Funny Car Cup

The 2022 season will see the return to track action for the ever-popular Nitro Funny Cars. Competition will take place over 4 rounds at Santa Pod Raceway, we’ve dropped the European element from the previous name and rebranded the series as the Funny Car Cup. Taking part this year will be 4 Brits: Ashdown, Chapman, Phelps, and Kent, with the addition of Swede, Patrick Pers. There is also a surprise for later in the season when West Ten Motorsport field a second car, driver to be confirmed.

2023 Events:

2023 Points:

Driver R1 R2 R3 R4 Bonud Total
Kevin Kent 0 156 248 221 100 725
Steve Ashdown 0 0 124 196 100 420
Jason Phelps 0 84 69 75 100 328
Patrik Pers 0 0 0 81 0 81
Kevin Chapman 0 0 0 0 0 0
The Teams
Kevin Kent
Kevin Kent
Kevin Kent
West Ten Motorsport
Chevrolet Monte Carlo
Engine Size: 500ci
PB: 4.279s @ 286mph
A new car for West Ten for 2022!
Jason Phelps
Jason Phelps
Jason Phelps
Gladiator
Toyota Camry
Engine Size: 500ci
PB: 4.762s
The Gladiator team are set to go again for 2022.
Steve Ashdown
Steve Ashdown
Steve Ashdown
The Undertaker
Dodge Charger SRT
Engine Size: 500ci
PB: 4.808s
Steve will be campaigning the Shockwave Racing Funny Car again in 2022.
Kevin Chapman
Kevin Chapman
Kevin Chapman
Thermoreg
Ford Mustang
Engine Size: 500ci
PB: 4.48s
Winner of the 2019 Series.
Patrik Pers
Patrik Pers
Patrik Pers
Dodge Charger
Engine Size: 500ci
PB:
The Swedish racer returns with a new car for the new season.
What are Funny Cars?

Funny Cars originated in 1960s America when venturesome drag racers began merging nitro-burning dragster powertrains with passenger-car bodies and created an instant sensation. Originally dubbed Factory Experimentals, their altered wheelbases and protruding engine parts made them look ‘kinda funny’, commentators said, and the description stuck. The emphasis lies firmly on ‘funny peculiar’, not ‘funny ha-ha’.

Modern Funny Cars still share the same engines as Top Fuel Dragsters, nitromethane-fuelled powerplants packing an 8,000-horsepower punch. Funny Car bodies sit on tube framed chassis and hinge at the back to allow access to the engine and drivers seat, their composite-material bodies might nowadays bear just a slim resemblance to the production cars on which they are modelled, but production-car bodies are not designed to hit 300mph in five seconds flat from a standing start. Channelling such groundshaking force through a short wheelbase makes a Funny famously hard to handle – the racetrack may be straight but the cars often have other ideas.

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