The biggest funny car race on the planet is returning to the 3rd Annual Lone Star Forklift Funny Car Chaos Classic. The race already has fifty pre-entries from across the country preparing for three days of flip-top flopper action. The Chaos Classic presented by So-Cal Speed Shop of Waco will kick off at the historic Texas Motorplex on March 16-18th and is the first of nine events on the Spell Paving Services Championship Tour presented by Wulff Pumps.
This race is as street as it gets. It’s a the rules-free, run whatcha’ brung approach to the CHAOS formula has a mix of funny cars you won’t see anywhere else, including pro-charged, injected nitro, turbocharged and many other unique power combinations, all chasing the same end goal, horsepower and win lights. Thirty two cars will qualify over four separate eight car fields (A-B-C-D) with equal points value across each field, giving any funny car in the world an equal chance to claim their portion of the $20,000 year end Championship payouts made possible by Fat Tirez Apparel, Excel Drywall and Performance Motorcoaches.
Iowa racer and defending FCC series Champion Kirk Williams will be the man with the target on his back as the full season points chasers start tallying those precious points in two weeks. Four female funny car drivers will attend, including Jade Cook, Julie Nataas, Mary Reep and Christine Foster. Cook will be sporting her new look Pro-Charger combination, while Nataas will pilot Randy Meyer Racing’s injected nitro funny car. Reep comes in riding momentum from a final-round appearance at the 2022 FCC Championship finals and Foster hopes to mix it up with the top runners of the A Field.
Five Top Fuel racers will be competing in Funny Car trim at the Classic including Mitch King, Kebin Kinsley, Buddy Hull, Joey Haas and Terry Haddock. The local favorite “Blue Max” will compete with Ronny Young and company looking for their first CHAOS win. The top ten finishers from the 2022 season will be on property. Three-time FCC Champion Ken Singleton will be on hand following his major fire at this event last year, which ended his driving career. Singleton is now making the tuning calls for Shayne Lawson’s “Man O’ War” team which will debut a new car at the event. The list is long and distinguished in this no holds barred funny car cage fight.
Joining the epic line-up of funny cars will be the biggest field of Outlaw Fuel Altereds in over a decade, with twenty cars planning to attend. This year is the twenty seventh consecutive season of competition for the Lone Star Forklift Outlaw Fuel Altered Association. Also on the bill, over thirty Dirty South Gassers, Ray Kelley’s pair of fire breathing jet dragsters with new driver and former FCC racer Andy Mears, the Texas Drag Racing Association and an assortment of nitro testing going on throughout the weekend with three Top Fuel dragsters planning to be on the property.
“This event is still in its infancy and already establishing itself as one of the premier drag races of the year. At every CHAOS race, we aim to provide quality and entertaining drag racing and with the team at the Motorplex, that is a certainty at the Funny Car Chaos Classic. Our racers are very passionate and understand their role in providing entertainment for the fans on and off the track. I grew up a Motorplex kid. This is where my addiction to drag racing was born. I can remember chasing autographs from my favorites like Don Prudhomme, Eddie Hill, Kenji Okazaki, Dean Skuza and Lori Johns. My wife Tera earned her nostalgia nitro funny car license at the Motorplex. To now be promoting the biggest funny car race in the world at the same place I have so many memories is very cool,” says Funny Car Chaos series director Chris Graves.
Pre-sale discounted tickets are on sale now at www.texasmotorplex.com with children twelve years old and younger admitted free with adult. Thursday, March 16th is a full day of testing followed by the event pre-party in the pits. Friday racing starts at Noon and continues into the ‘Friday Night Under The Lights’ main event starting at 6PM. Saturday racing starts at 10 AM with final FC qualifying at Noon and first round eliminations starting at 5 PM. To view the full weekend schedule, pre-entry line-up and more visit www.funnycarchaos.com. For those not lucky enough to attend this event in person, the full event will be live streamed on www.floracing.com.
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