JEGS RENEWS COMMITMENT TO NHRA

by Bobby Bennett    Fri, 2019-08-30 16:05

JEGS announced on Saturday at the Chevrolet Performance U.S. Nationals that it has extended its NHRA sponsorships of the JEGS Allstars program and the JEGS NHRA SPORTSnationals event. The multi-year extensions will ensure the longevity of an Allstars competition which has been around since 2002 and came on as the title sponsor of the SPORTSnationals in 2005.

“The Allstars is an awesome event that the family has raced in and been a part of and won,” said Scott Woodruff, JEGS director of media & motorsports. “It’s something that’s really near and dear to our hearts and we just really enjoy supporting the sportsman racers as another way to say thank you.

“As most people in the sport know, it kind of puts them on stage and makes them kind of the stars on Saturday during Chicago, and it’s something that they really appreciate as far as the competitors, and it’s just a fun deal for us.”

The JEGS Allstars event is a race-within-a-race bonus program for the very best in the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series which takes place annually at the Route 66 NHRA Nationals in Chicago. It’s one of the most anticipated events of the season when these high-performing sportsman racers hit the track to face off in a battle for individual and team honors. It pits the top points earners from NHRA’s seven geographic divisions and four Top Alcohol regions against each other in the culmination of a yearlong points battle

 

The JEGS NHRA SPORTSnationals is a premier standalone event for competitors in the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series. This event awards national points to competitors and features three days of intense racing action from the top sportsman racers in the country. Widely regarded as one of the biggest and most prestigious weekends in sportsman racing, the 2019 event will take place at National Trail Raceway in Hebron, Ohio, September 20-22.

“I think what makes this event so unique is the fact that it is a national event points structure for just sportsman racers,” Woodruff explained. “So it’s really like the sportsman racers having their own national event.”

Expect neat things in Columbus, Woodruff said.

“This year the event is coming up here at mid-September,” Woodruff explained. “We decided we’re going to do a big bonfire. We’re going to do some movies at night rather than just a traditional racer barbecue and just kind of do more of a Midwest feel to it with a little bonfire and all that kind of stuff. That’s something kind of fun we’re looking forward too.”

 
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