How did SFX come into the picture?
Bader: Actually Aaron Polburn and myself have a fairly long relationship with some of the management people in SFX, specifically Charlie Mancuso, whom Aaron and myself dealt with when Aaron was promoting monster truck racing. He was involved with SFX buying that property from Aaron. When I purchased IHRA in 1997 some of the SFX people approached me about getting involved in some way with IHRA. I told them at that time I didn’t have any interest in sharing IHRA with anyone. Each year since then they have asked me again about involvement. This year I said yes. DRO: What changed your mind? Bader: Well it was several things. I bought Norwalk when I was 27 years old. It took me 30 years of hard work to make it what it is today. I came to the conclusion recently that it was probably going to take 30 years to make IHRA as successful as I wanted it to be. I decided I didn’t want to work until I was 80 years old to accomplish with IHRA what I did with Norwalk. So I let my friends at SFX know th
