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[GarysZ24]

Originally Posted by Ed Wright

And the way so many of you slam NHRA and it's management (and don't be dumb enough to think nobody there reads this), who in their right mind would expect them to have the software modified to make you happy. Especialy since the majority wants it left alone. Somebody here lives in a fantasy world. It just won't happen. Get over it, build a faster car, go fishing, do something else.

I hope they do read this, because with all of the enhancements they've done (and they claim to care about us sportsman racers), I'll continue to do it because they've given me many reasons to do so over the years/decades:

1. Dropping Modified Eliminator and adding Super Comp/Super Gas, and Super Street...I liked those B/SM's & C/SM's.

2. Dropping many of the FWD classes and blending the FI cars into regular stock classes...I've read how many carb racers loved the arrival of the CJ's & the DP's!

3. Raising the entry fees for national events from $240 in '08 to $305 today...not all of us have the income to embrace such "enhanced" expenses.

4. Contingency postings continously dropping, but regulations (read tranny) contingencies increasing.

5. Making single class runners compete with each other in a no-breakout handicapped elimination format...(just like the last election, money will win most battles), and now only one person will get a wally & class contingency money.

6. Got to love there dropping our indexes .30sec.! How many more traditional class racers who once qualified .10-.30 under the old indexes are now non-competitive.

7. What happened to Inside Drag Racing (and there former coverage of sportsman drag racing)? They can't tell me that they don't offer input to ESPN with regards to what they show on tv, because I'm certain they have some influence...our tv coverage sucks compared to what it used to be like in the previous two decades....we pay the bills, we should get some better tv coverage too!!!

8. They were so happy to copy the NFL's mindset about a playoff system (with regards to the pro categories), why wouldn't they also copy the NFL and their restructuring of their divisional layout and/or create 1-2 new divisions (also like the NFL did). I'm sure the Atlanta Falcons are much happier to now have geographically friendly divisional opponents, than to have to travel from Georgia to California for divisional games when they would literally fly over Dallas (when they had to play the former L.A. Rams---now in St. Louis). Just taking a snap shot of the country and seeing how the divisional layout is would answer why a few divisions need to be shrunk, to be the equal of the other divisions where travel isn't so dramatic...and don't give me the horse ***** about moving to those divisions that have races closer to home, because that's not how the NFL handled that thought!

9. Now as if sportsman racers didn't have enough with the Super Class Racers (to deal with), we have to share pit space (at divisionals & a few national events) with Top Sportsman & Top Dragsters, plus Pro Mod's and Junior Dragsters...dare I ask what's next?

10. We pay most of the cost of racing in this sanctioning body, yet we get our races passed over at the request of the pros...what's wrong with that???

[Ed Wright]

Gary, I can't argue with anything you said. I still like drag racing better than anything else I have ever done. I'll keep it up as long as I can. But I don't expect them to change anything for me. If it gets to where I can't afford to, or any rule changes bother me enough (like diapers) I'll simply quit. I've not found anything else I enjoy as much.

[GarysZ24]

Originally Posted by Ed Wright

Gary, I can't argue with anything you said. I still like drag racing better than anything else I have ever done. I'll keep it up as long as I can. But I don't expect them to change anything for me. If it gets to where I can't afford to, or any rule changes bother me enough (like diapers) I'll simply quit. I've not found anything else I enjoy as much.

Ed, I've been harboring thoughts of doing so myself (for recent years), because I realize that the money (albeit limited in previous years), that I've spent on racing, I could be cruizing (and occasionally bracket racing) in one of those cool new Challengers. However, I haven't lost the passion for racing yet (plus I still love the LEGAL competition). I know that with the money I spend on fueling my truck, the races I'd travel to, the car & trailer, I could afford one of those cars...then I'd have MY BAD ***** MOPAR!!! I just can't get that urge to compete out of my system yet, and I don't see it happening in the forseeable future either...Even Ed F. can relate to that I bet....

I can't help but take this opportunity to thank Bunkster, Sean K., Bill D., Toby L., Mark Y., Bobby, and Casey (from the Revised Survey), for their apparent siding with me on the nucleas of this thread (it was closed, thus not allowing me to thank them there), however I'm ready to talk racing, and btw Mr. Ed (Fernandez that is), 3wks from today (THE LORD WILLING?), I'll be back in D5 country to retrieve my Z24 to bring it back here to D7 country, now that S.I.R. has gone IHRA, and in lieu of Glendora's enhancements to our racing future, Norwalk is giving us some new venues to spread our racing dollars around, and thus I feel better about being here in Sun country, than I have since '08!