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NHRA is in it to get paid. What have they done over the past thirty or forty years to fulfill this sacred mission of theirs? What have they done to support grassroots racers, encourage young people to enter the hobby, or substantively change the public's perception of drag racing?

They've stood by and done nothing to prevent rampant track closures, insisted on sticking with a ridiculously complicated and antiquated ruleset, jacked up fees, removed voting rights from their membership, played favorites with whatever manufacturer was writing the checks at any given time... the list of things they've done to drive people as far from the racetrack as they could get could go on forever and ultimately, the general public's perception of drag racing hasn't changed a bit since 1951, ranging from neutral at best to negative. They can pay lip service to "getting kids off the street", but it's as meaningless as the IRS saying they exist to "serve" taxpayers.

And now this, a debacle that any first year business student could have told them was going to turn into a PR nightmare. All of the clowns running the show in Glendora need to be deposited in the nearest unemployment line before the NHRA becomes terminal, if it isn't already there.