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You make it down to 4 cars and all you get is $300! Make it down to the final 2 cars and only get $500! I remember making it down to 6 cars at the last Atlanta NHRA National event. I received a whopping $250! So where is all the money from entry fees going? How come they pay more to win a Divisional race than a National Event? Then to hear they had timing issues at Bella Rose and refused to re-run some of the rounds, after already re-running prior runs with admitted issues? This is getting to be ridiculous. Why are the big wigs at NHRA treating the sportsman racers like their red headed stepchild. After all, WE, that's right, WE are their customers. That doesn't seem to be any concern of theirs anymore. When bean counters become the managing body, instead of what used to be people with real racing experience running these events, it surely shows that it's now all about the corporate or advertising dollars, not about the details that matter to the racers. This was never more obvious than when they hired a division DIRECTOR that had NO DRAG RACING experience or knowledge of drag racing management experience. BUT he did come from, wait for it, wait for it, Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus on his resume! And when you asked this DIVISION DIRECTOR a technical question about Stock Eliminator, His response was, "Well, I suggest you Call the Division 2 Director" Thankfully he was removed from that position after only 1 year. Pitiful. Maybe IHRA can make a come back and give NHRA some competition. Until then, NHRA knows they are the only game in town, and if you don't like how we do business, go somewhere else. That's the attitude they've had for a number of years. So sad.