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The latest update as of July 28, 2024


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61st Anniversary Event - FUNNY CAR CHAOS - Albuquerque

Aside from the qualifying order, we only have the bare details of who won and runner-upped in the Albuquerque FCC event. We've got the finals photos posted below and we've also received some shots from the Friday night qualifying session, courtesy of Dale Fackler. There were only two sessions before eliminations started on Saturday evening, due to a rainout of the second session on Friday. The abbreviated qualifying hurt a few of the racers, as regulars Chuck Loftin, Casey Geeslin, and Dustin Bradford all failed to make the final cut.

We expect to see a larger batch of photos from Bob Snyder tomorrow, and sometime later in the week, we'll get the details on eliminations from Funny Car Chaos. Our full report on the event will be done by the end of the week, and of course, we're still working on last week's NHRA Northwest Nationals coverage. There just never seems to be enough time to get things done here.

"C" Field Final


Michael Neal (near lane) vs Wayne Hofmann (far lane)

Working through the finals, starting with the "C" field, we've got Michael Neal in his family's "Burnin' Love" Nova in the near lane, while his opponent, second generation funny car racer Wayne Hofmann, was in the "China Syndrome" / Western Auto Avenger, occupying the far lane. Neal started from near the bottom of the field in the #23 spot, while Hofmann was up near the top of the "C" group in the #18 slot. The photo shows them leaving the line close together, but it was Hofmann turning on the winlight and grabbing the winner's points. He came into the event in 3rd place in the standings, just 17 points behind leader Kirk Williams, and the win might have elevated him to the top spot in the standings.


"B" Field Final


Sheldon Lofgreen

We can only see one car in the picture, the "Arizona Thunder" of Sheldon Lofgreen, but he wasn't the winner of the "B" field. He'd "rolled the lights" (overstaged) and lost on the automatic redlight. Taking advantage of Lofgreen's mistake was Brent Jones in the "Lawless" entry for his first win in the Funny Car Chaos series.


"A" Field Final


Lyle Greenberg (near lane) vs Shayne Lawson (far lane)

In the big "A" field final, it was New Mexico's own Lyle Greenberg in the familiar "Cone Hunter" Corvette in the near lane, taking on Shayne Lawson in the "Man O' War II" Mustang (far lane). Falling victim to overstaging as in the "B" final, Greenberg threw away his chances, and made Lawson the winner of the event. Coming into the race in 7th place in the standings, Lawson most likely moved up two or even three spots with the victory. As he was only 35 points out of first place coming into the event, he should be in a very good position to challenge for the season championship in the final race of the year at Asbury, Mo's Mo-Kan Dragway at the end of August.