NHRA has an opportunity (14 Viewers)

[Mike]

Guys blowing up funny car bodies and destroying engines every other pass is not sustainable. NHRA has an opportunity after 2 more races to make meaningful changes to the nitro classes.

People have posted good ideas on here, many they've heard from crew chiefs. The question is: Will NHRA adopt meaningful rule changes, or sit idly by while their nitro classes dwindle away?

It's ironic that TF is struggling with entries on the pro side and it's TAFC on the sportsman side

 

[ironpony]

No they will not, the NHRA gets paid either way, their bread and butter is divisional race tracks. Nitro is the circus division.

 

[65 Goatboy]

You beat me to it, after this past weekend I was thinking exactly the same thing. What Alan said is interesting but that can't be the whole problem
since their is a rarely a national event where their isn't long delays. "THEY" can fix this if they want to. I remember when Nascar had to slow the super speedways down due airborne cars. If your in the stands or watching on tv can you really tell the difference between 190 and 220? In Nhra 340 or 290? Is Nhra afraid of reduced attendance if their are no 340 mph runs? I'm tired of bye runs in eliminations and long delays. Hey Nhra maybe I'll keep the 150 bucks that tv costs and maybe we won't travel the two hours to our nearest national event.

Alan Reinhart​

There is a valetrain issue, most think there is a bad batch of parts. But you can't tell by looking at them. Even the guys in Australia were talking about it last week.

 

[65 Goatboy]

No they will not, the NHRA gets paid either way, their bread and butter is divisional race tracks. Nitro is the circus division.

Don't disagree but with no circus division their will no longer be national events or mostly full stands. Maybe that's not a bad thing, we have a local 1/8 mile Nhra sanctioned track that is very popular.

 

[ironpony]

Don't disagree but with no circus division their will no longer be national events or mostly full stands. Maybe that's not a bad thing, we have a local 1/8 mile Nhra sanctioned track that is very popular.

Well being in Ohio we have multiple tracks running every weekend and some weeknight events, one gets a National event once a year. Probably makes them some extra money in the long run.
IHRA has two events now at one track and one at the other so they have it pretty well covered, we shall see time will tell.

Biggest factor is going to be IF nitro teams can continue to absorb the costs in NHRA. Sponsors are scarce now.