2026 Pomona "Winternationals" (9 Viewers)

[J. S.]

......Pomona Raceway is in the middle of Pomona/LaVerne.......

Interestingly, I learned some years ago that the Pomona track is actually in the City of Laverne, not Pomona. Maybe they are drag racing fans over there and annexed the track at some point....

 

[shodog]

Jason, Joe and Courtney are starting to babble. I Quit!

PS: glancing through the Winternats results on Drag Race Central, that looked like a pretty impressive day of eliminations.

impressive yes,but one very long weekend with the weather and Schumacher's stuff and the tree had to be fixed also one of the track sprayers went down making track prep extra long.

 

[GumbyWVU]

as long as amanda busick doesn't go away. i know she doesn't do every national, but hope she continues to work
the majority of them. i'm fine with the current crop. in fact, i really enjoy galvin's delivery maybe the most of all.
lohnes always comes across as excited about whatever the subject matter, which is refreshing.
...... facebook post mentioned james stevens was stable sunday and scheduled for surgery today (monday)

Amanda is indeed very good but to be honest I think Jamie Howell (?) was about tops. I think that was her last name. But both were an excellent combo together.

 

[GumbyWVU]

Def agree on the music,nothing wromg with a little quiet time,cant believe they still have that dj guy. Rwr is def struggling and now the rear end issues.

Let's all make a pact - if they start blasting Taylor Swift we all storm the track, LOL. Make Disco Demolition Night at Comisky Park look like a Boy Scout camp.

LOL - check out that footage from Disco Demo Night, it's hilarious! That and the 10-cent beer promo in Cleveland, against the Rangers.

 

[you]

Smoke taking out the two best leavers was huge!

 

[mick]

Amanda is indeed very good but to be honest I think Jamie Howell (?) was about tops. I think that was her last name. But both were an excellent combo together.

agreed, jamie howe is/was good ....... yes, tony stewart yesterday was a statement. mike green lays one down in final

 

[JohnH]

I play in multiple bands , singing for 50 years. I didn't think the guy was horrible. Maybe we tuned him out. I did notice he didn't have much of a range, but at least he sang within it.

 

[Randy]

Lots of back and forth on this Did anybody confirm if one of the rear end explosions was actually a Chrisman? I ran Steve's rear ends for years, and they are amazing.

 

[JRW]

Lots of back and forth on this Did anybody confirm if one of the rear end explosions was actually a Chrisman? I ran Steve's rear ends for years, and they are amazing.

Fs1 said it was,lol

 

[mick]

screenshot from one of clay's winternats videos ..... chrisman.
did the pinion snout break causing this? any chance the metal was bad in both pinions?

 

[LoPony]

screenshot from one of clay's winternats videos ..... chrisman.
did the pinion snout break causing this? any chance the metal was bad in both pinions?

Mike, yes. I’m wondering the same thing. See my post above and new post also on this topic from today.

 

[Tim]

Going back to James Stevens wreck, is it me or does it look like the car accelerated and hugged the wall instead of keeping the same trajectory? I saw a random post on Facebook and parts and pieces landed against the fence on the other side of the track near the pits. Also showed fence damage and what was left of the front of the chassis which was all tubing.

Need to go back and look at NHRA tv from Friday and Saturday but noticed a rather large tire barrier near the scoreboard on the right lane yesterday. Not sure if it was there before and I didn’t notice or not.

Last thing…the men and women of the Safety Safari are 100% badasses. Truly amazing what that team can do.

 

[Robert Reehl]

Lots of back and forth on this Did anybody confirm if one of the rear end explosions was actually a Chrisman? I ran Steve's rear ends for years, and they are amazing.

I saw both rear ends today at Steve’s . Still trying to figure out the cause.

 

[65 Goatboy]

Yes, they were a little hard to listen to over the PA at the track yesterday. She is pleasant enough, and is well-spoken, but I just don't think she adds much of interest to the commentary. I couldn't care less if there is a woman on the mic or not, but she better know a LOT about drag racing, and have a lot of pertinent information to talk about as a color commentator. When you get a so-so announcing team like this, I REALLY miss the days of Bob Frey and Alan Reinhart. Those guys would always fill the down time with really interesting drag racing info. Even during the back up and pre-stage time periods, they would always have interesting things to say. Not meaningless drivel. I even remember hearing the great Linda Vaughn doing color commentary at Pomona from time to time years ago, and for those who were not there, she really knew her stuff, believe it or not. Why couldn't they get, say, Brittany Force to do a stint during the fuel sessions? Or a guy like Bruce Larson, who was in the house on Saturday. Or the Snake, who was also there?

I think Courtney may be better off doing the finish line interviews, instead of in the booth. Or, maybe she'll step up her game, and get better doing the color commentary. I guess we'll see.

Not that I don't like her she is fairly knowledgeable but I've said it before, her and Jason tend to talk a little too much. After constant rain delays and more gear lube on the track and more sprinkles at 8:00 I'd had and heard enough. You can watch the rest of eliminations anytime you want on nhra.tv.

 

[65 Goatboy]

Its beginning to look like RWR adding a second car was not a great idea. Justin Ashley and Antron do fine with solo car teams. Model those two examples. Running old parts in top fuel yields predictable and messy results.

I can guarantee you RWR is not running old parts! Their parts are as good as anyone's out there right now. Watch some of Clay Millican's excellent youtube video's.

 

[JohnH]

Not that I don't like her she is fairly knowledgeable but I've said it before, her and Jason tend to talk a little too much. After constant rain delays and more gear lube on the track and more sprinkles at 8:00 I'd had and heard enough. You can watch the rest of eliminations anytime you want on nhra.tv.

Sitting at the the top end , it was really hard to follow what two cars were racing. The announcing was annoying! One of the rounds with Alexis, all Courtney did was blab about her the whole time before they launched ! Well, who was in the other lane? I don’t have every car color and sponsor memorized with what driver is in it . She spent so much time going on and on about Alexis, the other driver was never mentioned again . One of my acquaintances was complaining about her delivery. If there is live timing and scoring, please send me a link. I couldn’t find it. Just before they launch , something like , “ here we go with Alexis right lane and Prock left “ would be better. They did do that usually. But not that one.

 

[I was NITRO BREATH]

Jeremy, I couldn't agree more. When the crappy "music" they blast over the speakers between runs is louder than the nitro cars, we have a problem.

Agreed. Get rid of music. This is a drag race we have enough loud noise