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Breakfast At SEMA To Celebrate NHRA Finals
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The 2014 NHRA Breakfast at the SEMA Show will celebrate 50 years of the NHRA Finals. The popular annual event at the SEMA Show, which has showcased many of NHRA’s legendary drivers, team owners, and other characters within the sport, has grown into a must-attend affair for SEMA Show attendees, and this year’s program promises to continue that tradition.
NHRA will bring together some of the most popular drivers in the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, and they will discuss many of the iconic moments through 50 years of the NHRA Finals at historic Auto Club Raceway at Pomona in Southern California.
Drivers who will be featured during the NHRA Breakfast are John Force, Tony Schumacher, Antron Brown, and Gary Scelzi.
Force is an eight-time winner of the NHRA Finals in Funny Car, the most for a driver in any Pro category. Perhaps his greatest triumph at the event came in 2010, when he rallied to overcome a 38-point deficit and steal the championship away in the season’s closing moments from rival Matt Hagan by winning the race in spectacular fashion.
Schumacher has won the race four times in Top Fuel at the controls of his U.S. Army dragster and famously won the 2006 world championship title in the race’s final moments by winning the race and setting a national e.t. record in the final round. It is referred to as “The Run” by drag racing historians and is one of the most iconic moments in the history of the sport. The next season Schumacher entered the Finals trailing the points leader and worked his magic at the event one more time, denying "Hot Rod" Fuller a place in history as a world champ when Fuller lost early and Schumacher went on to win the race and the championship.
Brown has won the NHRA Finals in both Top Fuel and Pro Stock Motorcycle, and in 2012 he clinched his historic first Top Fuel world championship title at the event when Schumacher failed to deliver another one of his miracle comebacks.
Another driver who achieved success in multiple categories at the Finals, Scelzi won the race in Top Fuel and has clinched world championships in both Top Fuel and Funny Car at the season-ending event. Scelzi put a bow on his 2000 world championship title in Top Fuel by winning the Finals that season and then secured his 2005 Funny Car crown in memorable fashion at the famed race by holding off Force and Ron Capps during eliminations on the season’s final day.
The NHRA Breakfast at the SEMA Show will be held Wednesday, Nov. 5, from 7:30-9 a.m. at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort and Casino (formerly the Las Vegas Hotel and Casino), Ballrooms A and B. The annual NHRA Breakfast is part of the 2014 SEMA Show, the premier automotive specialty products trade event in the world which draws the industry’s brightest minds and hottest products to one place, the Las Vegas Convention Center, Nov. 4-7, 2014. The NHRA Breakfast is open to all registered SEMA Show attendees. A continental breakfast will be served.
The panel will be moderated by longtime NHRA announcer Bob Frey. Following the NHRA Breakfast, all of the special panel guests will be at the NHRA Booth (Booth #22329) signing autographs from 10–11 a.m.
This event is open to all registered SEMA Show attendees at no cost; however, tickets are required. To order your event ticket or register for the show, visit www.SEMAShow.com/register and click Add Event Tickets.
Drivers who will be featured during the NHRA Breakfast are John Force, Tony Schumacher, Antron Brown, and Gary Scelzi.
Force is an eight-time winner of the NHRA Finals in Funny Car, the most for a driver in any Pro category. Perhaps his greatest triumph at the event came in 2010, when he rallied to overcome a 38-point deficit and steal the championship away in the season’s closing moments from rival Matt Hagan by winning the race in spectacular fashion.
Schumacher has won the race four times in Top Fuel at the controls of his U.S. Army dragster and famously won the 2006 world championship title in the race’s final moments by winning the race and setting a national e.t. record in the final round. It is referred to as “The Run” by drag racing historians and is one of the most iconic moments in the history of the sport. The next season Schumacher entered the Finals trailing the points leader and worked his magic at the event one more time, denying "Hot Rod" Fuller a place in history as a world champ when Fuller lost early and Schumacher went on to win the race and the championship.
Brown has won the NHRA Finals in both Top Fuel and Pro Stock Motorcycle, and in 2012 he clinched his historic first Top Fuel world championship title at the event when Schumacher failed to deliver another one of his miracle comebacks.
Another driver who achieved success in multiple categories at the Finals, Scelzi won the race in Top Fuel and has clinched world championships in both Top Fuel and Funny Car at the season-ending event. Scelzi put a bow on his 2000 world championship title in Top Fuel by winning the Finals that season and then secured his 2005 Funny Car crown in memorable fashion at the famed race by holding off Force and Ron Capps during eliminations on the season’s final day.
The NHRA Breakfast at the SEMA Show will be held Wednesday, Nov. 5, from 7:30-9 a.m. at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort and Casino (formerly the Las Vegas Hotel and Casino), Ballrooms A and B. The annual NHRA Breakfast is part of the 2014 SEMA Show, the premier automotive specialty products trade event in the world which draws the industry’s brightest minds and hottest products to one place, the Las Vegas Convention Center, Nov. 4-7, 2014. The NHRA Breakfast is open to all registered SEMA Show attendees. A continental breakfast will be served.
The panel will be moderated by longtime NHRA announcer Bob Frey. Following the NHRA Breakfast, all of the special panel guests will be at the NHRA Booth (Booth #22329) signing autographs from 10–11 a.m.
This event is open to all registered SEMA Show attendees at no cost; however, tickets are required. To order your event ticket or register for the show, visit www.SEMAShow.com/register and click Add Event Tickets.
