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Rob Lay · 04-19-2009, 04:01 PM

Nhra is running their business into the ground. For the few years they are trying to get away from the sportsman racers at national events and mainly focus on the professional catagories which is who 85% of the spectators come to see. I feel that they are trying to slowly get rid of sportsman racing at national events so they could focas more on the pros. I live in louisiana and recently attended the sportsnationals at no problem raceway which had over 550 cars. These were all sportsman cars. I am a big fan of the sportsman cars as my dad used to run a superstocker in the 70's and a comp eliminator car in the 80's. Nhra in my opinion is trying to get rid of sportsman all together which will hurt their organization more then they think. Baton rouge just converted to ihra and they had their first national event their in more than 20 years and it was great. It was run just like nhra did in the 70's and the 80's which was a lot of fun. I have been around racing all my life and i will keep attending nhra races because that is what i love to do , but nhra for the last 5-10 years has been becoming more of a disapointment for me from a sportsmans point of view.

04-19-2009, 04:01 PM	#12
Rob Lay Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 5 Likes: 0 Liked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: NHRA Positive? Nhra is running their business into the ground. For the few years they are trying to get away from the sportsman racers at national events and mainly focus on the professional catagories which is who 85% of the spectators come to see. I feel that they are trying to slowly get rid of sportsman racing at national events so they could focas more on the pros. I live in louisiana and recently attended the sportsnationals at no problem raceway which had over 550 cars. These were all sportsman cars. I am a big fan of the sportsman cars as my dad used to run a superstocker in the 70's and a comp eliminator car in the 80's. Nhra in my opinion is trying to get rid of sportsman all together which will hurt their organization more then they think. Baton rouge just converted to ihra and they had their first national event their in more than 20 years and it was great. It was run just like nhra did in the 70's and the 80's which was a lot of fun. I have been around racing all my life and i will keep attending nhra races because that is what i love to do , but nhra for the last 5-10 years has been becoming more of a disapointment for me from a sportsmans point of view.