Sportsman Racers Council?

[Billy Nees]

Art, you've got to calm down a little bit. Believe me, I can feel your pain but there isn't anything that we can do about it but stay home.
Might I suggest that you take my stance on all of the recent "enhancements"? For over 25 years I've followed the NHRA program running as many as 8 Divisional and 5 or 6 National events per year and (in my old age) I've finally come to the conclusion that they (NHRA) don't care. I've gone from a mindset of feeling as if I "had" to go to these races to feeling that I'll go if I "want" to.
I still have friends that work for NHRA, the Division office, the racetracks and all of my racer friends and I now go to see them. Don't get me wrong, if I am going racing I intend on winning but I just don't feel the urgency to go anymore. Maybe it's old age, maybe I've been around too long.
I told an NHRA official years ago " Show me your rules, I'll race by your rules, YOU remember your rules!". I also told him "if NHRA decided tommorrow that from now on we will all race wheelbarrows full of rocks then I'll be there racing a wheelbarrow full of rocks". I'll just race that wheelbarrow because I feel like I want to not because I feel like I have to.