The latest update as of February 11, 2025

More than a day late (try two months!) on this one....

I don't go onto Facebook very often (as you can see from the "latest" posting on my personal page. And that's why I completely missed a post from over two months from old friend Larry Pfister. He's going to spend his 50th of being one of drag racing's premier photographers touring around North America, working with Competition Plus at a number of major races, and generally having a great time on the "road" (mostly in the air from the sound of it).

Here's the post he made announcing the Pfister Pfoto 50th Anniversary Tour

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 2, 2024
WHAT: Round 1 of the Pfister Pfoto 50th Anniversary Tour
WHERE: World Series of Pro Mod, Bradenton, FL
WHEN: February 27-March 1, 2025

Veteran motorsport photographer Larry Pfister of Victoria, B.C. is thrilled to announce the first round of his 50th anniversary photo tour has been confirmed. The multi-event tour will kick off February 27, 2025 in Bradenton, Florida at the World Series of Pro Mod. The final event of the three race Drag Illustrated Winter Series at the famed Florida facility. "Ive been working on this for over a year" says the 69 year old Canadian. "That it’s actually gonna happen is more than surreal".

To ensure full photo credentials Pfister will be working with Bobby Bennett's Competition Plus website, which is celebrating it's 25th anniversary. "We've known of each other for a long time. To be able to work with Bobby during his site's big anniversary is about as good as it gets. I hope we can do this for a number of the events I have planned in 2025."

"Larry is one of those guys who worked tirelessly over the years doing what he loved and shooting high-quality photographs of race cars," said Bobby Bennett, a drag racing journalist of almost four decades and founder of CompetitionPlus.com. "But his biggest contribution may have been preserving the history of drag racing. That is so valuable to those of us who work daily in chronicling the history of drag racing, I am very honoured to have him working on our team throughout the DI Winter Series and other key events."

The other major component in the tour was a logo. The job went to long time friend Stu Wotipka of Instinctive Drive Creations."I had a thought of doing something with my 1975 Twig Zeigler flip photo that basically started my career. I wasn't sure it could be done, but I'm very happy with what Stu did with it." Swag featuring the logo will be available soon.

Pfister will still be shooting all the major events at his home track Mission Raceway Park, scheduling tour events around the major Mission races. "I want to cover some rather major events at places I've never been to. I'm not getting any younger, I'm healthy, so the time is right to make 2025 my dream year. And it won’t just be photo coverage. As future dates are confirmed, there are plans for a couple of components that will really complete this dream tour".

It will be very interesting to see how this tour develops for Pfister and we can't wait to see what he's able to capture with his trusty Nikon-Nikkor equipment. More news on this adventure as Pfister reports it.