Growing up, it was my favorite. I waited with anxiety for the local track to open, and found it exciting hitting all the tracks for their annual national events - Columbus, Montreal, Englishtown.

Being invited to the annual pre-Nationals test session at Indy the last 4 years, I truly saw how dysfunctional management is in the NHRA. All that work that Wally Parks did, unraveled for the pure greed and condescending attitude by todays management.

Give me PDRA, NEOPM, EOPM, or any Duck production, any day of the week. NHRA has lost it with me.

John Venditti

Toronto, Ontario

Used to attend Gatornationals for 34 years in a row. All 3 days every year. Stopped going about 6 years ago. I am 63 years old. Took both my sons, who were 16-18 years old, once but they never showed interest like I did at that age. They liked it but never asked about going back. Interestingly, NHRA never contacted me to try and get me back after giving up reserved seats after all that time.

Never thought I would say this, but it became stale. Qualifying on Saturday was nothing more than test sessions for the nitro cars. Back in the day 25 pro cars or more would show up to try and make the show.

Actually went to 12 Hours of Sebring in 2011 and 2012 and really enjoyed it as I never could make it as it was always the same weekend in March.

Gators became the same thing every year: Same winners; nothing new to peak my interest. It was a 5-hour trip from South Florida one way.

Not a fan of 1,000-foot racing. Up to this year I could drive 60 minutes to PBIR and catch the Nitro Spring Training in late January for 25 bucks. That took care of my nitro fix.

FYI: I am flying up to Milwaukee in June for Indy car race at Road America. I have been attending Classic 24 Hours of Daytona for 2 years and will do the same for classic 12 Hours of Sebring in November this year.

This is 264 words. Sorry.

Dave Schopp

In response to your question posed on Facebook about being a fan of drag racing, but not attending NHRA events I could give you a multitude of reasons. First, the cost. I’m married and there are 6 members of my family and for us just to enter the race track would cost $300. (I can go to a PDRA race for half the cost).

Second, there is no longer any parity in the sport…if you’re not a Force or Schumacher you get no publicity, you don’t have a fair chance at winning a race (funding) and to be quite frank it’s too predictable. Force or Schumacher have won 66% of the Top Fuel Championships since 2000 and 86% of Funny Car. It’s like shooting myself in the foot…I know how it’s going to turn out!

I personally have friends that drive professionally (or work for teams) and to see that there is never any mention of them through NHRA.com, FS1 telecast or National Dragster is pretty discouraging. We need more Scott Palmer’s, T.J. Zizzo’s, John Hale’s, Tim Wilkerson’s and Larry Morgan’s to better NHRA.

Gary Wilson

Simply put, only a handful of tracks I have been to have a "professional" feel to them. Parking is a pain in the ass, the food is way overpriced and way under quality, crowds are getting to the point that it feels unsafe to bring children to it, the PA systems are such poor quality you can't understand what they are saying most of the time and everyone keeps asking "what did they say"? The bathrooms are usually pretty disgusting to where I wouldn't dare take my wife to any event.

So compare that to watching it at home and there IS no comparison. It used to be really enjoyable to go to events, especially to Norwalk and National Trail, both excellent tracks. But last few times attending events, just shaking my head that I spent a few hundred dollars to see what I could at home -- in a lot more comfort.

Domenic Petruso