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NHRA Announces Changes to Hot Rod Heritage Series

Glendora, Calif. - NHRA announced today that the NHRA Hot Rod Heritage Series event scheduled for 6-7 August at the Auto Club Dragway at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, has been postponed and will now be held at Famoso Raceway Auto Club, Bakersfield, Oct. 15-16. This change comes with a few other changes to the schedule of races at Auto Club Dragway and ensure compliance with maximum noise levels present at the facility. Auto Club Dragway remains committed to future activity Heritage Series at Fontana.

“We fully support the decision of Auto Club Dragway and also want to thank Auto Club Famoso Raceway for stepping in and taking on this event for the 2011 season,” said Eric Lotz, NHRA Director of Field Marketing. “It’s never easy to make adjustments to your schedule in the middle of the year, but Auto Club Famoso Raceway has once again shown its support of the Hot Rod Heritage Series and that of NHRA Drag Racing.”

The event will be the final points earning event for the Group 2 classes (NE I, NE II, NE III, A/Gas, B/Gas, C/Gas, D/Gas, and Hot Rod) with the 2011 NHRA Hot Rod Heritage Series Champions being crowned. Also in Heritage Series competition will be the A/Fuel, Jr. Fuel and 7.0 Pro classes. These classes, along with Nostalgia Top Fuel and Nostalgia Funny Car, will conclude their season the following weekend, Oct. 21-23 at the California Hot Rod Reunion presented by AAA, also at Auto Club Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield.

Additionally, NHRA announced that because of a complete lack of participation, the AA/Gas class will be suspended for the remainder of the 2011 season and will not be contested as part of the NHRA Hot Rod Heritage Series at any of the remaining events. Individual tracks may elect to run this class, or other classes in conjunction with their Heritage Series event, but such competition will not count as points earning events for the Series.

Headquartered in Glendora, Calif., NHRA is celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2011. As the primary sanctioning body for the sport of drag racing in the United States, NHRA presents 22 national events featuring the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series, NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series and NHRA Get Screened America Pro Mod Drag Racing Series. Two NHRA-sanctioned bracket racing series provide competition opportunities for drivers of all levels: the NHRA Summit Racing Series and the NHRA Drags: Street Legal Style presented by AAA. NHRA also offers the Jr.

California University Students to Compete in ... - Auto Club Speedway

SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, Calif. (June 14, 2011) – Auto Club Speedway welcomes back collegiate engineering students who will compete in SAE International’s Formula SAE California competition at Auto Club Speedway, June 15 – 18 .    The limitations on the car frame and engine will challenge both undergraduate and graduate students who will conceive, design, fabricate and compete with small formula-style racing vehicles against teams from all over the world.

More than 80 universities will compete in this year’s Formula SAE California event, including local universities:  California Polytechnic State University; California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; California State University, Fresno; California State University, Fullerton; California State University, Los Angeles; California State University, Sacramento; San Diego State University; San Jose State University; University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Davis; University of California, Irvine; University of California, San Diego; University of Southern California and University of California, Merced.

The concept behind Formula SAE is that a fictional manufacturing company has contracted a design team to develop a small formula-style race car. The prototype race car is to be evaluated for its potential as a production item. The target marketing group for the race car is the non-professional weekend autocross racer. Each student team designs, builds and tests a prototype based on a series of rules whose purpose is both to ensure onsite event operations and promote clever problem solving.

The four-day event allows students to work as a team to skillfully prepare a winning race car.  Students will begin the week with tech inspections, moving on to judging and testing, concluding with the coveted award ceremony.  Teams have a chance to take home a trophy in one of 11 different categories ranging from The Engineering Design Award to The Fuel Economy Award.

Formula SAE promotes careers and excellence in engineering as it encompasses all aspects of the automotive industry including research, design, manufacturing, testing, developing, marketing, management and finances. Formula SAE takes students out of the classroom and allows them to apply textbook theories to real work experiences.

Spectators are welcome and admission is free.  For more information about SAE International visit www.sae.org .

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