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1993 NHRA Winston Drag Racing Schedule Date Race Site Winners Top Fuel Funny Car Pro Stock Pro Stock Motorcycle February 4–7 (original weekend) / 12-13 (rescheduled weekend) Chief Auto Parts Winternationals: Pomona, California: Joe Amato John Force Warren Johnson N/A February 23–26 Motorcraft Ford Nationals: Phoenix, Ariz. Eddie Hill Cruz ...
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.
Top Fuel (class designation: AA/D top fuel dragster) and Fuel Funny Car (class designation: AA/FC top fuel coupe) have recently been limited to a 1,000-foot (300 m) track, instead of the historic 1/4 mile [1,320 feet (402 m)], as a means to limit top speeds and increase safety (there had been a number of engine explosions at or near 300 mph ...
McEwen solved his Corvette funny car's stability problems by adding tip fences to the rear spoiler. [15] His “gorgeous” 1957 Chevy replica was built as a tribute to the iconic Chevrolet. It was run as an NHRA exhibition vehicle and was responsible for creating Nostalgia Funny Car, even though the car would not (now) be legal in that class. [16]
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.
Nostalgia drag racing started in California in 1981 when old racers started using their front-engine "slingshot" dragsters, funny cars and Super Stockers to race again at Fremont drag strip also known as Baylands raceway park where the N.D.R.A. "nostalgia drag racing association" was formed by Tom Prufer along with partners Brian Burnett & Ken ...
2024 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series Schedule [1] Date Race Site TV Winners Top Fuel Funny Car Pro Stock Pro Stock Motorcycle Mar 7-10 Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals TFCO: Gainesville Raceway Gainesville, FL FS1 Shawn Langdon (1) J.R. Todd (1) Erica Enders (1) Gaige Herrera (1) Mar 21-24 Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals
The track also hosts annual drag racing special events for import cars and nostalgia drag racers. For many years the track has also held major events featuring match racing between nitromethane and alcohol-powered funny cars, (Funny Cars Under The Stars), and jet-powered dragsters and funny cars (Jet Cars Under The Stars)