NHRA Please Read

[Alan Roehrich]

Originally Posted by Jim Bailey

Sally: you touched on one very important subject. " It's their Ballgame." ( It's their Ballpark, It's their rules, it's their Bat, it's their Ball, it's their Refs, and it's their Prices.) No one is holding a gun to anybodies head to go race NHRA. ( Except maybe in South Carolina.) If you don't want to race with NHRA ... DON'T. Plain and simple. Race IHRA, race local Brackets, don't race at all, go fishing, but for God's sake, EVERYONE, quit bitching about it. This is still America, and we still do have the right to choose. I will choose to race,( maybe not as often), Wherever, whenever, I want to, and my budget will allow. JB

No, Jim, it is NOT their ballgame. NHRA is a non profit organization funded by its members. It is OUR ballgame, but we have allowed it to be hijacked by corporate raiding profiteers. The entire original concept behind NHRA has been perverted by greedy individuals who are out of touch with their customer base and out of touch with reality. They are taking our money and wasting it, and they are taking our sport and killing it.

You are right about one thing, Jim. This is still America, and we have the right to speak our mind. We have the right to stand up for what we believe is right, and we have the right to stand up against what we believe is wrong. And one other thing. You have the right to not read it. So don't read it. It was pretty obvious what the original poster was going to post with the thread title, if you did not want to read it, no one put a gun to your head.

For all of you who can easily afford the cost increase, and for all of you who do not mind, that is fine. But when all ten of you show up to race, and they don't have a race because not enough racers showed up to make it worth their while (in other words, they don't get all the money they want from just you ten), don't act surprised, and don't come bitching to the rest of us. Because for every one of you to whom money is not an issue, there are 20 to whom it is, or maybe 200. For every 10 of you to whom principle doesn't matter, there are 100 to whom it does. Eventually, NHRA will make it so expensive, and so much of a pain in the ***, that attendance will shrink enough that they won't get enough people to rob.