The end of class racing....again...

[goinbroke2]

Here's some posts from 2007;

They have given all our pit area to Motor Homes on both sides of the track, consession trailers, all sorts of tents, passenger cars, golf carts, Pro Mods with lots of room for each, and Alcohol Funny Cars with lots of room for each. There's just not any pit space left for us and the track just won't spend any money to make more.

Now I'm sitting at home with no transportation and my truck, trailer, race car sitting in an old rice field with 6" of water all around and piles of dirt in front of the truck and no telling when I'll be able to get it out, at least I'm not hundreds of miles from home like some.

Nhra took a day of racing away this year and charged us more money to get in and some wonder why the car count is down? I believe it maybe even less in the future.
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They wonder why racers are quitting, after more than 30 years of racing, it just was not fun anymore, miss the racers, don't miss NHRA.....
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NHRA= NOT HELPING RACERS ANYMORE
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NHRA needs to stop the insanity. How did we ever let it get this far? The only thing we S/SS have ever stuck together on was the mufflers and a lot of you didn?t want to sign the petition back then, but Dan and I with a hand full kept pushing the issue. A great division 3 tech man told me it was a done deal, but we did defeat them on that issue, the tech man remained neutral on the issue.
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"Just curious with all these problems with the mistreatment of sportsman racer's at NHRA national events why not just stop racing at them and try racing IHRA instead where stuff like this never happens."

when I can run at least 5 IHRA races within a 8 hr drive then I will consider it
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2 minute search and I can find the EXACT same "the sky is falling" threads from 2007 or farther since this has been going on since what 1972???

When smog stuff hit everyone said "8 to 1 compression, racing is done"
Then FI "racing is done"
Then imports and the exploding fwd's "these are the new muscle replacing the dinosaurs"
Then gas went to $6 per gallon "that's it, racing is done for now"
Then the "RPM Act" "it's all over now"

So what is "todays" reason for the end of racing??
Just curious as I don't have a crisis to panic about today, lol......

I see it as getting better. Perhaps it is just locally, but our local S/SS association went from about 16 cars when I tech'd in 2008 to about 40+ cars now (Thanks Jeff Kempton) and we have a series with real money thanks to John Scotti. We lost one track (PEI) but gained a new one. (Cape Breton)

I view drag racing in general and S/SS in particular as Henry Ford said "if you think you can or if you think you can't...you're right" In other words, I won't be joining the "woe is me" crowd.

So, any GOOD stories about racing to talk about???