Date Posted:12:54:08 12/04/06 Mon Author:Bre Author Host/IP: client-216-176-81-143.consolidated.net / 216.176.81.143 Subject: Re: Here we go again!!! In reply to:
Lanny Harvey - Reg. 5 chair
's message, "Here we go again!!!" on 10:50:18 12/04/06 Mon
>One last time I will put a message on this board. Why
>the last time? Because everytime one of 'US' Board
>Members puts a message on this board we get nothing
>but bad mouthed but I am a glutton for punishment and
>will do it "one more time".
>
>1. You people all have these great ideas but will you
>run for office so you can help implement the idea. NO
>2. When your ideas are put in the form of a rule
>proposal, YOUR rules committee rep votes it down at
>the rules meeting. Again, when YOUR rules rep has a
>meeting to go over rules proposals, YOU are too busy
>to attend and/or voice your opinion and vote.
>Remember we have for the last several years done our
>best to vote like YOUR rules committee votes. Like
>Joe Smiley said below, there were several rule
>proposals to combine the A & Multi Classes. Everyone
>is too darn selfish as to sit back and look at the
>proposals. IF you would combine the classes and
>REDUCE the wings size, REDUCE the tire width, MAKE
>them run harder tires where they aren't hooked down so
>much,(See Bill Merediths post) believe me the two
>motors would be very equal. The multis couldn't get
>all their power to the ground while the A's wouldn't
>be spinning so much and they would be equal and the
>setup and driver would be much more important. There
>wouldn't be as many rubber down tracks as there are
>with softer tires. Granted it was a little smaller
>track than most BUT my car set fast time at the
>Nationals with a STOCK motor with the exception of
>running on methanol and I feel that it would have run
>very well in the feature if a couple of 1/4" bolts
>hadn't broken. Notice I did not say it would have won
>it but we were running second when they broke.
>3. You people keep saying we don't want to change the
>NMMA BUT you do not stop and consider that we have
>been trying to do what YOUR rules committee tells us
>to do. We DO want to change. YOU need to go to your
>local meetings, YOU need to run for office so changes
>CAN be made. YOU need to go to your Region meetings
>to see that YOUR local rep is voting as YOU want
>him/her to. QUIT blaming the board for EVERYTHING and
>sit back and look at the WHOLE picture. Take some of
>the blame for the way things have been run because of
>YOUR lack of caring until everything goes against you.
>
>I know I will be bashed for this post and the board
>will still be blamed for everything but believe me we
>want the NMMA to succeed. Start now and get a local
>rep to come to the spring meeting. Have that person
>bring a list of people, signed individually, with
>proposals.(Which means you will have to have a meeting
>AND have people attend it) If Pat won't give them
>time to talk, I will resign my position on the board.
>I know he will tho.
There won't be any bashing at all, at least not from me. The only problem with combining the two is that wouldn't it drive an even bigger gap in between the NMMA and everyone else? I thought that was one of the big problems we were trying to solve. I would be more than happy to help out in any way possible, but if we are going to try and get tracks back shouldn't we try to get the rules closer to other sanctioning bodies so driver's could run either one they wanted and not have to spend thousand's to do it. I would be more than happy to sit down anywhere (within reason) and try to figure this out. I will stick my neck out there and try with no fear of being verbally bashed. I think the problem is more about the fact that there is no points fund for the top ten and lack of promotion for the sport. I said in an earlier post that I think the "pitstop" should go away and distribute that money to the tracks to advertise with. If the rules were simplified, followed religiously, and have a set-up for allowing outlaw driver's to race without having to join it would go a long way in getting this orginization back on it's feet. If I can help in any way let me know.
