Bracket Racing!!!
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From: birmingham, AL
Bracket Racing!!! anyone else bracket race on here i know of a few but lets talk where you race what you race and whats the purse like around your area. also do you travel. come one there thousands of people on here i know some of you guys do this every weekend or so?
if you have any questions i will try to the best of my knowledge to answer them.
thanks Andrew
if you have any questions i will try to the best of my knowledge to answer them.
thanks Andrew
You know it! There's quiet a few on here that bracket race. I try to run every weekend.
I gave up my ole Ken Keir Dragster for a 77' Vega then gave it up to drive for a guy locally then got my 99' Camaro and just recently took it off the street to run No/E and Super Pro.
Last year I made three races in No/E and got one Runner-up and then Won the Razorback Nationals
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I do travel. I've been up to (Bristol, TN) (Mobile, AL) (Memphis, TN) (Hattiesburg(?), MS) and a couple more places. I usually run here locally at the 1/8 mile track though.
Heard anything on how they're doing the Million Dollar race this year?
I gave up my ole Ken Keir Dragster for a 77' Vega then gave it up to drive for a guy locally then got my 99' Camaro and just recently took it off the street to run No/E and Super Pro.
Last year I made three races in No/E and got one Runner-up and then Won the Razorback Nationals
.I do travel. I've been up to (Bristol, TN) (Mobile, AL) (Memphis, TN) (Hattiesburg(?), MS) and a couple more places. I usually run here locally at the 1/8 mile track though.
Heard anything on how they're doing the Million Dollar race this year?
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no havent heard much on it.
yes i go to Bristol TN every year for the World Footbrake Challenge my uncle (jared pennington and his friend Steve stites) put the race on this will be the 4th year if you like footbraking thats the place to do it that is if you can handle it top dogs there i have been traviling a lot this year went to gulport MS for KOC a feww weeks ago just got back from Montgomery last week and going to Battlefeild dragway this week for 1k in MS.
any details on your ride. Mine its a 1969 GTO were the original owners or my dad im only 18 but its a 467ci jim butler pontiac motor edlebrock heads intake AED 950 carb hyd cam scat crack and TRW pistons th400 trans 12bolt moser 7.00s all day
yes i go to Bristol TN every year for the World Footbrake Challenge my uncle (jared pennington and his friend Steve stites) put the race on this will be the 4th year if you like footbraking thats the place to do it that is if you can handle it top dogs there i have been traviling a lot this year went to gulport MS for KOC a feww weeks ago just got back from Montgomery last week and going to Battlefeild dragway this week for 1k in MS.
any details on your ride. Mine its a 1969 GTO were the original owners or my dad im only 18 but its a 467ci jim butler pontiac motor edlebrock heads intake AED 950 carb hyd cam scat crack and TRW pistons th400 trans 12bolt moser 7.00s all day
I just got my lil' 99' camaro with a 370CI motor at 3600lbs, runs 6.60's all day 
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Taking a little weight out of it now and just put in a TH400 with a brake and 4.33 gears with a Neal Chance 9" converter. We'll see how it does in about two weeks once I get it back together.
I've been staying here local trying to get the set-up pretty close before I go off anywhere for right now. I usually look up on Drag Race Results to see where some of the bigger races are.
As far as I know I'm the youngest Super Pro winner to win a DRR race at 15 years old.
.Taking a little weight out of it now and just put in a TH400 with a brake and 4.33 gears with a Neal Chance 9" converter. We'll see how it does in about two weeks once I get it back together.
I've been staying here local trying to get the set-up pretty close before I go off anywhere for right now. I usually look up on Drag Race Results to see where some of the bigger races are.
As far as I know I'm the youngest Super Pro winner to win a DRR race at 15 years old
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Pure bracket racer here. I run Route 66 in Joliet IL NHRA points. I won the championship last year there. I also run IHRA at Byron Dragway in Byron IL. I try to do some traveling when we can. I like to hit as many bigger dollar no box races in the surrounding states.
Route 66 pays 1000 to win for Pro ET.
Byron does a run off between the box and no box cars for the big money. Sat pays 2500 and Sun pays 5000
Ken
Route 66 pays 1000 to win for Pro ET.
Byron does a run off between the box and no box cars for the big money. Sat pays 2500 and Sun pays 5000
Ken
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yesh no box has been gettin big around here in AL im still feet braking with em too i might start doing it and call my budy peter biondo and get one of his trans brake buttons who knows. but yeah bracket racing is my life on the weekends you probly cant find me on the weekends anywhere but the track.
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Been bracket racing for 18 years. We usually run for $400-1000 in Florida, although SGMP in Cecil, GA had a footbrake race that paid $1500 each race for 3 races over a December weekend. All three vehicles below have been bracket raced, some just with more success than the other.... 
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Been bracket racing for 18 years. We usually run for $400-1000 in Florida, although SGMP in Cecil, GA had a footbrake race that paid $1500 each race for 3 races over a December weekend. All three vehicles below have been bracket raced, some just with more success than the other....
Derek
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Been bracket racing for 18 years. We usually run for $400-1000 in Florida, although SGMP in Cecil, GA had a footbrake race that paid $1500 each race for 3 races over a December weekend. All three vehicles below have been bracket raced, some just with more success than the other....
Derek
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here are some of mine and my familys bracket cars.
my car in the works of body and intiror as we speak keep in mind my grandparents bout this car brand new!
my street car dad races it
my uncles Nova very slick car
and my grand fathers malibu also slick ride
my car in the works of body and intiror as we speak keep in mind my grandparents bout this car brand new!
my street car dad races it
my uncles Nova very slick car
and my grand fathers malibu also slick ride
I do a little bracket racin. We race all over Texas(Kinda a big state).
Our 1st points race of the year is March 27 & 28 at Houston Raceway Park (NHRA). This year they are paying $800.00 to win N/E. We also race at Pine Valley Raceway (IHRA) for points. If the car count is over 40 cars it pays $2,000.00 to win.
Looking forward to the start of the season next weekend.
Coach
Our 1st points race of the year is March 27 & 28 at Houston Raceway Park (NHRA). This year they are paying $800.00 to win N/E. We also race at Pine Valley Raceway (IHRA) for points. If the car count is over 40 cars it pays $2,000.00 to win.
Looking forward to the start of the season next weekend.
Coach
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sounds like pretty good payouts out there... im just trying to hit some big races right now and make a name for myself (not doing so well) i have been doing something new every week and experimenting not to well. but i think i got my set up just right
so how many numbers do some of them heavy hitters hold around yalls parts???
so how many numbers do some of them heavy hitters hold around yalls parts???
I do a little bracket racin. We race all over Texas(Kinda a big state).
Our 1st points race of the year is March 27 & 28 at Houston Raceway Park (NHRA). This year they are paying $800.00 to win N/E. We also race at Pine Valley Raceway (IHRA) for points. If the car count is over 40 cars it pays $2,000.00 to win.
Looking forward to the start of the season next weekend.
Coach
Our 1st points race of the year is March 27 & 28 at Houston Raceway Park (NHRA). This year they are paying $800.00 to win N/E. We also race at Pine Valley Raceway (IHRA) for points. If the car count is over 40 cars it pays $2,000.00 to win.
Looking forward to the start of the season next weekend.
Coach
We will be racing there on the 20th.
Coach
I just ordered my new K&R Delay box
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i race in the nmca open comp since my junk lt1 cant be raced in the efi class. also have a 16 yr old brother who races in the midwest super comp after steping out of a junior he raced for 8 years.