nhra increase fees explained

[Michael Pliska]

Did everyone else get the same form letter email reply? I got the same one as above, with a final "customized" line added at the bottom.

Regards,

[chevy620]

Seems sad to me that they can just raise prices to sportsman racers, do you think the "Sportsman Committees" were asked about it?

I just got my National Event entry form for Topeka. $60.00 Insurance Surcharge??? Are you kidding me. 500 cars x $60.00= $30,000.00 in "Supplemental Insurance Surcharges"??????????? WOW! I cannot imaging the entire insurance premium for a National Event is much more than $7 to $10K Max. It seems with payouts FROZEN, contingency payouts slipping to 50% of a couple years ago and their premier facility at Indy looking like a "worn-out *****" with bad roads, loose gravel everywhere andgrass parking that is so rutted you can barely even get on the grass..........
they would want new customers, not chase the existing one off?

But then again, their Pres makes $700K a year, what the heck do I know.

Jok

[dhmoore]

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

Ya it is nice to work for NHRA isn't it, if they need to spend money, they invent a new position for the assistant, to the assistant (or a Goodbuddy). What in the world does the Board of Directors really do that justifies their salaries? There are a couple of Board of Directors that I have never even seen at a race or heard from them on TV. How does their background qualify them to be on the Board of Directors for a Racing Organization?

With that said, lets go to insurance; who is the policy holder for the "professionals', it seems to me that the corporations sponsoring these teams have "some sort of coverage" for them. Why do the "sportsmen racers" have to cover everybody on property that includes spectators. So, who is the policyholder? Is it K&K insurance? Because I believe being Members of NHRA that we should know some of these small details. I also believe that we should be able to call the insurance company & get a copy of the policy. (JUST SOME THOUGHTS)

Next.

Yes, it is nice to go to a race and watch side by side racing, but it gets old real fast when, let's say the car come off the concrete they go up in smoke. Could it be that there is a BUMP there? With the money that NHRA is not making (ha ha) they could FIX IT!!!!!! JUST VENTING, what do I know, I am just a Super Street/SuperGas Racer that is tired of bending over and not getting kissed. I'm also, disgusted with promotors trying to save money and not preparing a track properly, VENTING AGAIN

So here I am working for $8.00 an hour so that I can go to a damn race to have fun and maybe win an old stock piled "Wally"!! (ask Mike D.) Is it not too much to ask that we all race on even playing field? VENTING!!!

It use to be fun to go to the races and see people you don't see everyday, but because of the econmoy and the things that are going on in the world, people can not afford to pay their mortgage's or monthly bills and have made the decision to stay home. So the car count is down,and NHRA just raises entry to make up the diff. i think ill look for a assistnats job at NHRA, damn that's funny.

So, in closing, I'm sure that this is not the NHRA that Wally Parks had invisioned in the 1950's!!!! Yes, gas & the cost of living were low, we don't live the in the 50's anymore!!!!!!!! some of you damn super stock & stockers think so by what you say on this think, we are all racers and you cant get 25 of us to agree on anthing.bs bs bs!!!!!!!!!!!
JOE YES IM #1 IN MY MIND
DAN MOORE SST238D

[GarysZ24]

Originally Posted by Ed Fernandez

You could probably retire very comfortably on what NHRA gets for pit parking and shirt sales.It's not chump change.Irregardless we are getting hosed but I've resigned myself to the fact that NHRA is in charge and no matter what we do short of just quitting willchange the situation.
All of the S/SS can't agree on ANYTHING.We all have our own opinions and agendas.Gee sort of like every day life.
I don't have the $$$ to race much this year and I really don't care.

Ed F.

Ed,

I have to correct myself for yesterdays reply...I agree with everything you said, except the "I really don't care" part of it, because if I didn't care then I would've stayed back in Denver (with the snow, the cold, and the enormously long tows that Colorado class racers have to make to get to their non-Bandimere Speedway divisionals, nationals, and even national open races!!!

I moved to Az., to race more (not less), and this stinking economy is getting to be such that I'm seriously pending another move either to Div. 6 (where divisionals are even closer to home, and they have a national open points series as well), or back to Denver...which I'll only do as a last resort, because I don't have Burton/Hagberg/Cotten kind of money! I wonder if that's part of the reason Glenn Person moved away from Mesa, Az. back to Canada also???

Sitting at home, and reading in the dragster mags of others doing what I moved away from my (now grown) children & family to pursue (becoming one of the most successful fwd stocker racers ever, and the first to win multiple national/divisional events, or even becoming the first fwd stocker racer to win a national/divisional event this century--which I came close to doing one of the two 3x's... from the '06 Mile Highs, to the '08 LODRS D7 R1 race here in Chandler, Az.).

Now that I missed my home state races, I may join you in not caring about racing this year (at least for a points chase, like last year), but I'll do my darndest to be sure that wherever I'm living post 09/09, that I'll be plotting to get back into the championship points chase next year!!!Wish me well please Ed, because I need it???

[Ed Fernandez]

Originally Posted by GarysZ24

Ed,

I have to correct myself for yesterdays reply...I agree with everything you said, except the "I really don't care" part of it, because if I didn't care then I would've stayed back in Denver (with the snow, the cold, and the enormously long tows that Colorado class racers have to make to get to their non-Bandimere Speedway divisionals, nationals, and even national open races!!! I moved to Az., to race more (not less), and this stinking economy is getting to be such that I'm seriously pending another move (either to Div. 6 where divisionals are even closer to home, and they have a national open points series as well, or back to Denver...which I'll only do as a last resort, because I don't have Burton/Hagberg/Johnson kind of money! Wish me well, because I need it???

If moving Is'nt a problem then move to either Div.1 or 2.Either one has a multitude of tracks (Div 2gives
you an IHRA option,a little milder weather too).There,open and shut case.

[GarysZ24]

Originally Posted by Ed Fernandez

If moving Is'nt a problem then move to either Div.1 or 2.Either one has a multitude of tracks (Div 2gives
you an IHRA option,a little milder weather too).There,open and shut case.

I wish it was that cut and dry of an option, but the company I work for is no closer to any of those areas than the state of Illinois. Now that would be an option to ponder...Div 3 & the IHRA racing from that area...as the pop song said, "things that make you go hmmm". Now that I'm soon to be 51 (and being a parts delivery driver), most of my works competition is younger than I...thus age discrimination has to be considered as well as starting over anew, which after investing 6.5yrs of my working life into my present job, I'm not willing (nor do I think it's a good ideal) to start over again (especially since I'm one of the alpha drivers, and I get to enjoy 3wks of paid time off for my racing!).

Btw Ed, you call Hurricane season (esp. in Fl.) "a little milder weather"? Now that's funny...R.O.L.O.L.!!!