{"id":29181,"date":"2020-03-26T09:33:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T14:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/?p=29181"},"modified":"2020-03-26T09:34:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T14:34:40","slug":"nhra-announces-revised-schedule-for-mello-yello-drag-racing-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/26\/nhra-announces-revised-schedule-for-mello-yello-drag-racing-series\/","title":{"rendered":"NHRA announces revised schedule for Mello Yello Drag Racing Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Courtesy of the NHRA<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In consideration of the COVID-19 global pandemic, NHRA officials announced today revisions to the 2020 Mello Yello Drag Racing Series schedule. The series is tentatively planned to resume June 5-7 with the Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals at Gainesville Raceway. The season will conclude with the crowning of the Mello Yello Drag Racing Series champions November 13-15 at the Auto Club Finals at Auto Club Raceway in Pomona.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/racedaysa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/revised-schedule.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"29182\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/26\/nhra-announces-revised-schedule-for-mello-yello-drag-racing-series\/revised-schedule\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/racedaysa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/revised-schedule.jpg?fit=920%2C518\" data-orig-size=\"920,518\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"revised-schedule\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/racedaysa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/revised-schedule.jpg?fit=640%2C360\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-29182\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/racedaysa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/revised-schedule.jpg?resize=300%2C169\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/racedaysa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/revised-schedule.jpg?resize=300%2C169 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/racedaysa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/revised-schedule.jpg?resize=768%2C432 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/racedaysa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/revised-schedule.jpg?w=920 920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The revised schedule will consist of 19 total events, with 17 of those events being contested when the series resumes in June. Six of these events will be condensed to two-day competition schedules for the Mello Yello Drag Racing Series classes due to economic and logistical factors. As a result of the compressed schedule points will not be reset after the U.S. Nationals at Lucas Oil Raceway. NHRA has held two make-up dates on the calendar in case there are further delays.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tentative schedule announcements for the Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Pro Mod Series, Mickey Thompson Tires NHRA Top Fuel Harley Series and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/samtech.edu\/\">Samtech.edu<\/a>&nbsp;NHRA Factory Stock Showdown Series will be announced soon. All NHRA-sanctioned drag racing series competition is still suspended until further notice.<\/p>\n<p>Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals PSC\/PSM (Gainesville, Fla.)&nbsp;<strong>June 5-7<\/strong><br \/>\nMopar Express Lane NHRA SpringNationals PSC\/PSM (Houston)&nbsp;<strong>June 12-14*<\/strong><br \/>\nNHRA Thunder Valley Nationals PSC\/PSM (Bristol, Tenn.)&nbsp;<strong>June 19-21*<\/strong><br \/>\nSummit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals PSC\/PSM (Norwalk, Ohio)&nbsp;<strong>June 26-28*<\/strong><br \/>\nRoute 66 NHRA Nationals (Chicago)&nbsp;<strong>July 9-12<\/strong><br \/>\nDodge Mile-High NHRA Nationals PSM (Denver)&nbsp;<strong>July 17-19<\/strong><br \/>\nNHRA Sonoma Nationals PSC\/PSM (Sonoma, Calif.)&nbsp;<strong>July 24-26<\/strong><br \/>\nNHRA Northwest Nationals PSC\/PSM (Seattle)&nbsp;<strong>July 31-Aug. 2*<\/strong><br \/>\nLucas Oil NHRA Nationals (Brainerd, Minn.)&nbsp;<strong>Aug. 13-16<\/strong><br \/>\nMenards NHRA Heartland Nationals PSC (Topeka, Kan.)&nbsp;<strong>Aug. 21-23*<\/strong><br \/>\nNHRA U.S. Nationals PSC\/PSM (Indianapolis)&nbsp;<strong>Sept. 3-7<\/strong><br \/>\nMopar Express Lane NHRA Nationals PSC\/PSM (Reading, Pa.)&nbsp;<strong>Sept. 11-13*<\/strong><br \/>\nNGK Spark Plugs NHRA Four-Wide Nationals PSC\/PSM (Charlotte)&nbsp;<strong>Sept. 18-20<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Make Up Date If Needed (Gainesville, Fla.)<\/em>&nbsp;<strong>Sept. 25-27<\/strong><br \/>\nAAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals PSC\/PSM (St. Louis)&nbsp;<strong>Oct. 2-4<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Make Up Date If Needed (Houston)<\/em>&nbsp;<strong>Oct. 9-11<\/strong><br \/>\nAAA Texas NHRA FallNationals PSC\/PSM (Dallas)&nbsp;<strong>Oct. 15-18<\/strong>&nbsp;<br \/>\nDodge NHRA Nationals PSC\/PSM (Las Vegas)&nbsp;<strong>Oct. 29-Nov. 1<\/strong><br \/>\nAuto Club NHRA Finals PSC\/PSM (Pomona, Calif.)&nbsp;<strong>Nov. 12-15<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>*Mello Yello Drag Racing Series on Saturday and Sunday only<br \/>\nPSC = Pro Stock will be contested at this event<br \/>\nPSM = Pro Stock Motorcycle will be contested at this event<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of the NHRA In consideration of the COVID-19 global pandemic, NHRA officials announced today revisions to the 2020 Mello Yello Drag Racing Series schedule. The series is tentatively planned to resume June 5-7 with the Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals at Gainesville Raceway. The season will conclude with the crowning of the Mello Yello<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":676,"featured_media":29182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-29181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhra","tag-nhra"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7hzTZ-7AF","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/racedaysa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/revised-schedule.jpg?fit=920%2C518","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29183,"href":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29181\/revisions\/29183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}