Already this season, NHRA drivers have dispensed home remedies, recipes for success, fatherly and grandfatherly advice and insight into the difference between racing a Top Fuel dragster and a Funny Car.
In less than two weeks, Tony Stewart will celebrate his 53rd birthday while facing the prospects of first-time fatherhood. So it’s only natural he’d be shifting gears – mentally.
To the NHRA’s credit, it is responding to fans’ suggestions and the success of February’s PRO Superstar Shootout at Bradenton Motorsports Park by trying a two-day event.
Since 1991, the Professional Racers Owners Organization Inc. has served drag racing’s elite teams and drivers as a nonprofit organization that promotes and addresses a specific common business interest among its members.
Austin Prock was thrust into the NHRA Funny Car class in mid-January when three-time champion Robert Hight unexpectedly announced he needed to step aside to address an undisclosed medical issue.
No one should have been surprised at Austin Prock’s Funny Car victory from the No. 1 qualifying position during the PRO Superstar Shootout drag-racing specialty event in early February.
With the start of a new season approaching, even the title sponsor of the NHRA Drag Racing Series has changed — from Camping World to Mission Foods — and that ushered in a flurry of fluctuations among teams and drivers.
The purpose of the inaugural SCAG Power Equipment PRO Superstar Shootout presented by Johnson’s Horsepowered Garage goes far beyond the impressive payouts that await the winners during the Feb. 8-10 event at Florida’s Bradenton Motorsports Park.
