BangShift.com All American Fuel Dragsters Association To Vote On Boycott Of Hot Rod Reunion

(Shots by Darr Hawthorne) • With a history range of Nostalgia Top rated Gasoline Dragsters slated to look at NHRA’s Holley Very hot Rod Reunion in Bowling Inexperienced, KY, the Assoc. will vote this 7 days on a attainable boycott of the June NHRA Heritage Collection function.

Incredibly, the conflict and proposed boycott is not over the common grievance: a absence of purse funds — it is about NHRA’s incapability to take a windfall of outdoors sponsorship towards an increased purse and a more substantial subject.“It breaks my heart that it has occur to this with NHRA,” Bob McLennan, President of AAFD, mentioned. “We have presented to double the Leading Gas Dragsters for this race, and NHRA desires no section of it. We have questioned for a 16-car ladder as opposed to the existing 8-car or truck ladder. We have even brought in a personal sponsor to offset their expenditures, but NHRA has drawn a line in the sand, and they will not change the event construction to allow for more cash and much more autos.”

All American Fuel Dragsters’ impetus to double the selection of nitro-dragsters is based on Nostalgia Top Fuel’s progress as a course as very well as a lack of participation from the AA/Humorous Autos at Bowling Environmentally friendly. Each individual 12 months a race admirer could count the Humorous Auto entries on a person hand — and whose further more participation is in doubt simply because recent Holley Sizzling Rod Reunion drew as few as 3 nitro Funny Car groups.

“To offset any of NHRA’s expenditures, (Midwestern Top rated Gasoline racer) Jimi Young brought in Personalized Floaters for an further 5 figures in purse revenue,” McLennan described. “This celebration benefits the NHRA Museum — it’s their greatest fundraiser of the yr. It is just thoughts-boggling that NHRA will not help our exertion to place on a much better demonstrate and aid finance their Museum.”

Nonetheless, this is a tough tablet for McLennan, whose father, Jim McLennan, was inducted into the NHRA Hall of Fame in 1991, the second class of inductees. “With our family’s history with NHRA, you’d imagine they would know we are seeking to benefit the Museum’s bottom line and make this a large achievement,” McLennan stated. “We want this to be a acquire-acquire.” mentioned McLennan, he is nevertheless open to building points function, but with teams voting imminent and the sentiment of the Top rated Gasoline racers practically unanimous in their viewpoint, the possibility of even an 8-car Prime Gasoline Eliminator for the Holley Sizzling Rod Reunion in Bowling Environmentally friendly doesn’t glimpse promising.