Do you believe that the NHRA techs are doing their job?

SS/GSI · 08-03-2010, 03:29 PM

I believe that NHRA has become more about getting your entry fee than making sure your car is properly built. Between not paying attention to bogus combinations (more refactoring sessions needed), letting cars run much heavier than they should be, for their class, to allowing borderline Pro Stockers to run GT & Modified. Even true Super Stockers aren't being policed for proper emblems, trim, etc... Weight breaks are not being atheard to, as well as GT cars and Stockers are not claiming the car in the proper years, based on the tail lights, skirt kits, hoods, etc...It is time for NHRA to wake up! Most of the sportsman drivers have been in the sport for decades and remember when the smallest detail would get you DQed. Teardown has become a joke, and when they do find something, they would rather change the rule than loose your money. The way the car counts are today they need every entry they can get. However I leave you ith this, economies have risen, fallen and risen again. Maybe the car counts are low because the aging population of Stock and Super Stock owners are fed up of all the things mentioned above and not because of the natural cycle of economics.

08-03-2010, 03:29 PM	#1
SS/GSI Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 291 Likes: 79 Liked 750 Times in 108 Posts	Do you believe that the NHRA techs are doing their job? I believe that NHRA has become more about getting your entry fee than making sure your car is properly built. Between not paying attention to bogus combinations (more refactoring sessions needed), letting cars run much heavier than they should be, for their class, to allowing borderline Pro Stockers to run GT & Modified. Even true Super Stockers aren't being policed for proper emblems, trim, etc... Weight breaks are not being atheard to, as well as GT cars and Stockers are not claiming the car in the proper years, based on the tail lights, skirt kits, hoods, etc...It is time for NHRA to wake up! Most of the sportsman drivers have been in the sport for decades and remember when the smallest detail would get you DQed. Teardown has become a joke, and when they do find something, they would rather change the rule than loose your money. The way the car counts are today they need every entry they can get. However I leave you ith this, economies have risen, fallen and risen again. Maybe the car counts are low because the aging population of Stock and Super Stock owners are fed up of all the things mentioned above and not because of the natural cycle of economics.