{"id":4693,"date":"2021-06-03T16:32:47","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T16:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?p=4693"},"modified":"2021-06-03T18:41:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T18:41:33","slug":"bakersfield-claim-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?p=4693","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield Claim Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Nitro Nostalgia Funny Car racer Bobby Cottrell extended his winning ways during last weekend’s 63rd Annual Good Vibrations Motorsports “March Meet” – held at Famoso Drag Strip near Bakersfield CA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cottrell, who is based from Whitter CA., scored his 4th career event win since 2018 at that track (2 March Meet\/2 CHRR<\/em> titles<\/em>) when he bested Michael Peck in the final round for this Lucas Oil presented race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Bobby Cottrell won for the 4th time in his career at Bakersfield’s Famoso Drag Strip)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Bobby Cottrell drove the Austin & O’Brien Bardahl-sponsored Chevy Camaro to a final round 5.728 secs at 248.71 mph to defeat Peck, a first time finalist, who ran 5.997 secs 245.90 mph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cottrell had qualified #2 (with a 5.650 secs) before winning over Matt Melendey, Kamaka Pocock and Kris Krabill in earlier competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A total of 21 Funny Cars made qualifying attempts at this year’s March Meet event, with 15\/16 of those cars running in the 5-secs zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Class newcomer (Michael Peck was a surprise finalist in the Funny Car class)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Dan Horan (photo below<\/em>) was credited with low ET of the event when he recorded a 5.630 secs laps while qualifying #1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To view additional Funny Car class photos from this event link to our LMLCMedia<\/strong> event gallery: HERE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Posted by Bruce Biegler<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photos by Marc Gewertz<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nitro Nostalgia Funny Car racer Bobby Cottrell extended his winning ways during last weekend’s 63rd Annual Good Vibrations Motorsports “March Meet” – held at Famoso Drag Strip near Bakersfield CA. Cottrell, who is based from Whitter CA., scored his 4th career event win since 2018 at that track (2 March Meet\/2 CHRR titles) when he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[134,35,69],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4693"}],"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=4693"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4706,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4693\/revisions\/4706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}