Should NHRA move to shorter weekends and have more night racing? (Answer up to two different questions)

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  • Tanner - 7 years ago

    30 min

  • Tanner - 7 years ago

    Then they should shorten NFL , NBA airing to 30 hr so they don't take up all of the days broadcast, so they don't interrupt/interfere with other shows like nhra drag racing, and monster energy supercross, I'd even lengthen nhra time to show all the burn outs , interviews, and PRO STOCK .

  • Bob sanders - 7 years ago

    With the sound police everywhere racing at night will be a huge problem, as we all know it is not about who was there first it is about political correctness. To run a sportsman show and pro categories takes a lot of time and at today's level of competition prepping a car in pro categories is a brutal affair. As for any racer on any budget getting less track time just costs more for testing. So you can only shorten an event one of two ways fewer cars or less track time, those with the largest commitment are the losses.

  • Don decker - 7 years ago

    What they need to do is cut Schumacher back a view cars so other people would be able to compete with the rest. Of the classes right now he controls the NHRA and no one else can compete

  • Jeff Corlett - 7 years ago

    It did well in the early stages of this season because it was on the non-cable FOX, Not FS1. Technology is changing and a LOT of people don't have cable anymore for good $$$ reasons. I LOVE the NHRA but will not pay extortion money to the cable companies. I can remember Snake Prudomme and Don Garlits racing in person when I was a kid. Later, I met John Force in the pits in Denver. I owned hotwheels funny cars of the Snake and the Mongoose, with lift up bodies, when I was a kid. Those were awesome and I wish I still had them. The solution is simple...put the NHRA back on a network station. All I see on network TV on the weekends is golf now. Golf? Go play it, not watch it on TV.

  • Ed Self - 7 years ago

    Hey since FS1 took over the drags have been great atless they show most of the races ESPN cut the drags out or show them too late or not show them at all even if they say coming up the drags would not come on so why make time when most of the time it was late or did not show. FS1 blows ESPN out it might take some time to get the TV fan back because of ESPN. I been a fan of NHRA drags for over 35 years and FS1 has been the best yet maybe next year NHRA will have more 4 lane racing.Thanks Guys didn't think they be on TV any more. do you think maybe add 3 more races on the western swing that way the points are even closer for the little guy racing that has 4 cars or less not like DSR flooding the races with 8 cars hold the owers to 4 cars . It turns people race fans off when teams race teams by the same owner .

  • Alonzo Brown IV - 7 years ago

    I say bring back 1320ft and night qualifing

  • Bryan Gill - 7 years ago

    I witnessed the inception of Pro Stock in 1970 at the Winternationals in Pomona, CA, and being 59 years old, since that time it had always been my favorite class, until about the past decade. Sadly, unfortunately I rarely even tune in to an NHRA event if at all! They have ruined the sport by allowing to many classes that the average spectator cannot relate to.

    My advice would be to get rid of Pro Stock in its current configuration! No one can relate to those cars anymore, they're nothing but gasoline powered funny cars, complete with a fiberglass body’s. I believe that NHRA should go back to the formula that started the class, “factory hot rods.’ That almost every manufacturer makes a muscle car, Camaro, Challenger and Mustang. Why not allow the fans to identify with something that we can relate to (and buy)? I can’t go to the dealership and buy anything with a 500-cubic inch engine in a four-door fiberglass homogenized hand built one off body!

    The answer to the problem is right beneath their noses. Go back to production based cars off the assembly lines from GM, Chrysler and Ford respectively with supercharged fuel injection engines. Built basically as a legal super stock chassis roll cage and back half, with a 7.50 certification, parachute, wheelie bars, manual transmissions…

    With all the manufactures, well represented, I think the fans would return and watch the cars run that we all could relate to and still buy at the dealership, just like the 1970 all over again, but a lot quicker!

  • brian Leschinski - 7 years ago

    Friday night qualifying rocks!, at any track. I was going to Joliet for years when I lived in IL, and the crowd definitely was smaller on Sundays the past three years. Ticket prices were decent as long as you pre-order them and you are a member of NHRA. Now throw in parking, t-shirts, food(at the track, and after the race), and you can drop a decent buck. I say leave things the way they are, bring back 1320ft. racing, do not count 1000ft. racing records, and tell "The Don" to ease his grip on the sport and spread some of his sponsors to other teams, so its not always DSR on the podium.

  • Sherm919 - 7 years ago

    If I was in the New Presidents shoes I would seriously take a look at moving final rounds to Saturday and move Qualifying up a day. Most teams arrive a couple days early for the most part anyways on their schedules. I know tradition matters to a lot of fans, but time also matters to fans now and NHRA would end up with a lot more sales if they moved the Final rounds to Saturday.

  • nick the greek3 - 7 years ago

    I was raised in pomona, I have been drag racing since 1963... they have priced all of us out...I go to bakersfield for half the price and get to experience racing , how it started

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