Technical Regulations NHRA rarely exposed to changes in contrast to the FIA, whose bosses do not feed bread, let me just rewrite at least a couple of heads several times during the season. However, last weekend the head of the most prestigious in the world championship drag racing decided to make races in Pro Stock class more entertaining and attractive to spectators. Some innovations will become mandatory at the next stage in Sonoma, while the other changes relating to the technical part, will enter into force at the beginning of the season 2016.
From 31 July this year the team will be obliged to remove the front part of the dregster before passing through the return path after the finish, so the fans a quarter-mile races had the opportunity to consider the power plant, thus join the world of high-speed and burning rubber. In addition, team members will forbid hold the back of the car during the start bernauta. The third item in the list of the new rules is that the windshield is now mandatory to be present sticker with the name of the manufacturer of the car, from which, in fact, painted silhouette dregster.
As for next season, the regulations here peretryahnul much more thoroughly. Carbureted engines will sink into oblivion, and they will be replaced by engines with electronic fuel injection, which will force the pace is limited at around 10,500 rev / min. Also hoods lose huge air intakes, which have long been the hallmark of class Pro Stock. And for greater entertainment length Willie bars considerably reduced, which would entail difficulties for the drivers and a spectacular starts with separation of the front wheels to the amusement of the audience. All these innovations, according to its initiators, should increase the level of competition between pilots. What would happen, we learn after the new year, and NHRA Sonoma Nationals will take place this weekend.
