Press Release from IHRA:
In the world of nostalgia drag racing the well-known March Meet held at the Auto Club Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield, Calif. is often considered one of the biggest races of the year. But on the same day as the 2010 March Meet, roughly 2,000 miles away in Baton Rouge, La., eight nostalgia cars, under the new Prostalgia Nitro Funny Car banner, raced their way to numbers equaling and many times surpassing those at the Bakersfield meet. Those drivers make up the brand new Prostalgia class competing at all Nitro Jam events in 2010.
Thanks to the new “elimination only” racing style adopted by Nitro Jam in the professional categories the drivers are not given any hits at the track prior to eliminations and so far that has made little difference. Even with no pre-event track time the stars of the new Prostalgia class have lit up the scoreboards at the first two events with laps consistently in the upper five-second range at speeds well over 240 mph.
With numbers rivaling many of the best teams in the country it is becoming widely known that the place for championship nostalgia racing is on the Nitro Jam circuit. While Top Fuel will always be known as the “Kings of the Sport” and the new Pro Fuel Dragster class has created quite a buzz, the Prostalgia Nitro Funny Car class is quickly becoming one of the most popular classes ever run on the Nitro Jam Tour.
And through two events the competition couldn’t be any tighter with four different winners in four races as Gallen, McIntire, Nichols and Jacobsmeyer have all graced victory lane leading to their positions at the top of the field.
Don’t miss a minute of the action May 1-2 at “The Rock.”
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