Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The popularity of the class evolved into a category of drag racing with hundreds of cars and drivers competing in Championship series, and large nostalgia drag racing events. The spirit of NSS drag racing has the same models of cars that raced Super Stock between 1959 and 1969—but with certain safety equipment updates. [1]
Nostalgia drag racing is a form of drag racing that uses cars from earlier eras of drag racing, as well as cars built to fit the guidelines of earlier eras using parts that would have been available in that era. The cars raced are a mixture between restored originals, while others are re-creations of older cars. [1]
NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series: Bradenton Motorsports Park: Bradenton: Florida: 1974: Concrete: 1/4 mile: Brainerd International Raceway: Brainerd: Minnesota: 1969: Asphalt: 1/4 mile: NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series: Bremerton Raceway
In 2010, the NHRA still owned the facility. The NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series and the NMRA hold events at NTR. NTR also holds events such as the Buick Nationals, the Mopar Nationals, and the Night of Thunder, which features jet-cars and wheelstanders. NTR has also hosted the NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion and Super Chevy Shows' in the past.
The Famoso Bakersfield Raceway still hosts the March Meet but it is now strictly a "nostalgia drag racing" event. In the 2000s, "Saturday Nitro" events featured Fuel altereds then switched to nostalgia funny cars around 2010. After a driver died in an on-track hit on the guardrail, they stopped hosting these non-sanctioned events.
Race features bracket cars, jet cars and Nostalgia Funny Cars, however Bob Motz's jet truck steals the show. Four National records are set at the 28th annual Auto-Plus NHRA Nationals: Antron Brown , Top Fuel E.T. 3.701; Jack Beckman , Funny Car E.T. 3.986 and miles-per-hour 320.58; Andrew Hines , Pro Stock Motorcycle E.T. 6.728.
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
Pacers Auto, Inc.® was a popular, record-setting drag racing team in the early 1950s and 1960s. Based in Oceanside , New York on Long Island , The Pacers' " Snizek & Dodge Racing Team " made up of co-owners George Snizek as driver, and Charlie Dodge as tuner, were favored by fans and feared by competitors.