Len Imbrogno.....Seriously now

[LNorton]

>>>Nobody said anything about us getting 100% back, but my god, they just got 100 million dollars.<<<


NHRA getting 100 Million should not affect your payouts. Should NHRA all of a sudden make stock $100,000 to win because another company bought a portion of the organization for 100 million???

If you owned your own business and someone bought a portion of your business and you made a small profit on that portion. What would you say when your customers came asking for part of that money?


>>>NHRA has had 40+ years to refine their expendatures and profit/loss margin. It seems it has worked well for them, and every racer I know says it's time to give back, in the form of better payouts. All expenses go up for us, the racers. Payout needs and should go up to.<<<

501c Not-For-Profit Organizations do not have a "profit". And their financial statements are public knowledge.


>>>Your thoughts about the money going for rules equality, and throttle stop elimination etc. I don't understand. I am for both of those things ( although in the real world throttle stops are here to stay, you must be realistic ) but how would doing those things cost money for management?<<<


Rules don't change themselves. You have to pay someone to review the rules, then someone to make the revision and change the rule book, and then you have to pay people to enforce these rules. And employees don't normally work harder than they have to. Therefore, you will have to employ more people or bump salaries a little bit for added rules to be enforced correctly.

Would you handle the AHFS and all that hooplah for free?



If you are racing for the payout window every weekend you should be racing in NASCAR, where you will get paid. Payouts just can't increase. NHRA hasn't been where I have been racing for a while, but they do pretty well with their program. A lot of racers tend to hate on NHRA, but think about the amount of racer bitching they have to deal with...


Lee Norton
I/PS '02 Firebird 231 V6