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NHRA announced a new approach to an event on its Full Throttle Drag Racing Series: four-wide racing at ZMax Dragway at the inaugural NHRA Four- Wide Nationals in Charlotte, N.C., set for March 25-28.
It's a departure from its traditional side-by-side racing, but was prompted by the construction of four lanes at the "Bellagio" of drag racing built by Speedway Motorsports Inc. chairman and CEO Bruton Smith two years ago.
"Bruton has been after us to do this for 10 years," NHRA president Tom Compton said. "He built the Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway wide enough for four lanes at the time, but actually put four lanes here. We ran the exhibition here last year and now we'll run four lanes for all Full Throttle classes."
"I hope all the fans are excited about this as I am," said Smith, who also said he no longer has an interest in purchasing the sanctioning body. "We are expecting it to be standing-room only here in March."
John Force, the 14-time NHRA Funny Car champion said "It's change, and I'm not sure everybody is going to like it, but we've gotta grow. Like (President) Obama says, we've got to have change."
"I don't know how the other racers feel. But at the end of the day, it's going to be exciting. You're talking over 30,000 horsepower at one time. You're talking over 1,200 mph out there on that race track. We did it. My driver, Mike Neff, won it. I was a runner-up. It was exciting.
"Let me tell you, I embarrassed myself at the press conference. We came right back in to talk about what had taken place. When I drove this four-lane race, I ran in here and I was like Tom Cruise on Oprah, jumping up and down, screaming. Everyone said, `He went nuts,' because it was that exciting and thrilling."
