IMO if the right couple of people got together to put together another racers series I think they could put a hurting on NHRA racing.
Look at the crowds behind outlaw type racing, more viewers the NHRA ever has.
Ingenuity and uniqueness grew the sport to where it is today and today we have 16 jelly bean Camaro's running 2-3 power plants hardly diverse.
Trying to level the playing field sty fills all aspects of life, show me where "equal" has worked successfully.
I love my racing but the writing has been on the wall for a while, there is not enough ROI for sponsors with the costs being so high to race now.
Is NHRA going too fold up and go away, probably not anytime soon but when the rich guys get tired of racing for free, haha, more like tired of paying to play they are either going elsewhere or taking up a new hobby.
Look around it is a bunch of old guys racing, old guys watching, and a few young guns coming in with the same last names as the old guys. Not many "new" comers to the pro fields.
Heck some of the drivers that were really good even some champions can not get rides, what does that say. Think of how many have left the sport that were good.