{"id":92151,"date":"2024-03-29T15:18:20","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T15:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/blue-max-racing-celebrates-55-year-anniversary-this-season\/"},"modified":"2024-03-29T15:18:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T15:18:20","slug":"blue-max-racing-celebrates-55-year-anniversary-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/blue-max-racing-celebrates-55-year-anniversary-this-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Max Racing Celebrates 55-Year Anniversary This Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2024 racing season for Texan Ronny Young and the \u201cBlue Max Racing\u201d team is a big one for<br \/>\nmany reasons, most significantly marking the fifty-five year anniversary of \u201cBlue Max\u201d funny<br \/>\ncars dating back of course to the original owner, Harry Schmidt. A list of well accomplished<br \/>\ndrivers piloted the famed \u201cBlue Max\u201d nitro funny cars over the decades, making it arguably the<br \/>\nmost famous funny car on the planet. That tradition continues today each time Ronny Young<br \/>\nand company take to the strip, in recent years that being in the Funny Car Chaos series across<br \/>\nthe southwest.<br \/>\nThe most recent \u201cBlue Max\u201d was the 1979 Dodge Omni bodied entry which paid tribute to the<br \/>\n1979 to 1981 Championship winning car driven by none other than Raymond Beadle. During<br \/>\nFriday night qualifying of the Funny Car Chaos Championship Finals at State Capitol Raceway in<br \/>\nBaton Rouge this past September, the car was crashed in spectacular fashion with Young<br \/>\nthankfully suffering only minor burns to the hand and some bruising. A tough cat, like all the<br \/>\ndrivers of the \u201cBlue Max\u201d machines, Young has recovered and is ready to step back on the loud<br \/>\npedal.<br \/>\nDuring the off-season, Young traveled to multiple race shops across the country in search of a<br \/>\nnew car, but was unable to find a chassis that would suit his needs. With that, the decision was<br \/>\nmade to reintroduce the 1978 Plymouth Arrow bodied car that was retired after the 2014<br \/>\nracing season after eighteen race dates that year. With a good freshen up and more<br \/>\nhorsepower between the frame rails, the Plymouth Arrow will make its first appearance back in<br \/>\naction at the Funny Car Chaos Classic, April 4-6 th at the Texas Motorplex and also attend several<br \/>\nother Funny Car Chaos events this season.<br \/>\n\u201cWe\u2019re very excited to bring back the 78 Plymouth Arrow car because it was Beadle\u2019s<br \/>\n(Raymond) favorite of all of them and a crowd favorite. We\u2019re all just thankful to be able to<br \/>\ncontinue the tradition of the \u201cBlue Max\u201d funny cars. This is an entirely different combination<br \/>\nthan we ran back in 2013 and we haven\u2019t had a chance to test, so we\u2019re just going to see how it<br \/>\ngoes and have fun and enjoy talking to the fans, that\u2019s what this is all about for us,\u201d says Young.<br \/>\nAt the Texas Motorplex, lucky race fans able to attend in person will have first dibs getting their<br \/>\nhands on all new t-shirt and hero card designs from the team and Mr. Young will surely be glad<br \/>\nto sign your autographs as well! If you can\u2019t be there in person, take advantage of the free<br \/>\nthree day live stream on the Funny Car Chaos YouTube channel streaming here all weekend:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/FunnyCarChaos\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/FunnyCarChaos<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.draglist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/RonnyYoungPlymouthAarow.jpg?ssl=1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.draglist.com\/2024\/03\/29\/blue-max-racing-celebrates-55-year-anniversary-this-season\/\">Blue Max Racing Celebrates 55-Year Anniversary This Season<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.draglist.com\/\">Drag Racing List<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2024 racing season for Texan Ronny Young and the \u201cBlue Max Racing\u201d team is a big one for many reasons, most significantly marking the fifty-five year anniversary of \u201cBlue Max\u201d funny cars dating back of course to the original owner, Harry Schmidt. A list of well accomplished drivers piloted the famed \u201cBlue Max\u201d nitro [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}