Drag racing is doomed Options

[Steve D]

.....See you in another couple of weeks.....

OK then what does this mean Dragrap?!!!!!

[ddyke]

Ashley or Danica? Ashley!

[Gasket]

Sorry guys but I am convinced that neither the NHRA or IHRA have any future,everyone knows what these 'corperations' are like,as long as money rolls in they're happy but any slowdown brings out the 'petulant kid' in them,they do'nt sell as a going concearn they dismantle and destroy.Another couple of points relative to this takeover 1/Ticket prices are high now which has led to falling attendance,d'yer think these folks will cut the cost to encourage more spectators,nah they'll put ticket prices up to make up the loss,thus even fewer folks will attend 2/ NHRA was a non-profit organisation and thus paid tax at a low rate.the '06 IRS figures just released for NHRA showed a very small amount left over on the plus side,so if the 'corperation' begins to take money out where will it come from and how will they fund the tax increase as a public operation.Outside of all of this are the new rules governing nitro,it's use (by licence),it's storage (limited to 40 gallons,not enough to complete a full meeting) and it's new higher rate of duty (making nitro more costly than rare wine),this will no doubt lead to the demise of fuel cars and a return to alky as the main fuel.Yes I'm wearing my black cowl and carrying my sickle but only in view of the facts.Yes Dragrap your right regarding traffic signals and LoneRacer pessimism is is not good but niether is avoiding the inevitable,I'm just glad that outlaw,Pro-mod and nostalgia are largely outside the sphere of the NHRA/IHRA ,outlaw and Pro-mod will survive as alky and gasoline are the main fuels but I fear that the ever growing (until now) nostalgia scene will suffer due to the nitro situation,their fuel mixtures are a lower %age nitro but cost/redtape/availability will kill any further growth.I must admit that when all this came up on the net I considered it as 'worrymongerers' but folks really do seem very concerned.

I can tell you one thing for sure right now; drag racing will never die! Yes it may be that large corporate funded stuff like NHRA and all that may go down the tubes but the sport itself will continue without a hint of slowing down. I say this because here in South Africa, and I am sure all over the world, there are illegal drag races. Cars get tuned by various tuning houses and so they build up a reputation. Then the tuning houses get together and sponsor their own events. Here we don't have anything like the NHRA, all we have is MSA (Motorsport South Africa) which, while they set out the rules for fair and safe racing, they do not sponsor many, if any, drag racing events. Yet the sport is still growing in leaps and bounds thanks to companies such as Speed 'n Sound and others who sponsor and set up events.
SO as long as there are dedicated drivers and tuning companies in your area, you can rest assured that the sport of drag racing will never die because there is still plenty of money to be made from it.