Drag racing in Florida
Drag racing in Florida
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marT350T

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948 posts

239 months

Thursday 25th October 2007
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Does anyone know of any drag racing venues in Florida, as I am having a family holiday there next year and I want to do some thing different than see Donald f*@king Duck every day.

anonymous-user

74 months

Thursday 25th October 2007
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Gainseville is a lovely facility. As well as an NHRA national event (maybe 2 next year), they also stage regular bracket races and host a Super Chevy Show round.

Edited by anonymous-user on Thursday 25th October 06:21

Tet

1,196 posts

224 months

marT350T

Original Poster:

948 posts

239 months

Thursday 25th October 2007
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Cheers.

I hope there is an event on at the end of next April when Im out there.

Miss Corrado

603 posts

231 months

Thursday 25th October 2007
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Is Chunky still online? I'm sure he could help. We went to a race track in Florida to watch him once. My memory fails me but it was not Gainsville!

I think they held races on a Wednsday night smile

Sorry i'm no help at all! I'm sure someone must have Chunky's email addy....

v8 jago

982 posts

273 months

Thursday 25th October 2007
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marT350T said:
Does anyone know of any drag racing venues in Florida, as I am having a family holiday there next year and I want to do some thing different than see Donald f*@king Duck every day.
Quack quack. Do you need anyone to carry your cases for you !! biggrinlaugh

NitroWars

667 posts

231 months

Friday 26th October 2007
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Miss Corrado said:
Is Chunky still online? I'm sure he could help. We went to a race track in Florida to watch him once. My memory fails me but it was not Gainsville!

I think they held races on a Wednsday night smile

Sorry i'm no help at all! I'm sure someone must have Chunky's email addy....
Orlando hold a meeting every Wednesday evening but the facility is a fair way out of the town, not as far as Gainesville but still a fair distance...

rolymo

595 posts

219 months

Sunday 28th October 2007
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Hi There,
I'm Chunky's dad and Florida is 5 hours behind us in time, he was going to Speedworld tonight and will probably put more racing on tomorrow.
His website with contact details is www.tony-morris-racing.com
Oh and Speedworld is on SR50 20 miles out of Orlando.
Speedworld also has it's own webpage.

Tony Morris

88 posts

231 months

Sunday 28th October 2007
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@ marT350T
Orlando Speedworld has two test and tune night's each week, which runs on Wednesday and Friday evening. They start running at 6:00pm and close the lanes at 10:00pm and are run all year long. You are going to see many street cars and lots of rice rockets, and few real race cars as the track is most of the time just not that good.

For the last five or six years we have had a bracket race program from April thought September, this may change next year as it gets way to hot come July and the car count falls off. Now the season may start earlier, right now we have been running twice a month on the second and thrid Saturday of the month, if this should change I will try and let you know. The gates open at 3:00pm with time runs at 4:00pm till 7:30pm, then round one around 8:00pm. Racing ends at somewhere around 12:00-1:00am after 8 round of racing.

The track is 12 miles east of Orlando on State road 50, very easy to find.

Bradenton motorsports park is two hour from Orlando and is the best track in Florida for us racers, as it is very fast and smouth. I would check there website before coming over as they are always running something different there. The track is on the west coast around one hour south of Tampa on State road 64, 10 mile from I75.

Gainesville is also two hours from the center of Orlando, this is a hugh track and also runs a monthly bracket race, I would check there website for dates come Feburay.

Then there is West Palm Beach also know as Moroso, if your thinking of traveling down south to Moroso which is about two and half hour drive check there website first as nobody know what going on down there right now.



marT350T

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948 posts

239 months

Monday 29th October 2007
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Thanks for the info I am now looking forward to going as I will be able to see some good racing while on holiday!

Nitrohaulic

87 posts

229 months

Friday 2nd November 2007
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You could book into Frank Hawley's drag racing school. Don't they still operate out of Gainesville?

Okay, here's the link.

http://www.frankhawley.com/

Edited by Nitrohaulic on Friday 2nd November 23:20

moparmick

690 posts

253 months

Saturday 10th November 2007
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I have just come back from A Florida holiday and i went to Bradenton for the southern nostalgia nationals, had a great day, entry was $20, track was superbly looked after and saw everything from bracket cars to gassers and vintage funny cars.
Mike

marT350T

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948 posts

239 months

Sunday 11th November 2007
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Did you stop in Orlando ?

If so how far away was the track ?

Taximan

119 posts

231 months

Sunday 11th November 2007
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Speedworld is 24 miles from 'Internationals Drive' where all the tourists stay.

moparmick

690 posts

253 months

Friday 16th November 2007
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I presume you are asking whether i went to the fastest street car event, i'm afraid i didn't have a car for the first week, although, i enjoyed the Bradenton event. The gassers, were only running the 1/8 mile, due to breakdowns the previous day, i have been to OSW before though, i was actually stopping in Poinciana.
Mike

Tony Morris

88 posts

231 months

Sunday 23rd December 2007
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It's official Orlando Speedworld will be starting it point bracket racing serie earlier this year. First event will be on January 19th with a 1/8 mile race, then a month later a 1/4 mile race on February 9th followed the next weekend with a 1/8 mile race again. if you wish to follow what's happing over here at Speedworld here is the link http://www.speedworlddragway.com/schedule/

Chunky Morris