{"id":5071,"date":"2016-08-11T18:48:25","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T23:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/?p=5071"},"modified":"2016-08-11T18:48:25","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T23:48:25","slug":"nhra-mello-yello-drag-racing-series-event-agreement-extended-with-houstons-royal-purple-raceway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/11\/nhra-mello-yello-drag-racing-series-event-agreement-extended-with-houstons-royal-purple-raceway\/","title":{"rendered":"NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series event agreement extended with Houston’s Royal Purple Raceway"},"content":{"rendered":"

GLENDORA, Calif. \u00a0\u2013 Officials from the NHRA<\/strong> and Royal Purple Raceway<\/a> near Houston announced today that they have reached a multi-year contract extension for the NHRA SpringNationals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The NHRA has extended their contract agreement with Houston’s Royal Purple Raceway. Photo by Mike Haag<\/p><\/div>\n

In the agreement, the track will continue to host NHRA national events well into the future.<\/p>\n

The 30th annual NHRA SpringNationals, round five of the 2017 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, will be held April 21-23 at the popular dragstrip located in Baytown, Texas.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re proud to have the opportunity to continue to provide the loyal fans of the Southeast Texas region and greater Houston area with exciting side-by-side competition for many years to come,\u201d said Peter Clifford, NHRA president. \u201cWe are confident Royal Purple Raceway will continue to build upon its great legacy as one of the world\u2019s fastest dragstrips.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fan-friendly Houston track has been the home to numerous record-setting performances over the years due to its sea level altitude and excellent racing surface.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we enter into our 30th anniversary of hosting NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series action we are excited to extend our partnership with NHRA,\u201d said Seth Angel, vice president and general manager of Royal Purple Raceway. \u201cWe are thrilled to be able to continue to showcase the awesome 330 mile per hour power of Top Fuel dragsters and Funny Cars to the great motorsports fans in Houston and Southeast Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n

Story courtesy of the NHRA<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GLENDORA, Calif. \u00a0\u2013 Officials from the NHRA and Royal Purple Raceway near Houston announced today that they have reached a multi-year contract extension for the NHRA SpringNationals. In the agreement, the track will continue to host NHRA national events well into the future. The 30th annual NHRA SpringNationals, round five of the 2017 NHRA Mello […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5072,"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_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":[6,133],"class_list":["post-5071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nhra","tag-nhra","tag-royal-purple-raceway"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/racedaysa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_5783.jpg?fit=2016%2C1512&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7hzTZ-1jN","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5073,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5071\/revisions\/5073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}