How would you SAVE CLASS RACING ???

[B Aceves]

Originally Posted by Alan Roehrich

Bob,
They require you to use the part because they're using your performance to sell their parts. The idea is "Bob won this race running our parts, if you buy our parts, you'll be a winner too". Sure, they want to know you're spending money with them, too. But they want proof that you're running their parts just as much to prove their parts are on winners as they do to make sure you spent money with them. It really isn't good for them if they pay you, but you tell all your friends that you're really running something else.

And if you'll note, I think I did a pretty fair job of calling NHRA out for being a big part of what has happened. I doubt I'm high on NHRA's "number one fan list", either.

Again, I'm not on ANYONE'S side. I merely said I can see where the contingency sponsors could feel like they weren't getting their money's worth out of singles. I never even said I agree with it. I just said I can see where they're coming from.

I do not have a single shred of evidence that this was engineered by NHRA to cheat the racers, nor where it was lobbied for by a select group of racers for their own benefit. I have not seen anyone produce any evidence of either being the case.

Well I was not trying to come off sounding as if I was saying your taking sides Not one Bit !! If anything right now we need to stop making personal attacks and all this negative and turn it into postive energy to come up with a solution or at least make us feel like we can help, The problem is these decisions come as a surprise and sudden and right now with all the other situations going on this did not help matters one bit.