NHRA regulates off track behavior.........

[Jeff Stout]

Originally Posted by SSGT Mustang

Here's something for the folks having trouble understanding the issue.

From the first sentence in the "About" statement on the NHRA website. I quote: "When Wally Parks founded the NHRA in 1951, he worked to get racing off the city streets and highways and into safer, organized venues."

Again, that's the first sentence.

So.

1. NHRA is a club founded for a reason.
2. The club has rules.
3. As a member of the club, you are required to follow the rules.
4. Break the rules, lose your membership.

It really is that simple.

You can rant all you want about how stupid, evil, money grubbing, whatever, the NHRA is, but in this case the only thing that they've done is act responsibly. Like a parent to a child. They have enforced an important rule, regardless of what anyone thinks.

But, it's not just a rule. It is the basis of their Mission Statement.

Do some of you honestly expect NHRA to come out and say that Wally Parks had it all wrong, and street racing is actually the right thing to do?

No. They took a stand against something that is not only illegal, but totally contrary to their guiding principles.

In this day and age where anything goes, where there are no rules or boundaries left to be bent or broken, NHRA did the right thing.

They deserve credit not scorn.

I agree with what your saying here. But why did they start and stop with letters to the SO participants? The letter your quoted with the first line from Wally Parks is only part of the rule. What about section 1, 2, 3 in regards to conduct? If you feel NHRA is going in the right direction then why stop with SO members? What about any NHRA license holder that has a DUI, Domestic Violence, rapist, child porn? Should NHRA right letters and threaten these folks? According to the rule and the way its written these people should receive letters also. You pick and chose the ones you want to punish. If your going by the letter of the rule then go by it not when it fits your cause.