Drag Race Coverage: Match Race Madness At North Star Dragway – Denton, Texas


Drag Race Coverage: Match Race Madness At North Star Dragway – Denton, Texas

(Photos by Bad Brad Klaassen and Patrick Red Williams – Words by Brad Klaassen) –  So, how do you kick off your 2015 racing season in North Texas at North Star Dragway, just outside of Denton, Texas? Well, it’s really pretty simple according to track owner Gene Nicodemus and track promoter Chris Graves. Give the fans a heavy dose of nitro and methanol fumes from pro mods, fuel altereds and a top fuel car. Yeah, that should whip their race starved masses into a frenzy, and it did!

This eighth mile facility, located forty miles north of the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex, is well know for its epic fuel altereds vs. pro mods races every fourth of July, plus also hosting the Outlaw Fuel Altered Association Series, the Southwester Heritage Racing Association Series, and the newly formed Radial Tire Racing Association Series.

But, after surviving what most Texans considered a brutal winter, yes it snowed a couple of times, Nicodemus and team mixed up the perfect solution with Match Race Madness II. Start off with an eighty degree sun fill day in late March where fans could check out static displays of Jim Anderson’s Steve Carbone tribute cackle car and Hennen Motorsports Gas Monkey Garage top fuel car. Then couple it with a balmy mild evening under the lights, matching up pro mods vs. pro nitrous cars, nitro fueled altereds vs. methanol fueled altereds, and Farris Racing’s brand new War Wagon II fuel altered vs. Jenna and Terry Haddock’s Patriot top fuel car. Add in a liberal dose of five second door slammer grudge racing cars and you have a night to remember at North Star Dragway. Let’s just say this. The joint was rocking!

Take if from me, if you find you’re anywhere near North Star Dragway stop in and give it a go, because this track is always putting on a show. See you at the drags. –Bad Brad

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