{"id":105086,"date":"2026-03-06T09:02:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=105086"},"modified":"2026-03-06T12:00:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T20:00:27","slug":"ihras-personnel-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/ihras-personnel-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"IHRAs Personnel Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"
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IHRA\u2019s 2025 dragstrip acquisitions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Is the International Hot Rod Association (IHRA)<\/a><\/strong> moving too quickly in its efforts to remake straight-line and sportsman racing? New owner Darryl Cuttell has gone out of his way to purchase tracks and attract circuits to his domain (there are more than 100 tracks under IHRA\u2019s umbrella), add series both on land and sea, and hire some of the most widely known promotional professionals in the business.<\/p>\n

Read More: IHRA Touts Accident Coverage, More than 110 Tracks Under its Umbrella<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Cuttell, apparently, is adept at both hiring and firing. He started his merry-go-round of appointees with former NHRA announcer and historian Alan Reinhart, who was hired as VP of Racing Operations and fired within weeks. Acquiring the services of Drag Illustrated<\/strong> ad maven Brett Underwood seemed a logical choice, as did hiring Scott \u201cWoody\u201d Woodruff\u00a0 as COO of the organization. This week, both of these estimable characters were back on the street.<\/p>\n

All of this action brings up the question of whether Cuttell and his organization are growing too quickly and expanding too rapidly? After ridding the group of Woodruff\u2019s services, he promoted Doug Foley Jr. as COO. Foley\u2019s dad is on-site for this weekend\u2019s 57th annual Amalie Motor Oil Gatornationals, the start of the National Hot Rod Association\u2019s (NHRA) 75th anniversary season. The elder Foley intends to race in both series this year and was, himself, surprised by the organization\u2019s rapid change of personnel.<\/p>\n

In speaking with IHRA president Leah Martin, competitionplus.com<\/a><\/strong> learned: \u201cOften you don\u2019t finish the race with the same team you start with. As IHRA continues to grow, we are building a team focused on transforming and strengthening the sport for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The IHRA is moving quickly, both in track acquisition and in staff turnover. Regardless, all eyes in the drag racing world are on the organization.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":104191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3470,5029],"tags":[4799,13136],"class_list":["post-105086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-racing","tag-ihra","tag-scott-woodruff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IHRA-2025-dragstrip-acquisitions-copy.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-rkW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105086"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105089,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105086\/revisions\/105089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}