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Welcome to the official Facebook page of the NHRA Summit Racing Jr. A twin-turbo-V8-powered rear-drive Toyota Celica becomes the first sport-compact-class car to exceed 200mph. 2012: Limiting Top Fuelers and Funny Cars to a 1000-foot track doesn’t stop the progress of speed: Top Fueler Spencer Massey went 332mph on a 1000-foot track. Don Prudhomme at the 1967 NHRA Springnationals (source: enginelabs.com). For the first time, the NHRA season will kick off on the east coast with the 52nd annual Amalie Motor Oil Gatornationals at Gainesville Raceway on March 12-14. 2005: A new grassroots sanctioning body, the NHRDA (National Hot Rod Diesel Association), is created to push the limits of diesel-powered vehicles. Baldwin will be piloting the Top Fuel dragster owned by her grandfather, Chris Karamesines. Shirley Muldowney (born June 19, 1940), also known professionally as "Cha Cha" and the "First Lady of Drag Racing ", is an American auto racer. 1956: Competition for the NHRA came from the AHRA—the American Hot Rodding Association. AHRA was a small but influential circuit of smaller drag strips across the country, and introduced a variety of crowd-pleasing (and racer-pleasing) changes to the sport that were later absorbed by the larger sanctioning bodies. 1963: NHRA bites the bullet and lets the nitro-powered Top Fuel class back into the fold; they instantly ascend to the top of the high-performance food chain. ABC’s Wide World of Sports covers the US Nationals at Indy, giving drag racing a national audience. The Christmas Tree, a row of countdown lights at the starting line, finally replaces the flagman. And each of the Big Three’s drag racing packages are refined: 409-powered Chevy Impala Z11s, lightweight 427-cube Ford Galaxies and 413-cube Plymouth Belvederes become the scourges of the strip. Drag Racing League ☑️ ‘69 Camaro ☑️ Super Comp Dragster ☑️ ’72 Plymouth ☑️ Super Gas Roadster . 1957: Nitromethane, used as a fuel in top classes, was notorious: it was volatile, and propelled cars to then-unheard-of speeds. Various NHRA member tracks’ insurance companies caught wind; rather than fight the power, the NHRA banned nitro for 1957. The competing AHRA welcomed the nitro-huffing rail jobs with open arms. Meanwhile, the NHRA established its Super Stock Eliminator class, for street cars built to within factory limits. Classes were determined to power-to-weight ratios, and soon Detroit’s engineers were a constant presence at major race events, seeking any competitive advantage. Drag Racing League! 1961: Detroit is quietly building stock-appearing cars, unadvertised in any Pontiac literature and not meant for public consumption, that were designed to be flogged on the quarter-mile. Witness the Super Duty Pontiac Catalina: the stripped coupes arrived at the dealer with a trunk full of high-performance parts and no factory warranty. Apr 19, 2014 - Opening day in Pomona, CA. He was sometimes referred to as the Floridian, before permanently adopting the nickname "Swamp Rat," which also became the name for each new generation of his innovative dragster designs. On the fourth start, Rice outran Voigt with a 10.30/141.95 pass, crossing the finish into drag racing history as the first NHRA national champion in the Dragster class. Parks would run both the NHRA and HOT ROD magazine for the duration of the 1950s. 1913: Wallace Gordon “Wally” Parks was born in Goltry, Oklahoma. His family moved to Southern California in the early ‘20s. You will see his name again in this story. The official NHRA Funny Car quarter-mile speed record became—and still is—Jack Beckman’s 333.66mph. 1954: The first purpose-built, front-engine dragster (rail job, digger, slingshot…) was built by Mickey Thompson. Continue on to reading this issue and look for links to the latest issues, straight to your inbox, as soon as they’re released! The E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Nationals was a unique event in every way: beyond it the first national event ever held at Indianapolis other than the U.S. Nationals, two days of pre-race testing was conducted followed by just two sessions of qualifying. Jun 4, 2014 - Explore Jennifer Mailley's board "》NHRA《" on Pinterest. 1982: NHRA embraces the 500-cubic-inch Pro Stock formula and Don Prudhomme breaks the 250mph barrier in a funny car. Shirley Muldowney and Lucille Lee face off in Columbus in the first all-female Top Fuel final in NHRA history. The first national drag racing meet, sponsored by the National Hot Rod Association was held on an airfield near Great Bend, KS in 1955. It is the 66th season of the National Hot Rod Association's top drag racing competition. 1986: Garlits tops 270mph in his streamlined Swamp Rat XXX. A year later, SRXXX was enshrined in the National Museum of American History. The path from outlaw drag racing to full-on acceptance by the establishment was complete. Continue on to the site and look for links to the latest articles, as soon as they are released. Just north of where the first official drag races were held was where the NHRA held their first event. The first NHRA drag racing event. 7��E�� [y��S"hRhah�. The National Hot Rod Association is a drag racing governing body, which sets rules in drag racing and hosts events all over the United States and Canada. 1999:Top Fuel driver Tony Schumacher shatters the 330mph barrier in Phoenix. In truth it’s a postwar phenomenon, with roots stretching back to dry lakebed racing in Southern California in the 1930s. January 15, 2021 Andreanna Ditton Drag Racing, News, NHRA, Racing 0 The 2021 NHRA season hasn’t even started yet, and the schedule is already changing. 1960: NHRA expands to accept cars with automatic transmissions. The first NHRA World Champ was Buddy Garner, in a Chevy-powered C/Altered Plymouth, who won 24 of 26 events that year. Experimental racers with multiple engines become all the rage, as NHRA racers search new paths to speed and spectacle since nitro went away. Battle of the Imports sees the first front-wheel-drive 9-second pass, a tube-frame Honda Civic driven by Stephan Papadakis. by being the first man out of the 5s, racking up a 4.990 at an IHRA event in Texas. Soon after, Gene Snow ran the first four-second NHRA run. Don Prudhomme lowers the Funny Car ET record to 5.30. It marked … 1951: The National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) is created to “create order from chaos”; the new sanctioning body would also introduce safety and performance standards to legitimize drag racing. Parks would run both the NHRA and. 2006: J.R. Todd becomes the first African-American to win a Top Fuel race. 2015: The calculated power of a Top Fuel engine is now between 8500 and 10,000hp, with 6,000 foot-pounds of torque. Parks starts the Road Runners Club in 1937. Don Garlits, being from Florida, was something of an outsider. 1977: IHRA throws the existing Pro Stock rules out the window and launches the “Mountina Motor” Pro Stock class—stock-bodied cars with 500-cubic-inch V8s in heads-up competition that the spectators ate up. 1947: The Southern California Timing Association (SCTA) is formed, meant to organize this growing band of speed fiends. Wally Parks again helped create the group. Its first sanctioned race, at Pomona, is held April 1953. Krista Baldwin To Attempt NHRA Top Fuel Debut. Not long after, Ed Bergenholtz ran a 9.87 at an unsanctioned event in his full-interior, unibody, front-drive Honda CRX. NHRA dials the nitro back further, to 85 percent, an unpopular move with car owners. A specialty is a particular admiration for the people that build and tune drag racing engines. 1997: Warren Johnson, Kurt’s dad, records Pro Stock’s first 200mph pass. It was 1955, and the NHRA Safety Safari had come to Lake City, Fla. A short three years later, the garage and body-shop owner was racing professionally with the first of 34 race cars he would tag Swamp Rat. As a diversion, she was the first editor of IMSA’s Arrow newsletter, and now writes about and photographs sports cars, Indy cars, Formula 1, MotoGP, NASCAR, Formula Drift, Red Bull Global Rallycross - in addition to her first love of NHRA drag racing. Nearly all drag strips are associated with one sanctioning body or the other. In the Factory Experimental division, making power was not the problem…  hooking up on the crappy slicks of the day was an issue. Engineers tweaked suspensions to solve the problem: altered wheelbases, solid front axles, nose-in-the-air stances… all designed to put more weight on those rear tires, encouraging them to hook up rather than go up in smoke. It wasn’t long before “Dyno” Don Nicholson ran the first 10-second pass in a “doorslammer”; at the end of 1964, Art Chrisman, also in a Comet, eliminated the firewall and pushed his engine back a whopping 25-percent. GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Krista Baldwin will attempt to qualify for her first NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series event in a Top Fuel dragster during the upcoming NHRA Gatornationals at Gainesville Raceway. This is the last year of the NHRA’s Import Drag series. NHRA’s first race of 2019’s six-contest Countdown to the Championship crowned four Mello Yello Drag Racing Series winners during the 35th Mopar Express Lane NHRA Nationals on Maple Grove Raceway’s dragstrip this past Sunday, but there were many other stories to this race weekend. 0. See more ideas about nhra, drag racing, car humor. 1955: The NHRA’s first national event was held in Great Bend, Kansas. The event was washed out after the third day by the worst storms seen in the area in decades; the finals concluded in Phoenix two months later. In the end, Calvin Rice won Top Eliminator, with a 10.30 e.t./143.95mph run. Also, NHRA established its Stock Eliminator class—one of many attempts to get back to grassroots racing, using cars that looked like the ones that you could buy in showrooms. }���Sȁ��8�_h��)��ĥ)|�/t�3_��T' In the stock classes, after years of Detroit perpetually under-rating their engines to gain advantage on the track (and with insurance companies, no doubt) the NHRA develops their own horsepower figures. 2001: NHRA introduces its Import Drag Racing Series with a six-race schedule. 1941-45:  World War II gives a generation of American boys engineering know-how, thanks to the aircraft industry requiring ever-better planes for the war effort, and others a taste for speed and derring-do for the same reason. Drag racing seems like it’s been with us forever. Sensory overload - all five at once - is perhaps the best way to describe an NHRA drag race from the vantage point of just behind the top-fuel cars at the starting line. � ����F�&�{�) v�Ϊ���.٧. NHRA - 2021 NHRA Schedule & Tickets - The NHRA, the largest auto racing organization in the world. Long time NHRA drag racing competitor Vance and Hines (V&H) is returning to NHRA drag racing. Whoever is closest to their prediction, without going quicker, wins; consistentcy is rewarded over all-out speed. Slow drivers could compete against pro machinery with an equal shot of winning. Advertise a cash prize, and suddenly cars are flooding the staging lanes, angling for a shot. It worked; bracket racing today is a track staple nationwide. 1959: Historic Santa Ana closes, its runway annexed by the airport for expansion. Racer Eddie Hill introduced bicycle tires to the front of his rail job. Parachutes are first used for braking, and are soon mandatory for any car topping 150mph. NHRA presents 22 national events featuring the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series, NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, E3 Spark Plugs Pro Mod Drag Racing Series presented by J&A Service, SAM Tech.edu Factory Stock Showdown and Mickey Thompson Tires Top Fuel Harley Series. 1970: NHRA adopts and renames the Pro Stock class, slotting it beneath the Top Fuel and Funny Car in their hierarchy. Pro Stock is seen as a blend of high performance and brand identification, an outgrowth of the production based Stock classes, with fewer rules. AHRA, meanwhile, announced plans for its Grand American Series of Professional Drag Racing. A season-long points competition would produce a World Champion in several classes, with winners receiving cash bonuses at the end of the season. The Top Fuel winner, for example, won a $25,000 bonus. ����&�~�m����G(̉K��xA?HH;�F�������vM^.�<0�q̇la�D�΄�P=�tE���u}I�Nd���I�%0]��%y:�K�b��p� ��. We invite you to get behind the wheel with us, it's certain to be an interesting drive. 1989: Connie Kalitta becomes the first driver to top 290mph in Top Fuel. Prudhomme breaks the 5.20 mark in Top Fuel. Power from a top-level NHRA nitro-fueled, blown V8 is around 3,000hp. 1974: NHRA establishes a points system. Gary Beck, Shirl Greer and Bob Gladden become the NHRA’s first series champions in Top Fuel, Funny Car and Pro Stock, respectively. Pro Stock evolves: the first tube-frame-chassis Pro Stocker is a 1972 Chevy Vega run by Bill “Grumpy” Jenkins. She was the first woman to receive a license from the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) to drive a Top Fuel dragster. 1993: Jim Epler records the first 300mph Funny Car pass, while Chuck Etchells is the first Funny Car pilot in the 5s, with a 4.98 e.t.. 1994: Kurt Johnson runs the first sub-seven-second Pro Stock pass at Englishtown. 2000: NHRA again worries that its cars are getting too quick, and mandates a fuel blend with only 90-percent nitromethane. In 1953 the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds played host to the inaugural race … 2004: Gary Scelzi becomes the first Funny Car driver in NHRA history to eclipse the 330mph barrier, with a 330.15 second run in Chicago. 6 Factory Supercharged V8s That Crushed The Muscle Car Competition, Meet the Alpha Wolf: An All-Electric 1980s Pickup Truck Throwback, The T56 Transmission Shifted Modern Muscle Cars Into High Gear For 30 Years, For the Love of Vintage: A First Timer’s ’49 Bow Tie, Sign up for more restomod content to add horsepower to your inbox. Revchem Composites has extended its relationship with Kalitta Motorsports for another NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series season, starting at the 52nd annual NHRA Gatornationals. 1965: The AHRA christens these new cars “funny” cars—weird funny, not. Eddie Hill hits 300mph (source: Tom Margie), Stephan Papadakis at the Battle of the Imports (source: Papadakis Racing). And there were plenty of eyebrow-raising upsets during Sunday’s four rounds of eliminations. The association was founded by Wally Parks in 1951 in California to provide a governing body to organize and promote the sport of drag racing. To maximize revs, drivers might hold a car in gear longer, or “drag” through the gears. Which of these is correct?  Maybe none, maybe all. I made my first (drag racing) pass here and won my first race here, so a lot of firsts. NHRA's first Nationals was held in 1955, in Great Bend, Kansas. The next largest organization is the International Hot Rod Association (IHRA). Saturday Night Nitro with NHRA Hot Rod Heritage, Drag Racing 101: Understanding the Basics of 1320 Racing, Celebrating Mopar's 80th Birthday the Mile-High Way, Yes, I would like to receive emails from Nitto Tire and Driving Line, I’d like to receive Driving Line’s twice-monthly eNewsletter, Sign me up for a quarterly digital magazine subscription. The NHRA intends to have 22-23 Top Fuel and Funny Car events, 16 Pro Stock events (16 Championship NHRA Formula and 5 Non-Championship Mountain Motor Formula; 2 events will showcase both classes), and 15 Pro Stock … As a result, Top Fuel and Funny Car categories now run a 1,000-foot track, with additional safety measures enacted. The driver sat on or behind the rear wheels, with the engine far back in the frame. 1946: Restless young adrenaline junkies turn to hopping up cars; speed contests and bad behavior spill onto the streets of America, giving the boys and their fenders jalopies something of a reputation. Where speed and testosterone is involved, competition will naturally ensue, and with the dry lakes far from civilization, thrifty tinkerers kept their exploits closer to home. Games included Chicken, where two opposing cars would accelerate toward each other to see who would spook first; Crinkle-fender, where moving cars would hit each other without wrecking; and Pedestrian Poker, where a driver tried to brush (but not actually hit) pedestrians. The public was getting fed up.

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