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

(Photographs by Darr Hawthorne) • With a record number of Nostalgia Top rated Gas Dragsters slated to seem at NHRA’s Holley Warm Rod Reunion in Bowling Eco-friendly, KY, the Assoc. will vote this week on a achievable boycott of the June NHRA Heritage Sequence celebration.

Incredibly, the conflict and proposed boycott isn’t in excess of the standard grievance: a absence of purse dollars — it’s about NHRA’s incapacity to accept a windfall of outside sponsorship toward an improved purse and a even bigger field.“It breaks my heart that it has appear to this with NHRA,” Bob McLennan, President of AAFD, explained. “We have presented to double the Prime Gasoline Dragsters for this race, and NHRA desires no portion of it. We have questioned for a 16-car or truck ladder vs . the current 8-vehicle ladder. We have even brought in a private sponsor to offset their charges, but NHRA has drawn a line in the sand, and they will not change the event framework to allow for for far more dollars and more cars.”

All American Gas Dragsters’ impetus to double the range of nitro-dragsters is based mostly on Nostalgia Leading Fuel’s development as a class as effectively as a lack of participation from the AA/Funny Vehicles at Bowling Green. Every year a race supporter could depend the Humorous Auto entries on one particular hand — and whose additional participation is in doubt for the reason that the latest Holley Hot Rod Reunion drew as couple of as three nitro Funny Auto groups.

“To offset any of NHRA’s prices, (Midwestern Top rated Fuel racer) Jimi Younger introduced in Custom made Floaters for an extra five figures in purse dollars,” McLennan described. “This celebration positive aspects the NHRA Museum — it’s their greatest fundraiser of the yr. It’s just intellect-boggling that NHRA will not assist our exertion to put on a far better present and enable finance their Museum.”

Continue to, this is a difficult tablet for McLennan, whose father, Jim McLennan, was inducted into the NHRA Corridor of Fame in 1991, the 2nd class of inductees. “With our family’s history with NHRA, you’d believe they would know we are striving to profit the Museum’s bottom line and make this a substantial success,” McLennan said. “We want this to be a win-win.” mentioned McLennan, he is continue to open up to creating items operate, but with groups voting imminent and the sentiment of the Top rated Gasoline racers pretty much unanimous in their viewpoint, the risk of even an 8-vehicle Best Fuel Eliminator for the Holley Incredibly hot Rod Reunion in Bowling Inexperienced doesn’t seem promising.