American Motorcyclist Affiliation returns to pull racing with the All Harley Drag Race Affiliation’s AMA Featured sequence
PICKERINGTON, Ohio — The American Motorcyclist Affiliation (AMA) and the All Harley Drag Race Affiliation (AHDRA) are proud to announce their partnership for 2023. The AMA will return to pull racing on a nationwide scale after a protracted hiatus, sanctioning the nationwide drag racing sequence as one among its AMA Featured sequence. The sequence will kick off at Fountain’s North Florida Motorplex on March 17-19.
“It’s nice for the AMA to be again within the drag racing enterprise with this Featured sequence,” mentioned AMA Monitor Racing Supervisor Ken Saillant. “It’s been a pleasure working with Invoice Rowe on the AHDRA, and we’re trying ahead to getting reinvolved in all the thrill of motorbike drag racing.”
The AMA AHDRA Drag Racing Collection will maintain races throughout the nation, with every occasion celebrating American bike and drag-racing cultures. The three nitromethane-burning “gasoline” courses — that includes lightning-fast bikes with quarter-mile data of 6.21 seconds at over 233 mph — embrace: Prime Gasoline, Nitro Funnybike and Hawaya Racing Professional Gasoline. Gasoline courses embrace heads-up, out the again door professional courses, index and bracket courses, together with baggers, streetbikes and wheelie-bar bikes. Each occasion may also function an opportunity for first-time racers to hit the observe and hone their drag-racing expertise.
“I believe it’s going to be nice publicity for the riders and our group, and can assist develop our sport and get worldwide recognition,” mentioned AHDRA President Invoice Rowe. “The AMA is thought everywhere in the world for what they do. I’d wish to thank Joe Bromley, Mike Scott, and AMA’s Ken Saillant for serving to push this via.”
2022 AHDRA sequence champions included:
- Tracy Kile in Prime Gasoline
- Nitro Funnybike’s Michael Balch
- Hawaya Racing Professional Gasoline’s Sam White
- GMS Xtreme Outlaw’s Charley Douglass
- Horsepower Inc. Professional Outlaw Bagger’s Reggie “Hamma” Elliott
- MTC Professional Comp Outlaw’s Khole Sellers
- Scott Tomsu in T-Man Efficiency Tremendous Inventory and V-Twin Powersports Sizzling Rod Bagger Zipper’s Efficiency Professional Modified’s George Futch
- Pingel Modified’s Kimberly “Ok-Appeal” Deshields
- Gary DeGrange in 9.30 index
- Vreeland’s Harley-Davidson Tremendous Gasoline 9.90’s John Terry
- Cody Hayworth in 10.30 and Common Fleet & Tire 10.90
- Bradley Croneberger in Daryl Coffin Motorsports 11.50
- Chris Ussery in Eliminator
- Junior Dragbike’s Michael Hines Jr. and Jaden Hines.
The whole 2023 schedule contains:
- Fountain’s North Florida Motorplex – March 17-19
- North Carolina’s Rockingham Dragway – April 28-30
- Ohio’s Kuhnle Motorsports Park – June Sept. 11
- Michigan’s Milan Dragway – July 28-30
- South Dakota’s Sturgis Dragway – Aug. 6-8
- Maryland’s Cecil County Dragway – Sept. 8-10
- North Carolina’s Rockingham Dragway – Oct. 27-29
For extra data on the AMA AHDRA Drag Racing Collection, go to raceahdra.com.
Concerning the American Motorcyclist Affiliation
Based in 1924, the AMA is a not-for-profit member-based affiliation whose mission is to advertise the bike way of life and shield the way forward for motorcycling. Because the world’s largest motorcycling rights and occasion sanctioning group, the AMA advocates for riders’ pursuits in any respect ranges of presidency and sanctions 1000’s of competitors and leisure occasions yearly. Apart from providing members money-saving reductions on services and products, the AMA additionally publishes American Motorcyclist, a just lately revitalized and month-to-month full-color journal (and digital model of identical) that covers present occasions and bike historical past with good images and compelling writing. American Motorcyclist can also be North America’s largest-circulation journal. By the AMA Bike Corridor of Fame in Pickerington, Ohio, the AMA honors the heroes and heritage of motorcycling. For extra data, go to AmericanMotorcyclist.com.
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Concerning the All Harley Drag Race Affiliation
The AHDRA started as a membership racing group within the late ’70s and continued through the years underneath many alternative names. All Harley Drag Race Affiliation/AHDRA grew to become the official licensed title in 1991. The AHDRA is owned by RaceAHDRA LLC, primarily based out of Rockingham, N.C., and run by veteran drag racer Invoice Rowe and his household. For extra data, go to raceahdra.com or e-mail the AHDRA’s Invoice Rowe at [email protected]
