PDRA Season Set to Open Next Weekend at Tulsa|

Less than a week remains earlier the Professional person Drag Racers Association (PDRA) opens its third flavour of all-eighth-mile competition with the PDRA Nationals, Mar. ten-12, at Oklahoma's historic Osage Casino Tulsa Raceway Park (TRP).

PDRA_BHarris Headlined past the NAS Racing Pro Extreme class and Switzer Dynamics Pro Nitrous presented past MoTec Systems East, the 2022 PDRA season opener will besides feature GALOT Motorsports Park Pro Boost, along with Drag 965 Pro Extreme Motorcycle, MagnaFuel Elevation Sportsman and Lucas Oil Products Top Dragster, as well as MegaCorp Logistics Pro Jr. Dragster and Talbert Manufacturing Top Jr. Dragster. Additionally, local bracket racers volition compete on Sabbatum between official PDRA elimination rounds.

"We visited Tulsa in 2014, our inaugural season, and information technology was a tremendous success, one of our best events always. Unfortunately, scheduling conflicts prevented united states of america from racing there concluding twelvemonth, simply everyone involved with the PDRA is very excited nearly returning this time effectually," PDRA Race Director Bob Harris explained. "Todd (Martin) and Keith (Haney, TRP co-owners) exercise a fantastic job promoting their events at the track and we await a record turnout for the PDRA Nationals."

The contest in the iv,000-horsepower Pro Farthermost course is expected to exist particularly intense as defending form champion Jason Scruggs will debut a brand-new race car to accept on past champs Todd Tutterow and Frankie Taylor, besides as proven stars such every bit Tommy D'Aprile, Brandon Snider and Terry Leggett. In the flame-throwing Pro Nitrous wars, multi-result winners Tommy Franklin, Lizzy Musi, Pat Stoken and "Stevie Fast" Jackson are expected to set the pace, while Fri-night qualifying will also feature a special Pro Nitrous "grudge race" betwixt TRP co-owner Haney and North Carolina's Jay Cox on the Tulsa eighth mile.

Frankie Taylor

Pro Boost will have no shortage of stars, as well, with defending champ Kevin Fiscus ready to mix it upwards with rivals Kevin Rivenbark, "Turbo Todd" Moyer and Melanie Salemi, among many others. Meanwhile, upwardly on ii wheels, two-time past champion Eric McKinney with his teammate and coiffure master Ashley Owens will atomic number 82 the style in Pro Farthermost Motorcycle, while the high-speed bracket racing Top Sportsman and Top Dragster classes volition also see heavy hitters from several states showing up on 1 of the oldest continuously operating drag strips in the country.

Thursday Mar. 10 will be an open test session day for all PDRA racers, with Friday reserved for three rounds of qualifying for all classes beginning at 10:xxx a.chiliad., followed past one more round of qualifying scheduled to begin at 9 a.thousand. Sabbatum. A pre-race anniversary will begin at 3:xxx p.k. on Saturday, followed by elimination rounds for the PDRA Nationals.

Tickets to the PDRA Nationals at Tulsa Raceway Park price just $x for full general admission to Thursday's exam session, $10/daily with gratis parking on the spectator side of the track on Friday and Saturday, and $fifteen/daily plus $x for parking on the pit side of the track on Friday and Saturday. And every bit with all events at TRP, children 5 and nether are admitted free.