[Old Hippie]

After sending a ton of email and making a lot of phone calls to NSS drivers -- I couldn't get near enough people to commit to attend the first AHRA event to warrant them wanting to have an eliminations race this year. All said that they felt like the AHRA and NSS would be a good fit -- but most had a variety of reasons why they wouldn't be attending.

The deal with the AHRA was this year is their "Reunion Tour" to iron out wrinkles and see what classes to include -- and 2011 will be the first Championship year.

The CEO is Troy Moe, and he offered to have trophy races for NSS this year (because of the expected low number) and to maybe include the class next year. I appear to be the wrong person to be handling this -- so if anyone else wants to pick it up from here -- go to the AHRA site for Troy's contact information. I'm backing out with trying to be the one to see the AHRA includes NSS. I found myself in the middle of a Mexican Standoff, where neither side was really willing to commit to make this happen without the other side making the first big move.

I thought the AHRA would be a good fit, as it would ultimately have meant regional championships, and less travel. For me, the only other act in town has the closet track being over 850 miles and most tracks closer to 1400-1600 miles -- so I was very interest.

The NMCA appears like it will be the only act in town for a NSS Championship series of Class racing -- and while it is very expensive to travel so far to every race -- Dallas and I will again give it a shot for 2010.