Now that I have shot my mouth off I am going tell you speaking plainly again if I may, just what I would do were I the Imperious Director in Control?

As the Imperious Director in Control I will receive a generous financial package, however it will not be as generous as my predecessor. I will be taking a $300,000.00 a year cut over my predecessor. That will leave a paltry $400,000.00 annual income, but somehow my family will manage.

It is only fair that in time like this that the board takes similar cuts.

After all, it is for the future of this sport of ours.

1. Until further notice all fuel cars will run on one magneto. This move will answer a multitude of issues regarding fuel volumes, percentages, speed, current costs, etc. In addition, beginning in the 2009 season, we will undertake to modernize Fuel racing with, first, the advent of electronic management systems, and second, and the establishment of one class of Professional fuel car and one World Champion. This will address a multitude of problems we face regarding car count as well as confusion for potential sponsors.
2. Likewise Pro stock cars will switch to electronic fuel injection, electronic management systems, and an alternative fuel such as ethanol or natural gas.
   This will be the first of a series of changes that will put the sport on a track towards insuring that there will be a sport in the future.
3. The Safety Safari will once again become a complete full time crew that will become responsible for track conditions and safety. A higher standard for track conditions and safety will once again be established. And it will meet several days before the running of each event.
4. A committee of race directors responsible for overseeing each phase of race control (tech, starting line, race surface condition, shutdown area condition and safety, as well as pit conditions and safety) will answer to an overseer.
5. Drivers as well as crew chiefs will be required to sign off on track and shutoff areas prior to each event.
6. Due to the current changes in the political climate, as well as the economic and environmental challenges facing our futures, a complete reorganization of the sport as well as the sanctioning body will begin immediately.
7. The sanctioning body will move operations from Glendora, California to Indianapolis. This will put our operations in a more central location with regards to the majority of the events sanctioned as well as lowering overhead for the sanctioning body, as well as its employees and it is nice along the Wabash this time of year.
8. After a thirty day study of our economic position, we will undertake the following measures beginning with a reduction in spectator entry fees and an increase in prize money for event winners as well as round winners.
9. Beginning in the 2009 season, what we now know as comp classes will once again become gas classes and the weight to cubic inch and engine set back rules will be reinstated. We will qualify the quickest thirty two cars. As well, these classes will once again race heads up, meaning that the first car to the finish line will once again be the winner.
10. We will in the future adopt a more user-friendly approach with regards to potential sponsors, forming equitable agreements with them in regards to their ability to offer goods and services trackside.

As The Imperious Director in Control these are only the first of many changes that will be made to insure the future of Championship Drag Racing, based upon my observations over the last fifty years as a participant in the process from many points of view. Our slice of the discretionary income pie that is devoted to entertainment is not that great, and in order to survive as well as grow in the future we must adapt and overcome.