Just Wondering... How much longer can or will the members of the Real Pro Mod group who (as much as the NHRA will allow) control the NHRA Pro Mod series continue to not only guarantee the NHRA a paid sponsorship for each of their races but also pay the NHRA a fee to remain a support class to the NHRA Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock and Pro Stock Bike pro classes?

Just Wondering... Will Orlando Speed World, which has been an NHRA-sanctioned track for as long as I can remember, make the change over to IHRA and get a IHRA Nitro Jam and a points meet? Very reliable sources with both sanctioning bodies say that if that deal hasn’t already been signed it will be very soon. I hear the new management at Orlando is going to add 15,000 seats to the approximate 5,000 permanent seats currently in place. Evidently a race or two at Orlando will replace the PBR and Bradenton, Fla., races on the IHRA circuit. Interestingly, neither of those two tracks have seating for 10,000 fans.

Just Wondering... With less than a half-second separating the number 1 and 32 qualifiers in the ever growing NHRA Top Dragster and Top Sportsman classes where a low 6-second car is mandatory these days, why not pick a couple of national events a year where those cars would still qualify above the 6.0 minimum in Top Dragster but instead of bracket racing to determine a winner run a 32-car, heads-up, sportsman ladder to determine the winner? That might actually make those classes even more popular with racers and fans than they are now.

Just Wondering... As long as the NHRA is forcing their Pro Stock competitors into so many changes in the engine and drivetrain for the 2016 season, why not add one more and make any new NHRA Pro Stockers be built using stock Detroit body panels but allow them to retain the current fiberglass/carbon fiber?

Just Wondering... Does anyone at the sanctioning bodies actually have a VP whose job it is to vet potential sponsor for their ability to actually pay what they promise? There have been several instances in the last couple of years in both the NHRA and IHRA where so-called “major sponsors” didn’t turn out to have the dough for the show!

Just Wondering... Is the nominal price of a reserved seat ticket to an NHRA national event in 2015 higher, lower, or the same as the same ticket in 1995 or 2005?

Just Wondering... Will the NHRA-controlled annual California Hot Rod Reunion race at Bakersfield eventually price itself out of being the huge success it has been up to now? I think it is a possibility. A half-dozen Midwest-based AA/FD and AA/FC teams have told me that the cost of entry fees, crew passes, and car and motorhome passes alone makes going to the CHRR is so expensive they simply can’t afford a trip that is going to cost them $5,000 or more in airline tickets, fuel, food and lodging before they pull the rig out of the driveway to drive 1,500 miles one way.

Just Wondering...If an NHRA pro driver (especially one driving a Top Fuel or Funny Car) participated in a street race resulting in very high-speed street racing and a crash and it went viral like the Sheikh Khalid al Thani fiasco, how long would he retain a competition license? What is the difference between that driver and the ones featured on the reality street racing TV series that NHRA supposedly abhors? Someone’s license should be revoked!