Don't you roll your eyes at me when I'm talking to you!

Better yet, just put a Salery Cap on the Teams.........................

There are alot of great ball players coming out in the drafts every year. There are only half a dozen great drag teams now days, and by great I mean the ones with the riches, not the talent. Last year was a fluke, the norm is Team Shoe, Team Force and Team Black all but coast to the championships after Labor Day.............

I hate to keep bringing this up, but maybe the majority of fans are on the countdown bandwagon. Look at the numbers, there is simply not a huge number of people complaining about the new system other than a few sports writers and some vocal opponents on the various drag racing web sites. PJ's petition has been up for months and only has 1500 signatures. That's about 3 minutes worth of visitors on NHRA.com on a race Sunday. It's about 2% of current NHRA members. It's just not a very significant number by any measure. One could make a very valid point that NHRA covers the countdown because that's what NHRA.com visitors want.

There's a very simple way to find out. If nhra had the stones to put up a survey asking people if they want the countdown or not. Mention it during the tv braodcast even. After all if they want the customers money shouldn't they listen to what we want?
Of course I would prefer an independant source to oversee the results. Not saying that they would but it would very easy to come back and say hey look at this 90% of people love this and then not have to prove it.

I would argue that my inability to get the word out has been the issue on the petition. The petition did receive 2 mentions on major websites however they were during the off season and 1 was the week between Christmas and New Years. Neither of those times frames are going to draw enough people as during the off season only us die hards are in race mode.

I've contaced several race sites, sports sites, magazines, newspapers and tv stations in towns that National events are held, espn (tv and web), Mike Dunn, Tom Compton and the Nhra board. I have only ever heard back from 3.
I guarantee if I was better able to get the word out the numbers on the petition would be much, much higher.

I'v had people offer to even take petitions to the track and have people sign there. I haven't taken anyone up on that yet but maybe I should.

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PJ,
Perhaps what you should have done is typed another letter praising NHRA for trying another system and posted it also. That way the letter that received the most signatures could have been forwarded to NHRA. Perhaps the "silent majority" would come forward and sign up.

At least they're L-E-G-I-T-I-M-A-T-E!

WOW I'm glad I was able to only catch bits and pieces of the qualifying show. I couldn't handle too much of it.

There was more flip flopping then at a political convention.
I wish drivers had the stones to actually speak their mind. If they like the system fine, then say so. If they don't like then fine say that too. Something is either right or wrong, good or bad for the sport.

I was gonna lose it if I heard one more driver say how if they were in first place then they wouldn't like it however since right now they can't find the finish line with a strong tail wind then they like it because they feel they deserve to still be the champ even though they suck right now. (ok maybe I paraphrased a little ) I never knew championships or even being a contender was an entitlement.


Wouldn't it be down right funny if shoe, Force and Anderson still end up winning the championships again this year but under the old system they would not have. So much for opening it up to new contenders. We already know we're not going to have as close of a finsih as we did last year.

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The tap-dancing wore a hole in the pavement. Connie Kalitta was the only one to remotely speak his mind.

sorry Bob can't help it, wrong is wrong

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