2018 Tucson Dragway by Les Mayhew

2018 UNFC Tucson Dragway by Les Mayhew

Les Mayhew of NitroAmerica is Back!  It's been a year since we could sit behind a screen and feel that you're down on the track!  Les takes us out to Tucson Dragway and films the 2018 UNFC. (United Nitro Funny Cars)

From Tucson Dragway:  Tucson Dragway is committed to making sure that the community has a place to race and enjoy great shows like the Tucson Dragway Reunion, Fall Fuel Extravaganza, The Super Chevy Show and Roadkill Zip-Tie Drags!  They are happy to host great Drag Racing Schools like Frank Hawley's Drag Racing School and The Pure Speed Drag Racing Experience.  The track has been trying to get a wide variety of races for 2018 and are happy to welcome Street Outlaw Boddie's 1/8th Mile No Time Racing Association, Mike Murrilo's Big Bracket Race and The DigNight Street Style Race! (end Tucson)

Wow, that's some lineup with hands on experience!  All right let's kick this off and as usual burp that Jerrycan of 101octane (unless you have Nitro?) in the room and burn a cut piece of radiator-hose in the ashtray because now your standing next to Les on the track!

 

2015 Famoso Raceway March Meet

NitroAmerica 2015 March Meet The Movie

This is all about to kick off again, Good Vibrations Motorsports March Meet March 3-6, 2016.  In the mean time the best producer of putting us down on the track, Les Mayhew of Nitro America.  Les has put together a movie of the March Meet from last year of just the most extraordinary filming known in racing.  We get to go in the field and meet the teams talk to the builders and tuners, drivers and witness the power of the launch shredding clutch dust, tire buckle, wheel shake, Nitro spit out of the pipes and the pounding sound that makes this event one of the most fierce competition events of the year!  If you are ever in the area around McFarland CA. in the beginning of March I envy you, Mate, for this event is getting bigger all the time and teams are gunning for a win like the Indy 500 or Daytona.

Before the movie, I would like you to meet someone.

Thanks for putting us down on the track Les, you Sir are the best in your field.

Ok Mate, here we go, burn a piece of radiator hose in the ashtray and burp that Jerry Can of high octane in the room for that's the only element missing from Les's films! 

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2014 March Meet Famoso Raceway

2014 March Meet Famoso Raceway by NitroAmerica

Nothing kicks off the 4th like Nitro running the quarter mile.  NitroAmerica takes us out to Southern California at Auto Club Famoso in Bakersfield.  Once again Les Mayhew puts us on the track for the entire event!  One of the top shows in drag racing for Nitroholics. 

Thanks, Les, yet another epic vid.  I'll say it again, no one but no one films drag racing like you do!  Your work puts us down on the track!

The 2014 March Meet welcomed drag racing fans from all 4 corners of the Earth with beautiful Southern California sunshine at Auto Club Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield, California. By Saturday the faithful were over 6 deep at the fence. With nitro burning machines roaring down the quarter mile, there was no other place a nitro fan would want to be.

“This place is unbelievable," 16 time NHRA Funny Car Champ John Force proclaimed over the tracks PA system. "I couldn't find a parking space.” He then added, “This is bigger than a national event”. With 25 Funny Cars, 16 Top Fuel Dragsters and 8 Fuel Altereds, the 2014 March Meet was a Nitroholic’s dream and for the drivers who compete here, it's equivalent to Indy 500.

Now we're smokin!  

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North Star Dragway

NitroAmerica North Star Dragway

Ya know I was going through the clips for the NHRA and man I'll tell ya, I want to see and hear the cars run! (too commercial)   Not listen to someone telling me how hard they work and letting me know of all their sponsors.  When NHRA introduced the Pro Mods two years ago they did a fantastic job of the promo and races, now I see the winner circle girl smiling and some driver babbling.  For real man, NHRA should take a look at what NitroAmerica is doing for drag racing, ya think?  Let's go down to Texas and once again Les gives you more, your on the track!

North Star Dragway is so proud to bring back old school heads up racing, Pro Mods vs Fuel Altered and other such venues.  NSD takes great pride in providing fun, family-friendly events that entertain the entire family and will keep them talking long after they leave. From the quickest outlaw door slammers to the wildest fire breathing fuel altereds in the country, NSD brings you the best choices of drag racing entertainment in North Texas.  These events on average bring in more than 150 racers and over 1,000 fans to the track each weekend. 

The 2013 Pro Mod vs. Fuel Altered Showdown, North Star Dragway, Denton, TX, July 5th & 6th, 2013.  Click on time to skip ahead, now how cool is that NitroAmerica gives ya the time on this vid to advance through the film.  Bottom line, Les Mayhew is thinking about you and the man is all American as you'll see in the credits of this film.  Thanks, Les, for it is more.

 0:00 Intro
 0:41 Intro Pt. II 
2:04 Driver Profiles 
6:44 Qualifying Session 1 
18:32 Qualifying Session 2 
26:20 Round 1 
36:30 Round 2 
42:26 Final Round 
45:29 Winner's Circle 
46:04 Credits 

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NitroAmerica On Tour Spring 2013

Yet another great vid by Les Mayhew aka NitroAmerica and who better to explain his own vid then the man himself. This is Les touring around at some tracks! From landing and off the plane to the gates at Firebird International Raceway and others, wait for it, a classic in drag racing film.  (Damn this good)

"WARNING: DO NOT TURN VOLUME UP DURING THE BEGINNING OF VIDEO. DON'T WATCH IF YOU ARE OPPOSED TO MUSIC IN MY CLIPS". 

Races included: IHRA NitroJam - Southwest International Raceway, Tucson, AZ 

Last Drag Race - Firebird International Raceway, Chandler, AZ 

DragRacingOnline.com AA/FC Challenge Race #1 - Texas Raceway, Kennedale, 

TX Saturday Nite Nitro - Sacramento Raceway, Sacramento, CA NAPA Auto 

Parts Night of Fire & Thunder - Bandimere Speedway, Morrison, CA 

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