ProStar Shootout observations.

[Doug Hoven]

Originally Posted by 1320racer

the NHRA payouts have been discussed ad nauseum here for years YET the quotas are always met, filled sometimes in minutes and you have racers posting here looking for an entry. Clearly class racers don't care about the payouts and the NHRA knows it!

All sorts of groups are able to organize thousands in a minutes using social media for flash mobs, looting, rioting, etc. If only the old guys that largely make up the NHRA LODRS class racers could do the same and sit out just ONE national event, the NHRA would shyt themselves. Instead you waste bandwidth here complaining and no one at the NHRA is listening no mind cares.

I can't help but agree with you here. I've had the same thought many times. If racers keep showing up no matter what, why change anything? Apart from the small payout, we are almost free income for the NHRA at national events. It will never happen, but if all Stock/SS guys came together and decided to not enter one of the national events, the $40,000 plus in entry fees that never shows up in the bank will get their attention. I've heard someone mention it before, and it seems to be more plausible as time goes on. The NHRA legal team would probably not advise them to kill of Stock and Super Stock completely. However, if they gradually make us more unhappy with them, we may just go away on our own, which may be part of their plan.