nhra increase fees explained

[Tracy Robbins]

Originally Posted by larrylomascolo

We apologize for the delay in getting back to you and we appreciate your email and acknowledge your disappointment in the recent announcement. NHRA has seen a dramatic increase in legal costs, insurance costs, and operational costs over the last decade, yet most of these fees have not been raised in more than a decade. NHRA has made every effort to keep fees flat, despite these rising costs. Because of our commitment to sportsman racing, NHRA has funded these rising costs all these years but must pass a portion of these costs on to the sportsman racers.



We assure you that it was a very difficult decision to raise these fees. In most cases, it represents a $60 annual increase for an individual racer. When amortized over the length of an average schedule, the increase only equates to a few dollars more per event. We understand the economic times we are in as it has a direct impact on all areas of NHRA’s business and, as a result, led to the need to increase fees. These increases will assist us in being able to continue to provide premier racing programs at the national, divisional and local level.


Again, we appreciate your note and wanted you to know that it was read and acknowledged.



Jerry Archambeault

NHRA

And the racers operating costs including insurance, gas, parts, entry fee's, hotels,etc, etc... haven't increased in the last decade? Oh... and neither has the payout!!!

[buzzinhalfdozen]

Casey, I think you're missing the point a bit on the free spectator tickets. The track operators and owners are trying to turn a profit just like any other business, by giving free gate tickets they now have X amount of potential customers on the property, I would assume this to be desireable versus having empty stands. We as racers are paying for our "place to play" is it fair to the racers? probably not but really we do have a choice, we can park our stuff. This is for the most part not desireable for most racers however it comes down to if a racer can afford to race or wishes to pay the higher fees. From the 2 races I've been to so far this year I haven't seen a sizeable difference in car counts, and to be honest quite a few of these racers have more in their tow rigs than I have in my entire operation, yet again this is all optional. I just don't think we need to get down on the spectators getting free tickets as with us they have a choice of where their going to spend their money. Joe