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Gary Smith · 03-07-2010, 10:40 AM

If everyone here were smart, you'd lobby class racing to Rich Christensen of PINKS All Out instead of continually wasting time and money with NHRA. After attending my first PAO this guy knows how to treat, promote, and market our style of racing. He also knows how to work the spectators unlike NHRA who is taking everyone's money and bending us over and giving it to us in a painful way. Rich not only gives a ***** and honestly cares, but really enjoys what he does!!!! He connects with EVERYONE, not just the cash cows who come to play (aka the John Forces and Don Schumachers). Something to be said about the success of PINKS All Out format when NHRA creates their half-assed, half-hearted attempt "Unleashed" program to re-gain what they've lost to PAO. Because NHRA it's all about the money THEY make, not HOW they make it. Where Rich it's all about the racers and connecting with the fans, understanding the financial success comes as a result. Because he knows without racers, he has no fans, and with no fans, he has no show, and with no show, there's no marketability. Wally Parks was the creative thinker and had the passion behind the creation of NHRA. But he's long gone and nothing like the bottom line driven bean counters who run it today. Everyone must understand the logic of corporate bean counters...it's all about the numbers, the 80-20 rule, and financial bottom line. We're in the minority column, a liability that "brings nothing to the table" according to what's on paper. I cannot stress enough, that, as long as the majority here continue to thumb their noses at these suggestions and at the few of us who have been willing to turn our backs on the true enemy of our destiny, we will continue to get hurt, much like the path of Modified Eliminator. In hard economic times greed becomes increasingly obvious. Just like an employee receiving his/her termination letter, we are facing the same circumstances. The top brass do not care about the personal hardship it causes, only that it bought the white elephant more time until the fat cats can safely cut and run.

03-07-2010, 10:40 AM	#1
Gary Smith Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Greensboro, NC Posts: 820 Likes: 9 Liked 132 Times in 30 Posts	PINKS vs Class Racing If everyone here were smart, you'd lobby class racing to Rich Christensen of PINKS All Out instead of continually wasting time and money with NHRA. After attending my first PAO this guy knows how to treat, promote, and market our style of racing. He also knows how to work the spectators unlike NHRA who is taking everyone's money and bending us over and giving it to us in a painful way. Rich not only gives a ***** and honestly cares, but really enjoys what he does!!!! He connects with EVERYONE, not just the cash cows who come to play (aka the John Forces and Don Schumachers). Something to be said about the success of PINKS All Out format when NHRA creates their half-assed, half-hearted attempt "Unleashed" program to re-gain what they've lost to PAO. Because NHRA it's all about the money THEY make, not HOW they make it. Where Rich it's all about the racers and connecting with the fans, understanding the financial success comes as a result. Because he knows without racers, he has no fans, and with no fans, he has no show, and with no show, there's no marketability. Wally Parks was the creative thinker and had the passion behind the creation of NHRA. But he's long gone and nothing like the bottom line driven bean counters who run it today. Everyone must understand the logic of corporate bean counters...it's all about the numbers, the 80-20 rule, and financial bottom line. We're in the minority column, a liability that "brings nothing to the table" according to what's on paper. I cannot stress enough, that, as long as the majority here continue to thumb their noses at these suggestions and at the few of us who have been willing to turn our backs on the true enemy of our destiny, we will continue to get hurt, much like the path of Modified Eliminator. In hard economic times greed becomes increasingly obvious. Just like an employee receiving his/her termination letter, we are facing the same circumstances. The top brass do not care about the personal hardship it causes, only that it bought the white elephant more time until the fat cats can safely cut and run. __________________ Gary Smith "another broke racer spectating"