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Old 12-21-2023, 05:08 PM   #1
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So who would pay for the travel to this extra race? Also, speaking of a pathetic payout, how about those huge Division championship purses!!! A whopping $3000 to win SS! I won the same amount in 2007! Back then I thought that was a small payout for winning a championship! Maybe increase those to put some emphasis back on LODRS races!
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Old 12-25-2023, 05:04 PM   #2
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So who would pay for the travel to this extra race? Also, speaking of a pathetic payout, how about those huge Division championship purses!!! A whopping $3000 to win SS! I won the same amount in 2007! Back then I thought that was a small payout for winning a championship! Maybe increase those to put some emphasis back on LODRS races!
I'm sure you young guys don't know or remember but we won more money back it the 70s when gas was around $0.50 a gallon and the cost of going to a race wasn't killing anyone. And yes... companies who posted and provided us with decals had to pay up or one call to NHRA and they would go after them to pay up
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Old 12-26-2023, 01:11 PM   #3
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I'm sure you young guys don't know or remember but we won more money back it the 70s when gas was around $0.50 a gallon and the cost of going to a race wasn't killing anyone. And yes... companies who posted and provided us with decals had to pay up or one call to NHRA and they would go after them to pay up



Absolute fact.




And this is one of the two biggest problems, purse wise. Both are directly related to poor performance on the part of NHRA.


You know, people love to point out that independent promoters, such as Butner, Biondo, Bohannon, Connelly, etc., seem to be able to put on big money races, but no one shows, because there's no little gold man.


If those independent promoters can create big money races, why can't NHRA go get that same money, and put it on the line when there is little gold man up for grabs? The money is OBVIOUSLY out there.
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Old 12-27-2023, 09:52 AM   #4
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why can't NHRA go get that same money
Who's to say they're not? Who in any of the Sportsmen eliminators (or pros for that matter) is in a position to know just what the "Ivory Tower Boys" are up to? There is no oversight. They can generate income where ever they want and spend it (or not) where ever it does them the most good. And it's not on us. We just continue to show up, happy to have a place to race.
When we (the NHRA Members) gave away our proxy ('81,'82?) we gave away our souls. We didn't even sell them.
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Old 12-27-2023, 11:43 AM   #5
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Billy, if they were actually getting that money, it wouldn't be as easily available to the other promoters.


By all means, you're correct, they're not spending money on the sportsman racers. There's no oversight.


And the racers will not unite. The premise that there is strength in numbers is false. The strength is in unity. Which the racers lack, because they're too blinded by their own little agenda.
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When we (the NHRA Members) gave away our proxy ('81,'82?) we gave away our souls. We didn't even sell them.

So... Why and how did that happen?
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All of the members were sent a letter asking if we wanted to keep our voting rights or "trust" the BOD. A letter that was "ignored" ( not responded to) was counted as a vote to "trust" the BOD. There was no internet back then.
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