BUSY weekend coming up

And next week will be even busier. Let's start with the World Series of Pro Mod which is underway at Bradenton Motorsports Park. In fact, they've been testing for the past three days, but today they start getting serious with two qualifying sessions. That's followed by tomorrow's three sessions, and it wraps up on Saturday with five rounds of eliminations for the 32-car field. It's being broadcast on FloRacing.com, and reports are being posted on DragRaceCentral.com.

Simultaneously, there's an NHRA race just a few hundred miles north from Bradenton as the Division 2 - East Region event is underway at Gainesville Raceway. It's the "Baby Gators", the lead-in to next week's NHRA national event season opener, the 56th annual Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals. This week's event is being broadcast for free on NHRA.tv and can also be seen on their YouTube channel.

Somewhat further afield, actually on the other side of the world, a National Drag Racing Championship event is being held at Perth, Australia's Perth Motorplex as the Westernationals kicks off tomorrow. Due to the extreme distance from the major population centres on the east coast of the country, the Top Fuel field is expected to be no more than cars, but Top Doorslammer (aka: Pro Mod) will see more than a dozen entries, and Top Fuel Motorcycle is also on the schedule.

One more race note: the Good Vibrations Motorsports March Meet is on at Bakersfield, CA's Famoso Dragstrip. Unfortunately, we won't have a photographer on hand for the event, but we'll be avidly following the event on the internet through Drag RaceCentral.com. At this time, we're not sure if it will be broadcast anywhere. Fingers crossed though.