{"id":21,"date":"2009-07-01T17:25:18","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T17:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/2009\/07\/01\/nhra-increases-membership-fees\/"},"modified":"2010-02-04T16:01:19","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T00:01:19","slug":"nhra-increases-membership-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/2009\/07\/01\/nhra-increases-membership-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"NHRA Increases Membership Fees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update 1 July 2009<\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well sports fans, the other shoe has dropped !\u00a0\u00a0Last year to renew my competition number it was $25.\u00a0 This year it is $50 for one year.\u00a0 Couple that with the membership fee of $69 – required for a competition number<\/span> – it now costs $119 annually to have a NHRA competition\u00a0number. Few of you probably remember the days when a NHRA competition number was a minimal fee, with no membership required !<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sorry, but I just don’t believe the NHRA is subsidizing the Sportsman racer to keep our local bracket racing program going. In fact I believe it is the Sportsman racer that is keeping NHRA afloat through these tough economic times!
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\nRoger Young<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

18 Mar 2009: I just got my NHRA membership renewal, and those fees have increased from $64 in 2008, to $69 today.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So much for NHRA holding down the costs to their members. While\u00a0five bucks doesn’t sound like much, it is over a 7% increase for being allowed to be a member of NHRA.\u00a0 Multiply that by the thousands of members across the nation and that is a significant amount of revenue to NHRA, provided their membership hasn’t been shrinking.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Your thoughts?
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Roger Young<\/em>
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NHRA announces changes to competition fees<\/strong><\/span><\/a> <\/span>– NHRA<\/em> – 8 Apr 09
\nWe attempted to warn you on\u00a0March 18th, now its official, they are raising fees across the board! – Roger Young<\/em>
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Reply from NHRA<\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

27 Apr 09<\/strong><\/p>\n

We appreciate your email and acknowledge your disappointment in the recent announcement. NHRA has seen a dramatic increase in legal costs, insurance costs, and operational costs over the last decade, yet most of these fees have not been raised in more than a decade. NHRA has made every effort to keep fees flat, despite these rising costs. Because of our commitment to sportsman racing, NHRA has funded these rising costs all these years but must pass a portion of these costs on to the sportsman racers. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

We assure you that it was a very difficult decision to raise these fees. In most cases, it represents a $60 annual increase for an individual racer. When amortized over the length of an average schedule, the increase only equates to a few dollars more per event. We understand the economic times we are in as it has a direct impact on all areas of NHRA\u2019s business and, as a result, led to the need to increase fees. These increases will assist us in being able to continue to provide premier racing programs at the national, divisional and local level. In addition, the recent profitability of the organization will allow NHRA to weather the economy we are currently faced with. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Again, we appreciate your note and wanted you to know that it was read and acknowledged.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Jerry Archambeault<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

NHRA<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Related articles<\/span>:
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Up Front: The Mess That Is The National Hot Rod Association<\/strong><\/span><\/a> by Jon Asher – Torco Racing Fuel’s Competition Plus.com<\/em> – August 24, 2009<\/strong>
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“…Despite a very obvious decline in Sportsman entries at the national events as well as some Lucas Oil points meets, the NHRA further endeared themselves to their base by announcing an increase in fees for those classes in early April of this year.\u00a0 That produced a firestorm of anger, which was dutifully reported by this and other publications \u2013 and completely ignored by the NHRA.\u00a0 It would have been humorous had the increases not been so ill-conceived and poorly timed.\u00a0 It was as if the organization was saying, ‘We giveth with the right hand, and taketh away with the left.’<\/em>\u00a0 In other words, we\u2019ll provide some discount tickets to the national events (which we applaud the organization for having done), but make up for those losses by forcing our most loyal customers to make up the difference.\u00a0 If anyone doubts that, despite public pronouncements to the contrary, NHRA\u2019s management doesn\u2019t sometimes operate under the unspoken concept of ‘We can do anything we want to the Sportsman because they\u2019re not only powerless, they\u2019ll do anything to race,’<\/em> you simply haven\u2019t been paying attention.\u00a0 Some Sportsman are fighting back the only way they can \u2013 be declining to enter NHRA national events…”
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Update 1 July 2009: Well sports fans, the other shoe has dropped !\u00a0\u00a0Last year to renew my competition number it was $25.\u00a0 This year it is $50 for one year.\u00a0 Couple that with the membership fee of $69 – required … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhra-increases-membership-fees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestvets.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}