Palazzolo, James and Schehr Highlight 2022 NMRA Champions|

The Fords were flying and the activity was astounding at all vi of the NMRA events in 2019.

They included the 25th Annual Nitto NMRA Spring Break Shootout at Bradenton Motorsports Park in Florida, 11th Annual Scoggin-Dickey Parts Center NMRA/NMCA All-Star Nationals presented by Mahle Motorsport at Atlanta Dragway, Countdown NMRA Ford Gateway Rumble presented by HPJ Operation at Gateway Motorsports Park in Illinois, 19th Annual NMRA Ford Motorsport Nationals at Maple Grove Raceway in Pennsylvania, 14th Annual Nitto NMRA/NMCA Super Bowl of Street Legal Elevate Racing at Road 66 Raceway in Illinois and the 21st Annual Nitto NMRA All-Ford World Finals in September at Beech Bend Raceway in Kentucky.

The Aerospace Components Winner's Circle was a highlight at each rail, and when the concluding two cars took the stripe at the last end on this year's NMRA tour, champions emerged.

"The 2022 NMRA champions have earned their place in the record books of the longest running street-legal elevate racing series in the history of the sport," says Mike Galimi, Manager of Content and Marketing, NMRA Keystone Drag Racing Series. "Being an NMRA champion carries a prestige rivaled by few other achievements in this segment of motorsports due to the intense competition and perseverance required to attain the championship."

In the series' VP Racing Fuels Street Outlaw category, Vinny Palazzolo [pictured higher up] led qualifying with a iv.47 and 4.44 at Bradenton Motorsports Park and Gateway Motorsports Park, and won at Bradenton Motorsports Park in his Gary Naughton Race Cars-built Mustang packing a 400ci small-block Ford and 88mm Precision turbo on his mode to the championship.

Haley James

Hotshot Haley James led qualifying in NMRAEdelbrock Renegadewith a 4.81 at Bradenton and another 4.81 at Gateway, and she won at Top Motorsports Park and Gateway in her Mustang motivated by a Coyote engine which she and her father, Dwayne James, built and fronted with a Work turbo. She was poised to put down some serious power when a stuck throttle cablevision acquired her to wreck at Beech Bend Raceway. Despite that, there was reason to celebrate, as the Hellion Racing B Team driver was not seriously injured, she earned the Renegade championship and she will exist behind the wheel of a replacement race car in 2020. This is James' third NMRA championship, as she too earned 2 in ProCharger Coyote Modified titles before moving to Renegade.

Brad Schehr

In his Mustang featuring a pocket-size-cake Ford and ProCharger D-1X, Brad Schehr set the pace in qualifying in ProCharger Modified Streetwith a vii.81 at Maple Grove, 7.70 at Road 66 and 7.70 at Beech Bend, and he won at Bradenton, Atlanta, Maple Grove, Route 66 and Beech Bend. He set records in the category with a 7.703 and 177.eighteen mph before securing the Modified Street championship.

Mike Ciborowski, who was the Advanced Fuel Dynamics Limited Street champion in 2018, led qualifying with an viii.88 at Bradenton, 8.73 at Atlanta, 8.74 at Gateway and 8.79 at Route 66. He arrived at the Winner's Circle at Bradenton and Maple Grove in his Mustang with a Rich Groh Racing Coyote engine and VMP Performance supercharger, and all of that added upward to his 2nd Limited Street championship in a row.

Afterward setting his sights on backing up his 2022 Richmond Gear Manufacturing plant Stock championship, Dan Ryntz climbed into Bart Welte'due south Mustang with a Coyote engine and C4 manual, and set the pace in qualifying with a ten.35 at Bradenton and 10.41 at Gateway, and won at Bradenton, Atlanta, Gateway and Maple Grove on his road to another Factory Stock championship.

Clair Stewart

In G-Force Racing Coyote Stock, Clair Stewart steered his Mustang packing a Gen two Coyote engine and G-Forcefulness G101-A four-speed transmission to the lead in qualifying with a x.18 at Atlanta, 10.nineteen at Gateway and 10.21 at Maple Grove, and the win at Atlanta to lock upwardly the Coyote Stock championship.

Randy Conway had already earned three Detroit Locker Truck and Lightning championships when he set out to earn a quaternary in Bruce Lampton'southward Ranger in 2019. With the number 1 on the windows of the Coyote-powered truck, he won at Bradenton and Maple Grove, and went enough rounds at the other events to exist crowned champion for the fourth year in a row.

Charlie McCulloch was on a mission in his ProCharger-equipped 1998 Mustang Cobra and his naturally aspirated 2004 Mustang Cobra in Exedy Racing Clutch Modular Muscle. He led qualifying with a .004 reaction fourth dimension at Beech Bend, and won at Maple Grove, Road 66 and Beech Bend. While there were several drivers who could have cruised to the title at the last event of the season, information technology was McCulloch who managed to pull information technology off.

Larry Firestone has been flying in ROUSH Performance Super Stang for more than 10 years, and was focused on driving his Mustang GT with a 4.6 Valve engine past Brenspeed topped with a ROUSH Performance supercharger to a first identify end. He was chasing some problems in his car early on in the season, but got everything squared away and was holding down third place in points going into the event at Beech Bend, and took the win besides equally the championship.

As the ARP Open Comp champion in 2022 and 2017, Dennis Corn was committed to capturing the championship in the category in 2022 in his Thunderbird with a seven-liter small-cake Ford congenital at Roush Engines' North Shop and a G-Forcefulness 5-speed transmission. He won at Gateway every bit well every bit in the Open up Comp All-Star Shootout at Atlanta, went rounds at other events and rocketed to the Open up Comp championship.

John Butsko

John Butsko has moved upward in Race Star Wheels Ford Muscle points each of the by few years, wanted to continue that tendency and did just that in 2019. In his fan-favorite Falcon with a 302ci engine which helps him clock 12s, he earned a runner-upwards finish at Bradenton and Road 66, and semifinal finishes at Atlanta and Maple Grove, and in racing through the rounds, he was rewarded with the Ford Muscle championship.

After all of the champions were celebrated at the NMRA Muscle Car Nationals presented past E3 Spark Plugs Awards Ceremony presented by Aerospace Components, December. 13, at the Indiana Convention Center, focus turned to the first event on the NMRA's 2022 bout, the 26th Almanac NittoNMRA Spring Intermission Shootout, Feb. 27-March 1, at Bradenton Motorsports Park.