* PRO CLASSES: Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock and Pro Stock Motorcycle. * FORMAT: Single-elimination, tournament-style drag racing. * WHERE: Virginia Motorsports Park in Dinwiddie. * WHAT: Virginia Is For Lovers Nationals. ”Fans are showing up and teams are here getting ready. ”This will be just like a NASCAR weekend,” Kohrs said. If you closed your eyes for a second you’d swear you just saw Ken Schrader and Bill Elliott walk by. Rental car agencies have brought in additional stock for the weekend. As title sponsor, the Virginia Department of Tourism has made Dinwiddie part of its ”Virginia Is For Racers” advertising campaign.Īrea hotels and motels have been booked for months. Together, the NHRA and VMP have saturated the region with ads and commercials. Whether it’s drag racing country remains to be seen. And the road course seems unlikely because Virginia has never been considered road racing country. NASCAR won’t give Beverley a sanction while Southside Speedway continues to survive in Richmond. Future plans call for a NASCAR-style oval for weekly racing and a road course for sports cars and motorcycles.īut fans shouldn’t count on the oval anytime soon. The drag strip is the centerpiece of what Beverley hopes will someday become a multi-use motorsports complex. ”That’s another of the reasons the NHRA and R.J. ”Seven million people live within three hours of us,” he said. ”The facilities will be first class and the Mid-Atlantic area is a growing market for us.”īeverley pointed to the proximity of Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington as an important factor. ”It will be a great success,” organization president Dallas Gardner said at the time. The NHRA announced this weekend’s race a year ago. The 460-acre site is between I-85 and Route 1, five miles south of Petersburg. Every pre-entered Sportsman car runs Sunday.įormer Pro Stock driver Don Beverley and four partners began building Virginia Motorsports Park in April, 1993. The 16 quickest pros run Sunday’s single-elimination finals. and 8 p.m., then again Saturday at noon and 4 p.m. The Professional classes qualify Friday at 4 p.m. * Sportsman cars qualify Thursday at 10 a.m. The coast-to-coast tour offers $27 million in purses, bonuses and contingency awards to drivers in four Professional and eight Sportsman classes * The four-day event is the eighth on this year’s 19-race Winston World Championship schedule. Their quarter-mile elapsed times are slightly fewer than six seconds * Pro Stock cars approach 200 mph at the end of their runs. The enormously powerful cars accelerate from zero to 300 in fewer than five seconds * Finish-line speeds for Top Fuel and Funny Cars exceed 300 mph.
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