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Indy Impressive!
NHRA’s Cornwall Quality Tools US Nationals included an important exhibition component - the latest round for the 2025 Legends Nitro Funny Car tour (featuring the Nostalgia FC class).
And that scheduled 8-car field produced a major win for the legendary Hodgson Racing Team (from Edmonton) - spearheaded by Ron and Ryan Hodgson, who prevailed with the team's newest driver, Nathan Sitko.
Nathan ...
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Boise Has Been Good to Us!
The highly formidable Hodgson Racing/Pacemaker Funny Car team flashed some more stardom last weekend by scoring another major victory within the NHRA's Hot Rod Heritage Series.
With aspiring and talented 3rd generation Canadian driver Nathan Sitko now firmly at the controls, the team once again took top honours for one of drag racing’s most time honoured and tradition rich events, the ...
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Territory Invader Prevails
Edmonton’s 2025 edition Rocky Mountain Nationals - presented at RAD Torque Raceway - showcased season round #4 for the NHRA Hot Rod Heritage’s Nitro Funny Car division.
That 8-car grouping featured six Canadian entries and two from the USA - within pursuit of valued NHRA Hot Rod Heritage Series points.
Highly reputed Funny Car team owner Bucky Austin brought in the points ...
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Ho-Ran Over the Field!
Season race #2 within the Legends Nitro Funny Car Series (presented by Extreme Steel) was included within the schedule for NHRA’s Arizona Nationals held at Firebird Motorsports Park (Phoenix AZ).
The event which attracted 10 machines for the 8-car field was ultimately won by Sylmar CA-based racer Dan Horan.
In the championship final Horan drove his Infinity Plumbing Chevy Camaro past defending ...
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An Ace for Arend!
Canadian native drag racing talent Jeff Arend scores his biggest career win within North America's exciting nitro nostalgia Funny Car racing spectrum.
Arend (originally from Toronto) and who now lives in La Verne CA., was behind the wheel of the Matt Bynum-tuned and Randy Lucchetti-owned Pontiac Firebird for the 2024 edition California Hot Rod Reunion event at Bakersfield - which ...
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Some Hometown Hustle!
2024’s edition Rocky Mountain Nationals is highlighted by a solid victory for home-based racer Tim Boychuk.
Boychuk, who is no stranger to victory lane at the RAD Torque Racing facility located just south of Edmonton, won the July 14th event concluding round — racing his quick and consistent “Happy Hour” ’69 Chevy Camaro.
Tim prevailed over five other cars entered in competition ...
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Serious Career Ignitor!
Aspiring and talented Canadian nitro nostalgia funny car driver Nathan Sitko earned his most impressive career win yet recently when he prevailed during one of drag racing's most tradition rich events -- the Napa Auto Parts Ignitor Nitro Open held at Idaho's Firebird Raceway.
Driving the highly formidable Hodgson Racing/Pacemaker Firebird (based from Edmonton AB) Sitko won the 53rd edition of ...
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Pomona/Phoenix – Nitro Nostalgia
Drag racing’s very popular Legends Nostalgia Funny Car (presented by Modern Warriors) circuit was a welcome addition to the event schedules for both the recent NHRA Lucas Oil Winternationals & the NHRA Arizona Nationals.
At Pomona, the event did experience weather issues which both reduced qualifying opportunities and which forced eliminations to be deferred to the Arizona Nationals two weeks later.
The ...
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March Meet Marvel
The NHRA's highly popular 8-race season Hot Rod Heritage Series kicked of it's 2024 campaign (Mar 1-3) when legendary Bakersfield facility Famoso Dragstrip hosted the equality famous "March Meet" (Presented by Good Vibrations Motorsports) event -- for the 63rd time.
Nitro Nostalgia Funny Car racing was again the event's signature marquee attraction as 24 cars were entered for the 16-car eliminator ...
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When Opportunity “Bubbles Up”
Edmonton local “young gun” racer is deserving recipient of a major Funny Car opportunity….
What started as a holiday too sunny California to catch some nostalgia drag racing recently turned into the opportunity of a lifetime for Nathan Sitko.
The aspiring Alberta nitro Funny Car driver found himself some time off work and decided along with team crew member Ed Mitton, ...
