SRAC Meetings

west coast · 03-13-2010, 11:34 AM

Is there minutes taken or a transcipts from these meetings so the racers know what is going on so they can speak to the reps and give there opions to the reps. Since the are representing us the racers be able to voice to NHRA are concerns and ideas how to make this association better? Last year I did not here anything that was being discuused at these meetings other than on this site.

Woodro Josey · 03-13-2010, 12:41 PM

Thats why Greg Hill and Myself resigned!

SC1317 · 03-13-2010, 03:24 PM

John DiBartalameo (sorry on the spelling) is the .90 rep here in D1 and sends out an email letting us know what was discussed and what concerns were brought up.

Greg Hill · 03-14-2010, 08:31 AM

What's discussed by SRAC members doesn't matter. NHRA doesn't listen and furthermore doesn't care. The SRAC is a sham. Anybody that believes that they have any influence on decisions made by NHRA is naive. This could have been a really good thing but the management at NHRA never intended for it to work to benefit the sportsman racers. As long as there is no power vested in the SRAC it's not relevant, because NHRA just does what it wants.

Two years ago I was at Gainesville and was a part of the first SRAC meeting which Graham Light conducted. I went into that meeting with my eyes wide open knowing how sprtsman racers had been treated over the years and not really expecting it to amount to much. Leaving the meeting I was cautiously optimistic because Graham Light's message to us was, this is your deal and as long as it doesn't affect the pros and doesn't cost a lot of money, you guys can decide what you want ot do. At first it seemed like it was working ok. We all communicated by e-mail and talked about things that our division members brought to us. We discussed lots of issues and if we felt something needed to be done we voted on it and sent it on to NHRA for implementation. I will say that Bob Lang was very helpful in guiding us in understanding the way NHRA worked and how we had to do things if we were to be effective. We were successful getting a couple of things done early on but by mid summer anything we sent to NHRA was routinely denied and the message we were getting was to just be quiet.

By the end of the year it was clear that any time spent doing the business of the SRAC was a waste of time. As Woodro said,at that time he and I resigned. NHRA is never going to give sportsman racers a voice in determining what the rules should be or how they are enforced, even though I think it would be in their best interest to do so. They are very short term thinking and are really interested only in how to make more money for themselves. When have you ever seen them do anything to promote sportsman racing or anything to encourage growth of sportsman racing?

If their is no money in it for them they will not spend any effort or time doing anything. This is a non profit organization that operates about like some of the big banks did in the last few years. Until we have a sportsman racers organization that has some power nothing will ever change.

03-13-2010, 11:34 AM	#1
west coast Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Rainy Washington Posts: 579 Likes: 4 Liked 131 Times in 51 Posts	SRAC Meetings Is there minutes taken or a transcipts from these meetings so the racers know what is going on so they can speak to the reps and give there opions to the reps. Since the are representing us the racers be able to voice to NHRA are concerns and ideas how to make this association better? Last year I did not here anything that was being discuused at these meetings other than on this site.

03-13-2010, 12:41 PM	#2
Woodro Josey Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 805 Likes: 0 Liked 3 Times in 1 Post	Re: SRAC Meetings Thats why Greg Hill and Myself resigned! __________________ Woodro Josey 2002 STK

03-13-2010, 03:24 PM	#3
SC1317 Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: NY Snowbelt Posts: 113 Likes: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: SRAC Meetings John DiBartalameo (sorry on the spelling) is the .90 rep here in D1 and sends out an email letting us know what was discussed and what concerns were brought up. __________________ Michele Corigliano

03-14-2010, 08:31 AM	#4
Greg Hill VIP Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: Louisville , KY Posts: 1,994 Likes: 63 Liked 270 Times in 68 Posts	Re: SRAC Meetings What's discussed by SRAC members doesn't matter. NHRA doesn't listen and furthermore doesn't care. The SRAC is a sham. Anybody that believes that they have any influence on decisions made by NHRA is naive. This could have been a really good thing but the management at NHRA never intended for it to work to benefit the sportsman racers. As long as there is no power vested in the SRAC it's not relevant, because NHRA just does what it wants. Two years ago I was at Gainesville and was a part of the first SRAC meeting which Graham Light conducted. I went into that meeting with my eyes wide open knowing how sprtsman racers had been treated over the years and not really expecting it to amount to much. Leaving the meeting I was cautiously optimistic because Graham Light's message to us was, this is your deal and as long as it doesn't affect the pros and doesn't cost a lot of money, you guys can decide what you want ot do. At first it seemed like it was working ok. We all communicated by e-mail and talked about things that our division members brought to us. We discussed lots of issues and if we felt something needed to be done we voted on it and sent it on to NHRA for implementation. I will say that Bob Lang was very helpful in guiding us in understanding the way NHRA worked and how we had to do things if we were to be effective. We were successful getting a couple of things done early on but by mid summer anything we sent to NHRA was routinely denied and the message we were getting was to just be quiet. By the end of the year it was clear that any time spent doing the business of the SRAC was a waste of time. As Woodro said,at that time he and I resigned. NHRA is never going to give sportsman racers a voice in determining what the rules should be or how they are enforced, even though I think it would be in their best interest to do so. They are very short term thinking and are really interested only in how to make more money for themselves. When have you ever seen them do anything to promote sportsman racing or anything to encourage growth of sportsman racing? If their is no money in it for them they will not spend any effort or time doing anything. This is a non profit organization that operates about like some of the big banks did in the last few years. Until we have a sportsman racers organization that has some power nothing will ever change. __________________ Greg Hill 4171 STK