Is the Al Anabi thinking of a move?

Nope, If you read the article in DRO it said that he shiek is pulling some of his money away from Alan Johnson and he is teaming up with Morgan Lucas and Shawn Langdon. Del Worsham is done at AJR and the big question is, what happens to Larry Dixon?

That may be true, but do you pull away from a Championship team that has dominated the Top Fuel ranks unless there is some sort of underlying issues. This has been covered before when someone asked what would happen when the Shiek grew bored with this or as I think happened something of a political nature happened. I think the Royal family of Qatar is pissed at the U.S. because of the way Bin Laden's deal was handled. You haven't seen the Shiek standing on the starting line like you used to since that whole deal went down.

My thoughts on it, to freakin bad...

You're right, he has brought a lot to the table of drag racing especially when no one else was spending any money on the sport the Shiek did and I think it's good that he did. On that same note when he leaves it's going to leave a very large vacuum that isn't going to be filled very easily. There just isn't anyone out there right now that's willing to spend the type of money it takes to run a competitive operation, we've seen more and more of it in the past few years.

When is the last time other than in the past few years that you can remember there being a bye run in any professional class because there weren't enough cars to make a full field. When the brass at NHRA start "calling" racers to get them to show up it's bad.

I've been running S/G, S/C since the late 80's early 90's. When we used to go to either a divisional race or a national race there was always and I mean always 150 to 160 cars entered in each class. You go to one now and there may be 60 to 80 cars, hell the U.S. Nationals didn't have a full quota of cars in any class other than PS Car. People 1) Just don't have the money to spend on fuel and entry fees. 2) Be able to afford to take the time away from work to attend a three to four day race

how can he be pissed at the united states because i know someone in the military that is stationed in his country

Well I watched the last race,, intrigued by the absence of the sheik, and the comments made by Allen Johnson, ok the lack of comments? will there even be an Al-Anabi team anywhere next year?
Rumor has it that Del will be a tuner at another team?
Where does that leave Larry Dixon? With the rumor of the Lucas Team going to AJR?
Should be an interesting couple winter months with just the top fuel teams being turned over.
We haven't even started the talk over funny car?

With the Al-Anabi money again rumored to be cut off indefinitely, Johnson and Dixon are both rumored to be moving to the Morgan Lucas Racing camp next season, where Johnson will tune and Dixon will pilot the Lucas Oil-backed dragster. If true, that would put Shawn Langdon, who has driven for Lucas for the last two seasons, out of a ride. Our source has informed us that the future of Al-Anabi racing across the full spectrum of teams for which they finance may be in trouble, but this information is again unconfirmed.

Kenny Bernstein, one of drag racing’s most iconic drivers and team owners through more than 40 years of involvement with professional drag racing, is rumored to have released his crew and staff at the conclusion of the Auto Club Finals in Pomona on Sunday and has placed his operation for sale, citing a lack of necessary funding to accompany his Copart backing.