NHRA tax returns

[Alan Roehrich]

Originally Posted by Frank Castros

You guys act liked jilted lovers.The NHRA has been screwing you for years. Support your local ST/SS associations and fnck the NHRA.

A lot of these guys paid their dues for decades, so they have a right to complain about being screwed.

There are two choices here. Allow the board to steal NHRA and sell it (they already tried) or run it into the ground, or the racers can try to get it back into the hands of people who care about racing, and try to save it.

There's no reason that people can't support the combo races AND support efforts to return NHRA to an organization that is for the racers, and not for the bank accounts of people sitting on the board of directors.

[Frank Castros]

Originally Posted by Alan Roehrich

A lot of these guys paid their dues for decades, so they have a right to complain about being screwed.

There are two choices here. Allow the board to steal NHRA and sell it (they already tried) or run it into the ground, or the racers can try to get it back into the hands of people who care about racing, and try to save it.

There's no reason that people can't support the combo races AND support efforts to return NHRA to an organization that is for the racers, and not for the bank accounts of people sitting on the board of directors.

Alan,

Of course you and all the current competitors have the right to complain. But the current news is certainly not a surprise, is it? As a former racer I sincerely feel for you guys and I'm angry for you. Support your local ST/SS associations and encourage your local track operators to seek alternatives (IHRA?) The NHRA is run by bad people.

[Alan Roehrich]

Originally Posted by Frank Castros

Alan,

Of course you and all the current competitors have the right to complain. But the current news is certainly not a surprise, is it? As a former racer I sincerely feel for you guys and I'm angry for you. Support your local ST/SS associations and encourage your local track operators to seek alternatives (IHRA?) The NHRA is run by bad people.

It's not a surprise. We have the right, and the obligation, to do a lot more than complain. We were given a legacy by those who went before us, our sport. Our heroes and mentors, the participants, they built this sport, they built NHRA. And it has been taken from them, and from us. NHRA is run by people who love money, not the sport. That's wrong, and something needs to be done about it. It'd be a whole lot better and easier for the racers to take NHRA back than it would to start from scratch.

[Frank Castros]

Alan,
This is the forum. You have the passion.
Who else does? Jack Matyas, Jeff Teuton, Dwight Southerland?
What say you?

[Alan Roehrich]

Frank,
This forum is merely a means to organize, discuss, and to disseminate information. That is what will happen here, and it has happened, and will continue to happen. What must happen next will happen "out in the real world". Let's hope that it does happen.

[ALMACK]

Originally Posted by Frank Castros

If Wally was alive and lucid what would he think of all this?

It's a shame to see what's happening to all of Wally's work.
So sad....

[Frank Castros]

I hope with the passion of people like you that is does for the good of class racing. The grass roots of the sport of drag racing.

[novassdude]

Originally Posted by Frank Castros

If Wally was alive and lucid what would he think of all this?

In the beginning Wally did great things for dragracing. But I believe in the end He was right there with them. He is the one that put these people in charge and enjoyed a very nice pay check himself.

[Frank Castros]

Dude,

You are probably correct that Wally sold out at the end but I bet he still believed in what he created unlike Tom Compton who has no emotional attachment to drag racing.

[BlueOval Ralph]

He and Barb would take their checks and cash them!

Originally Posted by Frank Castros

If Wally was alive and lucid what would he think of all this?