{"id":61565,"date":"2019-04-17T12:30:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T19:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=61565"},"modified":"2019-04-17T12:30:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T19:30:39","slug":"nhra-drag-racers-meet-with-congress-to-discuss-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/nhra-drag-racers-meet-with-congress-to-discuss-future\/","title":{"rendered":"NHRA Drag Racers Meet with Congress to Discuss Future"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NHRA drivers, Steve Torrence and Clay Millican joined NHRA vice president of track management & operations, Kasey Coler in Washington D.C. this week to meet with congressional offices representing racing communities all around the country. As part of the National Motorsports Coalition, Torrence, Millican and Coler urged lawmakers to take action to ensure the motorsports industry has the tax certainty it needs to to focus on progressing long-term investments in their facilities.<\/div>\n
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Several racers joined the National Motorsports Coalition in visiting with a\u00a0 group of nearly 200 Congressional members along with their staff, including: Trent Hindman (IMSA); Mario Andretti (IndyCar); Kyle Busch, Austin Cindric, Brad Keselowski and Joey Logano (NASCAR); and Tracey Gardiner and Samantha Tan (USAC).\u00a0 ACCUS President George Silbermann and Representatives Mike Thompson, Bill Posey and Richard Hudson all spoke regarding the matters.<\/div>\n
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\u201cWe spent a lot of time today talking to different congressmen and women, trying to benefit motorsports across the nation, working on tax exemptions and rebates to allow tracks to make improvements and adjustments to their facilities to help the health and attendance of not only NHRA but all motorsports,\u201d said Torrence. \u201cI\u2019ve really enjoyed the experience and hope to come back. I\u2019m honored and humbled to get to represent NHRA.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u201cAs it turns out, people in D.C. are interested in motorsports,\u201d said Millican. \u201cThe reason we\u2019re here is pretty important. While the majority of sports are funded by cities, in the case of drag racing, it\u2019s usually individuals or corporations. We\u2019ve always got to look out for the track owner because if we don\u2019t have tracks, we don\u2019t have racing. These facilities should be treated the same as the stick and ball sports.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NHRA drivers, Steve Torrence and Clay Millican joined NHRA vice president of track management & operations, Kasey Coler in Washington D.C. this week to meet with congressional offices representing racing communities all around the country. <\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":61567,"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":[1082,3470],"tags":[6783,6782,6780,41,7,3735,6781],"class_list":["post-61565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","category-news","tag-coler","tag-millican","tag-national-motorsports-coalition","tag-news","tag-nhra","tag-press-releases","tag-torrence"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/it-up-for.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-g0Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61565","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61568,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61565\/revisions\/61568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}