{"id":5901,"date":"2024-03-07T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?p=5901"},"modified":"2024-03-09T07:01:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T07:01:15","slug":"march-meet-marvel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?p=5901","title":{"rendered":"March Meet Marvel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nitro Nostalgia Funny Car racing was again the event’s signature marquee attraction as 24 cars were entered for the 16-car eliminator field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cory Lee<\/strong> won the 2024 Good Vibrations Motorsports March Meet AA\/FC title — arguably the biggest event win of his career.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Veteran participant Cory Lee (from Oceanside CA) led the list of event winners — taking the AA\/FC eliminator driving the “Pedaler” ’79 Challenger bodied car — defeating transplanted Canadian Jeff Arend (now from La Verne CA) in the championship round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Toronto native Jeff Arend<\/strong> placed R\/UP at the 2024 March Meet.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Lee recorded a winning 5.658 secs at 260.01 mph to top the Arend-driven ’78 Firebird which recorded a 5.829 secs at 236.92 in the final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lee defeated Matt Melendez, Drew Austin and Cameron Ferre in early rounds, while Arend had earned win lights over opponents Jerry Espesteh, Bobby Cottrell and Jon Capps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shane Westerfield<\/strong> was the #1 qualifier — setting low ET at 5.613 secs.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Class racing was paced by Shane Westerfield who drove a ’69 Camaro to the #1 qualified spot at 5.613 secs — however was upset by Cameron Ferre (son-in-law to Canadian class driver Tim Boychuk) who beat him out in round one with an impressive 5.618 secs effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ferre (from Huntington Beach CA), the new designated driver for the Hertz\/Akers Motorsports AA\/FC team for this season, went on to a superb semi final round finish at the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cameron Ferre <\/strong>had an impressive debut driving for his new team — going to the semi final round.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Edmonton’s Tim Boychuk<\/strong> (Father in Law to Cameron Ferre) qualified on the bump with his Happy Hour Camaro.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Alberta’s Nathan Sitko<\/strong> raced his first “March Meet” as the new offical driver for the Hodgson Racing team. Nathan qualified mid-pack #8 at 5.725 secs but lost out in round one.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The bump spot for the AA\/FC field at Bakersfield was a swift 5.920 secs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Posted by Bruce Biegler
Photos by Marc Gewertz<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/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\/5901"}],"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=5901"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5905,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5901\/revisions\/5905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}