BIR 2026

[aakar]

I literally cannot wait for the battle between AJ and Brian the next two events...

 

[mick]

jerry tucker & alan prusiensky bring PS total to 19. alcohol fields slowly filling.
yesterday a bunch of small diamond wally's were awarded. great day of racing. followed on youtube all day.
class is just awesome ...... i mite be off by a few, but i think i counted 69 SS'rs and 91 STK'rs. great fields.
they are taking 60 for the nationals next week. yesterday the 60th stk'r was -0.711 under, and 12 cars were over a second under.
i'd say pretty stout for a non-indy field, as well as 12 comp cars competing yesterday.
lynsi snyder ran great yesteday too in TS qualifying #8.

 

[GumbyWVU]

jerry tucker & alan prusiensky bring PS total to 19. alcohol fields slowly filling.
yesterday a bunch of small diamond wally's were awarded. great day of racing. followed on youtube all day.
class is just awesome ...... i mite be off by a few, but i think i counted 69 SS'rs and 91 STK'rs. great fields.
they are taking 60 for the nationals next week. yesterday the 60th stk'r was -0.711 under, and 12 cars were over a second under.
i'd say pretty stout for a non-indy field, as well as 12 comp cars competing yesterday.
lynsi snyder ran great yesteday too in TS qualifying #8.

Nice to see Prusiensky back out. That would be a haul for him, if he's coming from NJ. Maybe he'll enter at Indy too then.

 

[Rasn1320]

Nice to see Prusiensky back out. That would be a haul for him, if he's coming from NJ. Maybe he'll enter at Indy too then.

Hopefully nhra gives dodges more rpm!

 

[justafan]

Nice to see Prusiensky back out. That would be a haul for him, if he's coming from NJ. Maybe he'll enter at Indy too then.

Always good to see Alan at the track. He was in Sonoma. His car traveled to CA in Kenny Delco's trailer.

 

[mgty3whlr]

Unless Alan found some power, NHRA is gonna need to add an additional 500 rpm to what they already provided to the Mopars.

 

[RebilasPhoto]

Hopefully nhra gives dodges more rpm!

Nitrous would provide the extra RPMs...

 

[mick]

was impressed how quickly they wrapped up double D yesterday, considering the saturday rain delays.
a lot of racers from the coasts made this trek. lots of races coming up to fill a 4-5 race swing.
stock list is now quota+. i see three former champions using gold card to add to list, plus two others
with exemption status as 2025 div. winner and 2025 bir nationals winner.

 

[Mike]

Has the Brainerd race ever had snow or below freezing temps if an unseasonable cold spell passed thrpugh during race weekend?

 

[mick]

Has the Brainerd race ever had snow or below freezing temps if an unseasonable cold spell passed thrpugh during race weekend?

ha! no, but can recall a race or two back in 90's where i bet the overnight lows might have
been in upper 40's? it was either 90 or 91, sunday of race was very cold. i think the first 4 at BIR by j. amato.
i think 2015 or 16 was fairly cold too. the year the AJR knuckle sandwich TF'r went 3.66 on 7 cylinders.

 

[mick]

here it is the week of the brainerd national event and not even a presenting sponsor.
BIR joins the zmax 4wides, SGMP, and so far rockingham, as events with no sponsor tied to them.
yet we have an nhra official illumination sponsor, and an nhra official discount app.
CGM only fielding one FC (first time this year i think?), and no dunn racing.
no creasy, no luigi novelli TF'r, no t. totten. very thankful for at least full field in TF. it just looks better on tv.

 

[Just Paul]

Has the Brainerd race ever had snow or below freezing temps if an unseasonable cold spell passed thrpugh during race weekend?

No snow, but I've seen overnight low's in the 30's before. It's been 20 years or so though.

 

[Chili]

here it is the week of the brainerd national event and not even a presenting sponsor.
BIR joins the zmax 4wides, SGMP, and so far rockingham, as events with no sponsor tied to them.
yet we have an nhra official illumination sponsor, and an nhra official discount app.
CGM only fielding one FC (first time this year i think?), and no dunn racing.
no creasy, no luigi novelli TF'r, no t. totten. very thankful for at least full field in TF. it just looks better on tv.

I believe Totten sold his car.

 

[mick]

just came across my youtube.

 

[Chili]

Interesting to see Jake Slater driving the Worsham FC in TAFC this weekend. Now is this a nitro injected entry or blown Alky combo? I know NHRA had a new blown nitro combo for TAFC but I don’t think it is legal yet.

 

[Just Paul]

Interesting to see Jake Slater driving the Worsham FC in TAFC this weekend. Now is this a nitro injected entry or blown Alky combo? I know NHRA had a new blown nitro combo for TAFC but I don’t think it is legal yet.

It's plan C. They have been testing it. Not much down low (yet) but it moves on the big end. I'm very curious to see how it runs in Brainerd.


13 TAFC at a national event, that's pretty good. Yes not full, but it will be a good show with a lot of heavy hitters. BBB debuting a new car as well.

 

[mick]

good catch on the entry list chris. didn't even see that. thanks paul for the info.

 

[Ponyhntr]

Correct, Slater is driving the new blown nitro TAFC combo

 

[Chili]

Correct, Slater is driving the new blown nitro TAFC combo

I was thinking that combo wasn’t legal yet but you definitely know more about it than I would. I think it ran 5.63 when testing during the Midwest race up in Michigan.

 

[65 Goatboy]

just came across my youtube.

Speaking of Del Worsham, didn't he build the first nitro blender at a race in California back in the day?