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The “new” IHRA began its second season with its second visit to South Florida’s
Palm Beach International Raceway. This year the IHRA’s Nitro Jam “menu” offers its track owner/partners and promoters a variety of nitro-burning classes to choose from that includes
just about every kind of vehicle that has ever burned nitro, plus a monster truck vs a Jet Truck. The only two classes IHRA doesn’t have on their menu are NHRA “Big Show” nitro funny cars and Nostalgia Top Fuel cars.
For the 2011, two-day show at PBIR track management picked five nitro-burning classes including a pair of Top Fuel dragsters, four IHRA-rules A/FD cars, eight Nostalgia Funny Cars running IHRA rules, four nostalgia AA/FA and four non-supercharged Harley nitro bikes.
Prostalgia (AA/FC)
Paul Romine made his first appearance at an IHRA event in about 10 years and came away the winner of the booked-in AA/FC show. (Steve Gruenwald photo)
Now if they would just run nitro in the Monster
Truck that would be real “nitrotainment”.
(Adam Cranmer photo)
Being a long time fan of
anything that burns nitromethane, I headed out to the season-opening Feld Motorsports’ Nitro Jam at the beautiful Palm Beach International Raceway to see how it worked. With a lineup that included a pair of Top Fuel Dragsters, four A/FDs, eight N/FCs, four nitro Harleys and the class I was really looking forward to, AA/Fuel Altereds with four legendary names from the 1970s in attendance, I had to be there. Throw in a pair of Jet Dragsters and a Jet Truck racing a Monster Truck and it was two nights of excitement that the radio and TV ads promised. I’m not going to give you all the numbers, you can find that elsewhere, instead here are my impressions from the weekend.
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