1/26/2009

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Looking for some match racing 

I kinda agree with you BUT as a guy who, along with my brother, will race Top Fuel this year when it's affordable, we hope to get a few match races and race some at IHRA/NHRA. With this said, NHRA at their discretion, even though neither one of us care about points, we’re old, not naive enough to think we could win a championship, or even care.  Point is, we may not get to race at NHRA because we’re just trying to have a little fun in our old age and race where and when we can afford to do so.

NHRA is very similar to an OSHA inspection... No rights whatsoever.

Mike Dakin
Tipp City, Ohio

If their lips are moving…

NHRA is touting "full fields" for the Pomona event. Well, if they recall, last year Pomona was extremely well-attended as well. Yet I seem to recall several TF fields that were not full or had only 16 cars. The ostriches have their heads in the sand. Do they actually believe that NHRA is doing well?

Wake up, folks - the economy is wreaking havoc with drag racing and drag racers as much as it is the rest of us. NHRA execs are either incredibly naive or they're just flat dab lying to us. I believe it's the latter.

Steve Graham
Raleigh, North Carolina area

A few small steps

It is about time someone publicly tacked the tail on the jackass. Mickey Thompson's public statement, in affect pulling the plug on NHRA, is what more companies and racers should have the brains and balls to do. "They" might start listening.

Compton's letter is good in some ways and ridiculous in others. He stated that he understands the hardships both professionally and personally. Bullshit -- I would have no personal problems if I was making 707K a year. Let’s see that dummy live on 20K a year like myself and many others that don't even make that much. I am proud that they have allowed children under 12 in the races for free, but the deal with the military is ridiculous. Anyone, active or retired, that has a military ID, should be free of charge for the whole damn weekend.

Then there is the allowance of "cheap" seats. At most tracks that should include the whole spectator side. Folks might flood the spectator side and drink and eat the difference away and the tracks and NHRA would come out way ahead.

I love that nostalgia Pro Stock idea, I am still a nitro guy first, but Pro Stocks would be awesome. Some guy mentioned, however, that Jenkins' Vega was a tube chassis car, and I would like to point out that at the 1970 NHRA Winternationals, Jenkins was in a 1968/69 Camaro RS. There is a little ‘71 Maverick rusting away just down the road from my place; if I was making 707K it would be a nostalgia Pro Stocker, ala the late great Dyno Don Nicholson.

Wish I was participating in any way this year, but since I have received no calls so far, I believe I will be sitting home for '09. They say a brain is a bad thing to waste. Well a good racer, from driving to team management, is also a bad thing to waste. God bless all.

RE: NHRA’s new testing limits, Graham Light and NHRA management are idiots and fools. Now, in the purist form of communism, teams cannot test after 4 test days. Seems to me the death of drag racing is what these fools seek. Instead of promoting drag racing for the sake of competition, they are making drag racing extinct in the truest spirit of communism. Control, control, control. I will not be renewing my membership next year.

Mark "Hog Wild" Elms
Everton, Missouri