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In April 1993 the governance of drag racing was separated from the NZHRA and the New Zealand Drag Racing Association (NZDRA) was formed. In 2014, New Zealand's second purpose built drag strip – Masterton Motorplex – opened. The first New Zealand Drag Racing Nationals was held in the 1966/67 season at Kopuku, near Auckland.
In 1990, an all new class, Pro Modified, was introduced which has since become a feature at IHRA events and has become one of drag racing’s most successful classes enjoying popularity in both North America and Europe. During this period Pro Modified became the IHRA's main asset in its recovery from the 1988 season that had nearly destroyed it.
None of these four-wheel designs bore fruit; the development of tires designed specifically for drag racing made four wheels unnecessary. In keeping with the austere nature of a dragster, the heavy cranking motor and battery needed to start the engine were two of the items removed to save weight, requiring that the dragster be push-started.
[12] [21] As late as that, however, John Lingenfelter was racing a B/Econo Altered (rebodied from Bob Glidden's 1976 Pro Stock car) in Comp Eliminator. [2] Richard Hartman, a crew chief for NHRA Funny Car driver Tim Wilkerson, rebodied a former Wilkerson Funny Car chassis into an Altered, reaching 4.92 seconds in the quarter-mile with a ...
They've come a long way in the drag racing world since the early days when Wayne won driving the family's 1970 Ford station wagon, which was green with wood-grain panels and an unlikely race car.
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] The cubic inch displacement of the engines in Nostalgia Super Stock is not a tech item, and motors as large as 620 cubic inches (10 L) has these cars running as quick as 8-seconds in the quarter ...
Drag Safari would lead to the 1955 US Nationals for drag racing. [2] Due to the coronavirus pandemic in the United States, the NHRA cancelled its 2020 and 2021 editions of the Drag Racing Series at the Virginia Motorsports Park. Regular scheduling resumed in 2022, with the events taking place in May of that year. [4]
Palm Beach County is interested in leasing 128 acres at 20-Mile Bend to a developer to build a course for drag racing, off-highway vehicles or both. Palm Beach County seeks proposals to build, run ...