My proposal to NHRA

[Ed Carpenter]

Originally Posted by Blackgar

Just asking, what would running class at divisionals do for the racer aside from torturing the cars. Currently the number of contingency sponsors has dropped to the lowest level that I have seen in 40 years of racing
Why not first ask nhra to cut the classes back to say 40. Run a/t & sticks together, put the modified cars in comp, & combine the factory cars in with Gt or s/s, then try to get sponsors to pay class again. Do I currently have a car that could win class, no, not by any streach. But if the classes were cut back I would bet a big number that want class would bail

For the sake of the class this is the direction we should be following, adding a class for every new car certainly hasn't worked

Like I said due to all the negativity (like you) I dropped it from my final proposal (I wasn't going to but ill post it on here). Like I have told many people feel free to write your own proposal to nhra. I'm actually trying to do something. Just like when I ran my SS/K shootout raising over 7000.00 for fellow racers for one class there was still.bitching.......

PS Graham Light email is glight@nhra.com
. Peter Clifford email pclifford@nhra.com
. Danny Gracia email dgracia@nhra.com
. Glen Gray email ggray@nhra.com

Write away!

[Blackgar]

Ed, not negative or bitchin. Just trying to make sense out of one class having 122 individual categories. No contingency sponsor could afford to pay this on a consistent basis.

Cudos to you on the points for record setting. I don't disagree with all of your proposal, just the class thing.

Ps we have presented the number of classes thing to NHRA