{"id":99523,"date":"2025-03-17T20:18:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T20:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/fire-in-the-hole-nitro-harleys-coming-alive-at-no-problem-this-weekend\/"},"modified":"2025-03-17T20:18:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T20:18:27","slug":"fire-in-the-hole-nitro-harleys-coming-alive-at-no-problem-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/fire-in-the-hole-nitro-harleys-coming-alive-at-no-problem-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire in the Hole: Nitro Harley\u2019s Coming Alive at No Problem This Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

That thunder rolling across the sugarcane and petrochemical fields of Southwestern Louisiana this coming weekend won\u2019t be an out-of-season hurricane but will be the start of the Nitro Harley racing season as the PennGrade1 AMRA American Motorcycle Racing Association Harley-Davidson drag racing series rolls back into No Problem Raceway in Belle Rose on March 21-23.<\/p>\n

The ground-pounding, flame-throwing, thundering, 230 mph, Circle M Ranch Top Fuel Harleys headline the show, with defending champ Jay Turner facing some of his toughest opposition within his own team. Local hero Randal Andras\u2014the multi-time NHRA champ and Turner teammate\u2014will be defending his local turf to the best of his Fast Coon Ass ability.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ll both be facing Nitro Harley studs such as multi-time champ Ryan Peery, Bad Apple Racing\u2019s Tracy Kile and Jimmy \u201cMac\u201d McMillan, DayStar Machine and Cycle Concepts\u2019s Tim Kerrigan, defending race winner\u00a0Ricky \u201cSharkey\u201d House,\u00a0John \u201cJT\u201d Toth, Stewart Racing\u2019s\u00a0Jordan Peterson, Finland\u2019s Juha \u201cSushi\u201d Hintukainen, Pennsylvania\u2019s Michael Balch, and more.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nitro Funnybikes are like Top Fuel with less displacement and only one gear, but every bit as loud and awesome. Defending AMRA champ Cameron \u201cFlash\u201d Gunter will face Universal Fleet and Tire\u2019s \u201cRacin\u2019 Ray\u201d Robinson and Jason Leeper, and more.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hawaya Racing Pro Fuel bikes are smaller and carbureted but still pack a nitro punch. Two-time defending champion Sam White and his White Lightning Racing team start their title defense against \u201cBad Apple Mary\u201d Dangrow, Jim \u201cBad Influence\u201d Martin, Curt Sexton, Louisiana\u2019s Rocky Jackson, his own teammate Darren Brinkman, Brian Conley Jr., and more.<\/p>\n

Gasoline classes Outlaw Street, Zipper\u2019s Performance Pro Bagger, Thundermax Street Bagger, and Axtell Cylinders Hot Street will be there, along with index classes Top Eliminator 9.30, Super Gas 9.90, BK Electric Super Pro 10.30, Pro Eliminator 10.90, and Thundermax Street Eliminator 11.50, and also Eliminator Dial-in.<\/p>\n

The Nitro Harley competitors look forward to seeing the Harley-Davidson drag racing family, riders and fans back at No Problem Raceway,\u00a0Qualifying begins at noon on Saturday, eliminations at noon Sunday.<\/p>\n

Track details available at\u00a0https:\/\/racenpr.com\/<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Nitro Harley racers thank<\/strong>\u00a0Bad Apple Racing<\/a>,\u00a0Chris Stewart Racing<\/a>,\u00a0DayStar Machine and Cycle Concepts<\/a>,\u00a0Jay Turner Racing<\/a>,\u00a0White Lightning Racing<\/a>,\u00a0Universal Fleet and Tire<\/a>,\u00a0Hawaya Racing, and Johnny Mancuso\u2019s Circle M Ranch.<\/p>\n

This report was prepared by Tim Hailey. Enjoy everything there is to read, see and watch about motorcycle drag racing and more at\u00a0https:\/\/www.eatmyink.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This story was originally published on March 17, 2025. \"Drag<\/p>\n

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That thunder rolling across the sugarcane and petrochemical fields of Southwestern Louisiana this coming weekend won\u2019t be an out-of-season hurricane but will be the start of the Nitro Harley racing season as the PennGrade1 AMRA American Motorcycle Racing Association Harley-Davidson drag racing series rolls back into No Problem Raceway in Belle Rose on March 21-23. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99523","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}