NOPI Motorsports Cancels all 08 events

NOPI Motorsports Cancels all 08 events

this sucks i wes going to take my car for the first time DAMMM!!

It is with great regret that NOPI Motorsports, LLC has suspended operations for the summer and fall 2008. This will include NOPI Drag Racing Series, NOPI Drift Series and the NOPI NATIONALS Motorsports Supershow. The company is undergoing an organizational restructuring in light of severe adverse affects of a disappointing spring season. The economy and unfavorable weather resulted in underperformance of all spring events. Michael Meyers, president of NOPI Motorsports, reports that NOPI Motorsports is working with its clients and sponsors to minimize the uncertainty going forward. This is a reflection of the economic times in which we currently live. The countrywide economic and industry downturn has caused a slowdown and tightening of belts. This affects everyone and companies, at all levels, and NOPI Motorsports is no different.



We understand the position this puts everyone in and we hope you can find in your heart to work with us through this terrible time. All of you are our friends and we have felt for many years that we were all a big family.



NOPI Motorsports hates this more than anyone as the many years of hard work, tradition and an industry we helped to shape would come to this.



Please watch nopi.com for future announcements.

Look on the bright side.... you'll have some more time to prep your car and enter next year

I'm sure you'd do very well with all the mods you've done!

totally not surprised. First, it was the consolidation and elimination of a bunch of classes in NDRA. Then, they pretty much stopped updating the website. After that they started the 'consolidation' with NHRA though I dunno where that stands now.

Import drag racing is dying. It sucks.

Okay ... maybe I'm the only one who is okay with this. I hated watching it on TV ... ugh so annoying...a bunch of tools on there too ...sorry JMHO

The show did suck. It really seemed to only capture the Lifestyle portion of the events.

That was another big beef lots of folks had with NDRA. I mean shit, they pay more attention to the bikini contests and Xbox huts than the actual racing, lol. There were big jokes about it being a car show that just happened to have a race at it.

you can only look at sub par cars for so long year after year. watching 17 second runs over and over again gets old also. sure there is the class of 7 or 8 second cars, but there is not as many.

i wonder what all the nopi models will do now..

That was another big issue too. If you are financially able to campaign a single car and merely show up to every race, you could win your class. The biggest classes were always bracket 14/Bracket 15 too. The heads up sportsmans got to the point that the same 2-3 folks who were able to make every race were merely jockeying in position with the semis and finals. A privateer with a real job and no sponsors just couldn't compete. NDRA started as a place where almost anyone could build a fast car and have a decent showing. It's ending as something akin to the import version of the Powerade Drag series....only with fewer cars, lol.