{"id":5960,"date":"2024-04-13T00:31:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T00:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?p=5960"},"modified":"2024-04-14T00:48:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T00:48:52","slug":"pomona-phoenix-nitro-nostalgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?p=5960","title":{"rendered":"Pomona\/Phoenix – Nitro Nostalgia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Drag racing\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Pomona<\/strong>, 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Winternationals final (held at Phoenix) went to defending series champion Bobby Cottrell who raced the very formidable Austin & O\u2019Brien Bardahl-presented Chevy Camaro to victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bobby Cottrell<\/strong> won the weather deferred NHRA Winternationals title.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Cottrell, who is based from California, carded a final round 4.718 secs at 240.47 mph to defeat Jeff Arend, driver of the Problem Child Camaro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cottrell had defeated Don Knoblach and Nathan Sitko (from Edmonton AB) in earlier competion.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Canada’s Nathan Sitko<\/strong> had low ET of the meet for the Pomona event.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Sitko (new appointed driver of the Hodgson Racing\/Pacemaker\/Bubble Up Firebird) had qualified #1 with a career best 4.653 secs<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jeff Arend<\/strong> was R\/UP for Pomona racing the Problem Child Camaro.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The Phoenix Arizona Nationals title went to another Californian with Geoff Monise wheeling his \u201970 Firebird to victory.\u00a0 Monise outran Cottrell in a very competitive final round pairing taking a 4.755 secs 238.68 mph to 4.810 secs 230.02 mph decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Geoff Monise<\/strong> roared to victory at Phoenx in the “Quarter Pounder” Firebird.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Monise\u2019s event victory also included round win lights over Derrick Moreira and Jeff Arend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

R\/UP Cottrell was the quickest and fastest car for the Phoenix race – setting both low ET (4.690 secs) and top speed (242.10 mph) during qualifying while securing the #1 seed. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alberta’s Tim Boychuk<\/strong> was one of three Canadian drivers that qualified for eliminations at Phoenix.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The Pomona and Phoenix circuit stops featured 10 and 11 cars entered respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Link to more information on the Legends Nitro Series<\/strong> circuit : HERE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Photos by David Ostaszewski<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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