After a three week break, NHRA drag racing heads to New England with new team sponsors and nail-biting competition.
It’s been three weeks since the NHRA’s Camping World Drag Racing Series has been in action and it’s been since Houston’s last stand that we’ve seen Pro Stock cars on the drag strips. That changes this weekend, with three of four categories in play for the New England NHRA Nationals at Epping, New Hampshire.
Thus far it’s been an interesting season: Top Fuel’s four-time, reigning champ Steve Torrence is winless, 16-time Funny Car champ John Force isn’t, new entry Tony Stewart Racing has visited the Winner’s Circle with Matt Hagan’s Dodge Funny Car twice before even eight races have been contested, new team owner and reigning Flopper titleholder Ron Capps has changed body identification from Dodge to Toyota and still managed to win while saying adios to the manufacturer that dumped him, and rookie Pro Stock competitor Camrie Caruso has managed to earn her first No. 1 qualifier and go to a race’s final round.
That’s enough intrigue for most series to encounter on a yearly basis, but in NHRA, it’s just more of the same when you’re talking about what’s going on both trackside and in sponsor and team boardrooms. In its three-week hiatus, NHRA teams have managed to find more interested partners, such as Caruso’s addition of Sand Haulers of America for this race and at Bristol after an initial partnership in Houston, Clean Harbors’ added push with Kalitta Motorsports’ Top Fuel rails of Doug Kalitta and Shawn Langdon, and Justin Ashley Racing’s addition of Velociti, sponsor Phillips Connect’s technology deployment expert.
This weekend’s event will be contested without Pro Stock Motorcycle and will consist of three qualifying opportunities, one at 6:30PM ET on Friday and the others Saturday at 1:30PM and 4:30PM. Eliminations begin Sunday…
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