Does anybody really care?

[Joe Santangelo]

Great read John, as usual.

[FS Fan]

RJ,

What car were you running in 1989 when you won?

[Ed Wright]

R.J.'s $15000.00 1989 dollars were worth a lot more than our 2015 dollars as well. A guy could build a good car for 15K in '89. If you have to buy your engines, it would probably buy you a freshen up today.

[Mickey Whaley]

man the beach is looking good!

[Bruce Noland]

Several years ago Tom Compton stood up at a meeting with Sportsman racers and said he knew that nhra had not been treating the Sportsman racers very well. He said that things were going to change. Now, why has nhra been treating the Sportsman racers so poorly? Tom admits they have not treated us well and yet nothing has changed. Apparently empty words coming from a man who is running on empty. Aside from the personal tragedy of a man's career running of the tracks. Why should we care is a more important question. And I do empathize with his personal problems but he's presented himself to us as an unsympathetic man.

[Lyn Smith]

Bruce maybe he is gone now because he didn't make good on his promise.LOL

[Alan Roehrich]

I wish the man no personal ill or tragedy. For the human part of his plight, I consider him to be just that, a human, and hope that his personal life improves.

However, I'd like to see him and his ilk gone from NHRA, and yesterday would not be soon enough.

As far as the apathy of sportsman racers to the lack of his presence in the day to day operations of NHRA, it seems to me that most sportsman racers have resigned themselves to the way NHRA is treating them, and it makes no difference whose face is put on that. First and foremost, they want more than anything to race, and they wish NHRA would treat them the way they should be treated. So, they race, and they make the best of the situation as it stands. I can't really see where it should matter whose face NHRA puts on it.