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Preferred seating offered for advance ticket purchases at NHRA Unleashed events

Friday, April 02, 2010

Those who purchase advance tickets for NHRA Unleashed events through NHRA.com will have access to a preferred-seating section at each venue. Advance tickets for each NHRA Unleashed event will go on sale at 10 a.m. EDT on each date and can be purchased by logging on to NHRA.com and clicking on the NHRA Unleashed logo box on the home page.

After purchasing tickets online and printing them, fans simply take the tickets to the NHRA Unleashed event, where they will be supplied with a wristband that will allow seating in the preferred-seating section. The seating will vary at each event and will be marked to find easily. The preferred seating will provide spectators an up-close-and-personal view of all the on-track action during the NHRA Unleashed event, a celebration of pure American horsepower.

The first of four inaugural NHRA Unleashed events will be held June 11-13 at Atlanta Dragway. Tickets for this historic event will go on sale April 3. Disrupt/ive Studios, the producer of the hit TV show Pinks, will produce a television series celebrating every aspect of these exciting events, highlighting the passion and lifestyle of NHRA competitors and fans.

NHRA Unleashed tickets are $10 for adults Friday and $20 for Saturday and Sunday. A three-day pass is $40, and a Saturday-Sunday pass is $35. Tickets for children 6 to 12 are $5 for one day, or a three-day ticket is $10. Children 5 and younger will be admitted free.

All four NHRA Unleashed events will be held at NHRA-owned and -operated facilities; the others are set for O’Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis (tickets on sale May 29 for Aug. 6-8 event), National Trail Raceway near Columbus, Ohio (tickets on sale July 6 for Sept. 10-12 event), and Gainesville Raceway (tickets on sale Aug. 28 for Nov. 5-7 event).

The NHRA Unleashed events will give fans of all makes and models of muscle cars and all things that go fast the ability to enjoy a sensory-overload high-performance weekend. Each NHRA Unleashed event will feature side-by-side doorslammer drag racing, car shows, an autocross, manufacturers’ midway, dyno, swap meets, kids zone, and much more. All of the activities will celebrate the love affair that young and old hot-rodding enthusiasts have with the car culture.

Exciting drag racing will take place during the weekend, and all event winners will receive the coveted Wally. Classes include 13.0 Heads-up, 12.0 Heads-up, 11.0 Heads-up, 10.0 Heads-up, 8.5 Heads-up, Modified Street, EZ Street, Limited Street, Outlaw 10.5, and the wildly popular Pro Mods.

NHRA and Disrupt/ive Studios plan on announcing a television partner and TV schedule for the four events in the near future.

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