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The first Detroit Autorama was held at the University of Detroit Memorial Building on January 31 and February 1, 1953. [7] It featured only 40 cars, and was hosted by members of the Michigan Hot Rod Association (MHRA), which was created only a year before to "organize small local clubs into one unified body that could raise the money needed to pull drag racing off the streets and into a safe ...
The cars feature a purpose-built chassis design specifically for dirt late model racing. With many chassis builders within the sport, chassis design and components are always employing new innovation and technology. The cars are powered by aluminum-head V8 engines (usually ranging between 400c.i. & 430c.i.) that produce over 800 horsepower. [5]
Stock Car Pro Series: Scoring system used for championship rounds with dual races. Points are awarded for each race at an event to the driver/s of a car that completed at least 75% of the race distance and was running at the completion of the race. 12 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 - - - - - - - - - 2014: 2016: Stock Car Pro Series: Scoring system used ...
Allen Johnson's Mopar Dodge Avenger Pro Stock. Pro stock is a class of drag racing featuring "factory hot rods".The class is often described as "all motor", due to the cars not using any form of forced induction such as turbocharging or supercharging, or other enhancements, like nitrous oxide, along with regulations governing the modifications allowed to the engines and the types of bodies used.
Top Fuel was the first category, with Funny Cars added in 1966, Pro Stock four years later and Pro Stock Motorcycles in 1987. Both Top Fuel and Funny Cars regularly see top speeds in excess of 300 miles per hour (480 km/h) today, and one thousand foot times anywhere from 3.70 to 4 seconds.
Pro Street, also known as a back half or tubbed car, is a style of street-legal custom car popular in the 1980s, usually built to imitate a pro stock class race car. Pro Street cars are close in appearance to cars used in drag racing while remaining street-legal and with a full interior. Cars of this type typically feature two of the following ...
The 2019 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Season was announced on July 25, 2018. [1]It was the 64th season of the National Hot Rod Association's top drag racing competition. . There were 24 Top Fuel and Funny Car events, 22 Pro Stock events (18 Championship NHRA Formula and 4 Non-Championship Mountain Motor Formula), and 16 Pro Stock Motorcycle e
51 career NHRA wins (49 in Pro Stock as well as 2 in the Sportsman Classes) Has a career best E.T. of 6.455 seconds, and a career best speed of 215.17 miles per hour (346.28 km/h) With the Jesel Land Speed/Summit Racing Team, Jason Broke the A/Modified Production Speed Record of 191 mph with an impressive 225.246 mph at Bonneville Flats in 2012