{"id":6374,"date":"2024-10-26T22:44:42","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T22:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?p=6374"},"modified":"2024-10-28T06:51:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T06:51:39","slug":"jfr-connection-down-under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?p=6374","title":{"rendered":"JFR Connection – Down Under"},"content":{"rendered":"\n


With a brand-new NDRC Silver Christmas Tree trophy, a PB to his name and some international star power in his corner, Adam Murrihy cannot wait to head to the next round of the NDRC championship for XPRO Nitro Funny Car (Willowbank Raceway, January 10-11).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the season opening Aeroflow Spring Nationals at Dragway at The Bend got off to a tough start for the Brisbane-based team and its Northern Territorian driver, they turned it all around on Sunday to not only set their quickest time ever of 4.090 seconds at 488.59kph, but also go all the way to the A-Final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a great start to the new 2024\/2025 National Drag Racing Championship\u2019s XPRO Nitro Funny Car season for the A.M. Motorsport Nitro Freak Funny Car Team, which is well and truly gearing up for a title fight with the support of legendary US Funny Car Race team John Force Racing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are 100 percent chasing the championship,\u201d said Murrihy, who was supported by Full Noise Fabrications, Cahill\u2019s Speed Shop and The Bolt King Capalaba over the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe want to be taking home some hardware away after each round this year \u2013 we now have this Silver NDRC Tree and we will settle for that for now, but we will be doing all we can to work towards the Gold one at Willowbank Raceway in January!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The team\u2019s preparations for the next round \u2013 a home track event for the Brisbane-based crew \u2013 will also be assisted by a connection with John Force Racing and Force American Made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are working closely with the John Force team over in the States \u2013 Brett was over there for the Indianapolis round recently and will be heading back over again next month to spend more time with the John Force Team,\u201d Murrihy said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is a bit of a David and Goliath situation for us here up against the Rocket\/Aeroflow team, with three cars they get 15 runs of data out of a weekend, three lots for every pass, and we get five max over a weekend if everything goes to plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Adam Murrihy<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo, to have the John Force guys in our corner, and having the amount of data they have to lean on, has been very beneficial to us as we look to be a championship challenger this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey have been super helpful in supporting us \u2013 we can pick up the phone at any time for advice and they have also been fantastic to deal with for parts and consumables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat it means is we have got the package, the car, the crew \u2013 so if the track is right and it is not too hot at Willowbank, I think we should be able to cut some nice times.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Round two of the XPRO Nitro Funny Cars as part of the NDRC will be held at Willowbank Raceway across January 10-11, 2025, alongside racing for the NDRC Top Fuel title and Aeroflow National Sportsman Championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Posted by Jigsaw Communications
Photos by Grant Stephens<\/em> & Bruce Biegler<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With a brand-new NDRC Silver Christmas Tree trophy, a PB to his name and some international star power in his corner, Adam Murrihy cannot wait to head to the next round of the NDRC championship for XPRO Nitro Funny Car (Willowbank Raceway, January 10-11). While the season opening Aeroflow Spring Nationals at Dragway at The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[173],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6374"}],"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=6374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6377,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6374\/revisions\/6377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}