If it is Full Throttle why would NHRA agree knowing it would effect possible future car sponsors for racers?
If it was NHRA why would you mandate that sponsorship exclusivity?
Either way the NHRA is getting paid, and the racers lose out.
Am I wrong?
That's what I've been saying all along.
NHRA has painted themselves, and more importantly their racers, into a corner trying to emulate NASCAR with many of their policies. I've also heard a number of folks talk about how NASCAR is also taking major hits these days, but as the motorsports giant that has carried the level of popularity they have for the better part of 20 years, there's really only one way to go, and that's down.
Even in the good days, drag racing is/was second only to NASCAR in popularity/fanfare, but it was a
distant second. I believe that the NHRA's failure to recognize/understand this little detail, i.e. that just because you're in second place doesn't necessarily mean you're close to the lead dog, has resulted in some of these poor decisions that are now going to cost drag racing dearly now that times are turbulent. You need to look no further than the hypocrisy noted in the post a couple before mine regarding sponsorship policy to understand who the sanctioning body is
truly looking out for. I can't help but wonder how many sponsors would be, or still are ready to play if it weren't for the exclusives, much less why the sponsors that have left the NHRA but remain in NASCAR if the NHRA is number 1 in customer satisfaction.
The lifting of exclusives needs to happen, and happen now. It's keeping money from coming into the sport, creating monopoly like circumstances that result in higher than necessary product cost and compromising the incentive to provide the best quality product by removing the competition. The answer? Very simple. You give the folks making these decisions a little thing called a plexotamy. By removing a small section of the abdomen and replacing it with a piece of plexiglass
(spelling?), it allows one to still see what's going on in spite of their head being in their.........................
Sean D
