{"id":45281,"date":"2024-04-06T16:30:59","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T21:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/?p=45281"},"modified":"2024-04-12T12:30:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T17:30:24","slug":"sellout-crowd-announced-at-firebird-motorsports-park-for-arizona-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/06\/sellout-crowd-announced-at-firebird-motorsports-park-for-arizona-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Sellout crowd announced at Firebird Motorsports Park for Arizona Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Courtesy of the NHRA<\/em><\/p>\n<p>PHOENIX \u2013 For the second straight year, NHRA and officials at Firebird Motorsports Park announced a sellout crowd for Saturday qualifying at the NHRA Arizona Nationals.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_45282\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"45282\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/06\/sellout-crowd-announced-at-firebird-motorsports-park-for-arizona-nationals\/selloutcrowdarizona\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/racedaysa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/SelloutCrowdArizona.jpg?fit=1200%2C800\" data-orig-size=\"1200,800\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SelloutCrowdArizona\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo courtesy of the NHRA&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/racedaysa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/SelloutCrowdArizona.jpg?fit=640%2C427\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45282\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45282\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/racedaysa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/SelloutCrowdArizona.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/racedaysa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/SelloutCrowdArizona.jpg?resize=300%2C200 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/racedaysa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/SelloutCrowdArizona.jpg?resize=640%2C427 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/racedaysa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/SelloutCrowdArizona.jpg?resize=768%2C512 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/racedaysa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/SelloutCrowdArizona.jpg?resize=284%2C190 284w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/racedaysa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/SelloutCrowdArizona.jpg?resize=99%2C66 99w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/racedaysa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/SelloutCrowdArizona.jpg?w=1200 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-45282\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of the NHRA<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The standout fanbase again packed the newly-renamed facility during qualifying, which also featured the finals of the Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals and the Mission #2Fast2Tasty NHRA Challenge. The overflow crowd enjoyed an action-packed day at the \u201cDuel in the Desert,\u201d which is the third of 20 races during the NHRA Mission Drag Racing Series season.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also an exciting new time for the facility, which has hosted the NHRA Arizona Nationals for nearly four decades. The track name change was announced in the off-season as the facility looks to host NHRA racing well into the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we started this journey to pursue a new era of Firebird Motorsports Park, it was driven by the passion of keeping racing alive in Arizona for our great fans, drivers and teams,\u201d Firebird Motorsports Park Track Manager Casey Buckman said. \u201cToday is proof that racing is alive and here to stay at \u2018Arizona\u2019s Home for Motorsports.\u2019 Thank you to the loyal fans, racers, sponsors and employees for selling out the 2024 Arizona Nationals and we look forward to hosting this great event for years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is the first sellout crowd of the 2024 NHRA season.<\/p>\n<p>Eliminations for the 39th annual NHRA Arizona Nationals begin at 11 a.m. MT on Sunday at Firebird Motorsports Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of the NHRA PHOENIX \u2013 For the second straight year, NHRA and officials at Firebird Motorsports Park announced a sellout crowd for Saturday qualifying at the NHRA Arizona Nationals. The standout fanbase again packed the newly-renamed facility during qualifying, which also featured the finals of the Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals and the Mission #2Fast2Tasty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":676,"featured_media":45282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[4],"tags":[6,378],"class_list":["post-45281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nhra","tag-nhra","tag-nhra-arizona-nationals"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/racedaysa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/SelloutCrowdArizona.jpg?fit=1200%2C800","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7hzTZ-bMl","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45281","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=45281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45283,"href":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45281\/revisions\/45283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}