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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Fishers Indiana
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1. First let us see the salary increases for the NHRA top executives for the past 30 years and figure out the percentage of pay increase they have got over the years . Then ask why they got an increase but the racers purse stayed the same for that long and eatery feels and memberships went up . 2. Instead of increasing the entry to a National event how about they increase the number of cars that can enter to a full field 128 car and increase the payout anyhow even if it means some of the top executives take a SLIGHT pay cut to show good faith for the love of the sport and organization and more important the racers who pay their salaries . Not to mention more T.V coverage of sportsman racers so we have a better chance for sponsors 3. The shipping wright thing only thing I would add is do away with the 170 driver math |
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Join Date: Nov 2018
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Simple answer in my mind, make NHRA fun again. I don't care if you run a Factory Stock or a Q/SA. I grew up idolizing my Dad and his buddies that chased around this country hoping to race a National Event. National Events have lost their luster for the Sportsman Racer in my mind, which is unfortunate. Sign me up for the first Time Machine Ride back to the mid 1980's please...
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: from Vancouver BC Canada, now in Nova Scotia
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64 cars times $340. entry fee equals $21760. Surely they could bump up the pitiful round money and finalist payout without digging even deeper into the "customers" pockets. If they can`t sharpen their pencils enough to find where all the remaining entry money disappeared to, open up the quotas.
As mentioned, if you want to run solid roller lifters in an engine that left the factory with a hydraulic flat tappet cam, add a second "S" to the class designation on the windows. As for "getting rid of all the outdated slow cars that nobody but old people can relate to", you mean eliminate the very cars that Stock and Super Stock were based upon? Like cars that were available new to the general public, with a production VIN number, and the same engines, transmissions and rearends as those cars that anybody to drive of the lot? Also, when I look at the typical Stock -S/S racer in the pits, I have to say, the vast majority are "old enough" to relate to traditional Class cars. I can certainly relate more to a 69 Mustang with a 428 Cobra Jet , like I used to drive to work, or my old neighbors SS396 Chevelle, that a 2022 "modern race car", that can basically race in Stock with a Competition Eliminator engine, a 2 speed automatic, and a solid 9" Ford rearend!
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Pukwana SD
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