% increase for the TOTAL cost to attend one of these events, assuming you're only bringing one car), what NHRA is doing is the 2011 version of nickel and dime-ing us to death. Where does it all end?