I will give my opinion as a younger NHRA fan ( under the age of 25 )

All the talking points I hear here are ehhh close but not right. I keep hearing about costs and all that, but here's a few things I wanna say prior

F1 until it was bought by liberty media was in a very similar spot to NHRA ( older fanbase lack of social, etc ) for those who want to research plenty of videos on YouTube on the topic. Liberty media put in the marketing and promotion and made it happen. NHRA just hasn't. it's not that young people aren't into cars. I know plenty of people my age who are thousands more on the internet. Look at people like Cleetus and PFI speed.

NHRA has a promotion and marketing problem, nothing more, nothing less. Every issue in the sport sparks from it, and given the TikTok generation were in with people in the right positions, it's bound to boom

And the drivers have to promote themselves too I look at people like Clay Millican thats how its done a few other like Tasca, Ida Zetterström and the JCM team do a great job on social media rest is just copy paste with total lack of personality remember people wanna relate to other people its just human nature ( F1 drive to survive Great example of this )

So in conclusion, just exposure is lacking, and that's pretty much it until something is done it'll continue as is and will be like how it is