{"id":1020806,"date":"2024-03-01T06:42:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T14:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangshift.com\/?p=1020806"},"modified":"2024-03-01T06:42:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T14:42:03","slug":"the-march-meet-day-one-is-testing-for-fuel-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangshift.com\/bangshift1320\/the-march-meet-day-one-is-testing-for-fuel-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"The March Meet \u2022 Day One Is Testing For Fuel Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Photos by Darr Hawthorne) \u2022 The new NHRA Hot Rod Heritage Series has begun with the fifty-plus Top Fuelers, Nitro Funny Cars and Fuel Altereds spending Thursday afternoon adjusting new cars, new combinations, new drivers and a few new owners to take on the Famoso Dragstrip Quarter mile for the 63rd Good Vibrations March Meet.<\/p>\n

If there’s going to be a triumphant pass of the day it was Geoff Monise, driving the Quarter Pounder Firebird, who nailed a booming 5.632 ET at 254.09 miles per hour late in the day. As one of his excited crewmen said on the Top End, “So I guess we won testing?” Co-owner Keith Clark is celebrating his 50th year in drag racing, this year with some help from veteran tuner Bob Devour.<\/p>\n

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During qualifying over the weekend, a special event will be contested between the ’23 Heritage Series Top Fuel and Nitro Funny Car Champions.\u00a0 On a single qualifying pass, two-time Top Fuel Champ Tyler Hilton and six-time Nitro Funny Car Champ Bobby Cottrell will decide who’s the “Real Kings of the Sport”, racing each other for a set of Sander Wheels and a pile of contingency sponsor prizes.<\/p>\n

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Tyler Hilton in the Great Expectations Top Fuel Dragster will race Bobby Cottrell in the “Northwest Hitter” Nitro Funny Car (below).<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Past March Meet Fuel Altered Champion and NAPA Funny Car owner\/pilot Ron Capps is getting comfortable in the Burkholder Brothers Fiat Topolino, making his first pass in the Altered prior to Friday’s first qualifier.<\/p>\n

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There are over 350 racecars who already started Gasser and Nostalgia Eliminator qualifying on Thursday as well. Those galleries and elimination photos will show up here over the upcoming days.<\/p>\n

Enjoy this first Gallery from the 63rd March Meet from Bakersfield, California. There’s more to come!<\/p>\n

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