{"id":1799,"date":"2015-10-26T19:33:48","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T19:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?p=1799"},"modified":"2015-10-26T20:11:38","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T20:11:38","slug":"top-shelf-canadian-effort-at-california-hot-rod-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?p=1799","title":{"rendered":"“Top Shelf” Canadian Effort Wins CHRR"},"content":{"rendered":"

The aspiring and rekindled Hodgson Racing team from Edmonton Alberta delivered big time and more during the NHRA Hot Rod Heritage series \u00a0season conclusion event at Bakersfield.<\/p>\n

\"NFFC-BF-WC\"<\/a>
\nRacing the rather revolutionary and cutting edge new Troy Lee Designs Chevy Camaro which debuted only last summer, rookie Nitro FC class racer Ryan Hodgson\u2019s first win really was an enormous one — coming during the prestigious 2015 version California Hot Rod Reunion\u00ae<\/p>\n

Simply put, the effort put forward at Bakersfield by that talented and visionary Canadian team this weekend was both \u201ctop shelf\u201d and dominating. \u00a0 They ran the tables at the race \u2013 qualifying #1 at 5.642 secs (low ET) and setting top speed of the event at 262.28 mph (the only 260+ mph FC at the race).<\/span><\/p>\n

In the championship finals, Ryan defeated Jason Rupert (the recently crowned IHRA World Champ) with a 5.722 seconds at 255.63 mph capper which beat the 5.817 at 249.21 run posted by Rupert in the feared Bays & Rupert \u201cBlack Plague\u201d Chevy Camaro.
\n\u201cYou go out there know it is running so good and you just get in your groove and keep on, keeping on and race,\u201d Hodgson said. \u201cMy team is everything and I\u2019m just the smallest part of this thing and I get it down the track. These guys bend over backwards. Every time we race, these guys are real important to everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"BF-Final\"<\/a>
\nPrior to the final round, the race team which co-sponsored by Castrol Canada, Ron Hodgson Chevrolet-Buick-GMC and Ace Manufacturing, overseen by Ryan\u2019s father Ron Hodgson and includes key partners Harold Parfett (from Alberta) and wily tuner Bob Papirnik (from BC), had defeated the machines campaigned by Danny Gerber, James Day and Mark Sanders.<\/p>\n

\"BF-3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Ryan\u2019s win came over the quickest assembly of Nostalgia Nitro Funny Cars in NHRA history with the bump spot being a 5.898 secs. \u00a033 cars were entered for the class!
\nThe event also declared the 2015 \u00a0NHRA Hot Rod Heritage Racing Series Funny Car points championship, Steven Densham was able to outlast the competition to claim his first crown. The second-generation racer secured the title during the course of competition on Sunday.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s an amazing feeling and we have had a pretty good year all year long,\u201d Densham said. \u201cWe ended winning the championship and I\u2019m super excited it happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"NFFC-Densham\"<\/a>
\nSteven is the son of long time NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series Funny Car driver Gary Densham who is the team owner of the championship-winning car.
\n\u201cHe has done very well throughout his career and you can\u2019t take anything away from him,\u201d Steven said of his father who has won eight NHRA national events in his career. \u201cHow hard he has worked and well he has done with the very little money he had with the big car. It is always great to have my dad as a big part of that. He is the one that makes the car run so well.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"(Canada's<\/a>

(Canada’s Nathan Sitko qualified #12 running a personal bet of 5.81secs)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"(Kris<\/a>

(Kris Krabill finished 2nd in the points championship by only 6 points)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"John<\/a>

(John Hale ran a special tribute body for Jim Dunn who was the events Grand Marshall)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Marc<\/a>

(Marc White’s great looking (Crop Duster) Monza was just one of the 34 cars entered for the NFC class!)<\/p><\/div>\n

Posted with files by Bruce Biegler & NHRA Communications<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The aspiring and rekindled Hodgson Racing team from Edmonton Alberta delivered big time and more during the NHRA Hot Rod Heritage series \u00a0season conclusion event at Bakersfield. Racing the rather revolutionary and cutting edge new Troy Lee Designs Chevy Camaro which debuted only last summer, rookie Nitro FC class racer Ryan Hodgson\u2019s first win really […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1799"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1817,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions\/1817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}