{"id":7470,"date":"2026-04-14T01:06:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T01:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?p=7470"},"modified":"2026-04-14T01:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T01:40:14","slug":"legacy-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?p=7470","title":{"rendered":"Legacy Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Season round #2 for the very popular – nostalgia-bodied – Legacy Nitro Funny Car Series was run off at last weekend\u2019s NHRA Lucas Oil Winternationals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That 8-car qualified race event conclusion did feature a terrific USA versus Canada final with Californian Geoff Monise racing Alberta’s Nathan Sitko for the title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That very quick confrontation saw the win light go to Monise by a 4.644 secs (low ET) 243.02 mph to 4.698 secs 236.80 mph margin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Legacy Nitro FC Pomona winner : Geoff Monise <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Driving the “Quarter Pounder” Pontiac Firebird, Geoff had defeated Eily Stafford and Shane Westerfield in rounds one and two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Nathan Sitko, who had won the Legacy Series season opener event a couple week prior (at Phoenix), he was the event’s #1 qualifier (4.709 secs) and had taken the Hodgson Racing “Pacemaker\/Bubble Up” tribute Firebird to convincing wins over Bill Windham and Derrick Moreira in earlier rounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Canada’s Nathan Sitko<\/strong> has advanced to both Legacy Series final rounds so far this season.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

9 cars were entered for the Pomona event producing a bump spot (1000′ racing) at 5.094 secs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shane Westerfield (who also drove within the TAFC class at the Winternationals) was credited with top speed of the race at 245.45 mph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Travis Shumake<\/strong> drove this special edition tribute car to his late father Tripp Shumake at the Pomona race. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The Legacy Nitro Funny Car series has an 11-event schedule for 2026 – including for the first time in Canada<\/em> — at Edmonton’s RAD Torque Raceway (July 10-11) during the Rocky Mountain Nationals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Posted by Bruce Biegler
Photos by Dave Ostaszewski & SR Driven Media<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Season round #2 for the very popular – nostalgia-bodied – Legacy Nitro Funny Car Series was run off at last weekend\u2019s NHRA Lucas Oil Winternationals. That 8-car qualified race event conclusion did feature a terrific USA versus Canada final with Californian Geoff Monise racing Alberta’s Nathan Sitko for the title. That very quick confrontation saw […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[244,86,245],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7470"}],"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=7470"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7480,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7470\/revisions\/7480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}