[Bruce Noland]

Lee, the very first race that nhra attempts to produce without Sportsman racers will put them in the entertainment busness without any premise for holding onto its coveted not for profit status. nhra has been a traveling entertainment show for years but it has always had the not for profit protections that the Sportsman racers have helped to protect. Compton found out when he tried to pedal off the Pros that it was a fools errand to separate them from the Sportsman racers. Compton, himself, said many times that he knew that nhra had not treated the Sportsman racers with the respect they deserve. He brought Len Imbrogno in to help fix the problems but never really supported him. And one more point, there is nothing wrong with encouraging nhra to improve relations with us. In fact it is healthy. There were a bunch of unhappy racers at Pomona for various reasons but most are too smart to come out here and be berated by a clown who has never raced with us.