What about the sportsman racer IHRA?

[Jason Oldfield]

Originally Posted by herbjr

Ok, I will chime in here as a track operator and a racer. There is almost no insurance that will pay for you to be air lifited out of a track. My mom had it done in a car wreck and her insurance wouldnt pay it and it was VERY EXPENSIVE. That 40.00 goes into an acct that pays for the air transport helicopter to be at the track and incase a racers needs to be air lifted out its there and its paid for the way it was explained to me as a track operator. When my mom rode in one for 12 minutes to Duke Hospitol it was $16000. Just think about that, I will pay the 40.00 if it means the air support is there.

Herb Jr

And how often is it that a sportsman racer is transported from the track to the hospital via helicopter? At any one NHRA national event, you will have AT LEAST 300 sportsman racers. 300 x $40 = $12,000. So, in ONE RACE, you just about pay for the cost of that helicopter ride. After 2 races, you're up $8,000. In an entire 24 race season, you take in $288,000 from JUST the sportsman racers.

There's NO WAY that the sportsman racers use up $288,000 worth of ambulance and helicopter rides from national events to the hospital in a year. I have no numbers to back this up, but I would bet there probably wasn't more than 10 total trips to the hospital this year by sportsman racers from national events.

An even better question is, why do drivers that enter two cars have to pay the insurance premium twice??? I doubt they can seriously injure themselves twice in one weekend (granted, their chance of seriously injuring themselves does probably double, though unlikely as that may be).

And I'm not trying to downplay the cost of medical care because I do realize it is expensive. I just don't think it is anywhere near as expensive as what we're being charged for.