BangShift.com World Series of Pro Mod Returns at Bradenton with Invite-Only, $100,000-to-Win Shootout

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Planet Sequence of Pro Mod Returns at Bradenton with Invite-Only, $100,000-to-Gain Shootout

BRADENTON, Fla. (Nov. 2, 2022) – Drag Illustrated announced nowadays the return of its well-known Earth Sequence of Professional Mod (WSOPM), an invitation-only, $100,000-to-gain function celebrating the Pro Modified division. New for 2023, the race will acquire location March 3-5 at Bradenton Motorsports Park in Bradenton, Florida, with an outlaw eighth-mile structure. Forty motorists will be invited, and 32 drivers will qualify for the main area.

“Pro Mod is the universal language of drag racing,” claimed Wes Buck, founder and editorial director, Drag Illustrated. “This is the premier stock of pro-stage, heads-up race automobiles on the earth. This is a manufacturer of drag racing that has a one of a kind cult next and, in my impression, is dwelling to lots of of our sport’s largest personalities and most competitive racers. It is a fashion of drag racing that has grown by way of regional sequence all throughout the nation and about the earth that are healthful and flourishing. It’s our objective with the Globe Sequence of Professional Mod to provide racers from all people several sanctions and collection and allow them race for the major purse in Professional Modified heritage, on the grandest phase and under the brightest lights probable.”

Bradenton Motorsports Park has played host to high-stage Professional Modified races for years, but the track’s owner because 2018, Victor Alvarez, has taken that to a new degree. The 50th yearly Snowbird Outlaw Nationals in December 2021 paid $50,000 to the Pro Mod winner, and this year’s Snowbirds Professional Mod winner will walk absent with $51,000. Bringing the WSOPM to Bradenton is even more evidence of Alvarez’s dedication to Professional Mod racing at the Florida Gulf Coastline observe.

“The dream due to the fact the starting has been to have a few large-time, place races for Professional Mod at Bradenton just about every calendar year,” Alvarez said. “This is a dream occur legitimate and a great healthy. The Snowbirds is great and the U.S. Road Nationals is good. I’ve usually felt like there was possibility to do a thing genuinely awesome in March, but I wanted it to be the correct fit. Wes and I share this eyesight of generating drag racing as a complete the finest it can be, but we are really passionate about Pro Mod in individual. We have been conversing about this race for likely a 12 months now, and it just would make feeling. This is just a thing that we have to do.”

“We could not be extra fired up to convey the WSOPM to Bradenton,” Buck additional. “This is an unbelievable component of the place that delivers the situations we’re after for a genuine spot celebration. With the incredible selection of improvements and over-all investment decision built by Victor Alvarez, it’s a great residence for us. We are searching for extended-expression companions and prospects to mature. We sense BMP ticks all these containers. Vic is a gentleman who shares our enthusiasm and enthusiasm for drag racing. He’s a danger taker, and I think personally that there is no close to the magic we can make collectively.”

Continuing with the custom established at the three WSOPMs in the earlier, the winner of the 2023 WSOPM will wander absent with $100,000. It is the most significant purse in Professional Modified record and a single of the biggest solitary-event purses in drag racing. Buck and Alvarez both equally really feel strongly that the $100,000 prize is a important ingredient of the event.

“These racers are entitled to to operate for major money,” Buck reported. “They have earned to have this instant, a true circle-the-dates-on-your-calendar occasion that folks talk about all year extended. In purchase to obtain that, the variety has to be significant. I have an understanding of it just cannot occur every single weekend. But people zeroes straight impact the fan fascination, the participation, the enthusiasm, the electricity, the ambiance. Nearly every single component of this race is impacted by the quantity of zeroes on the flyer.”

“As a fan, I have normally felt Professional Mod warrants to race on a major phase for big dollars and to be the demonstrate,” extra Alvarez, who grew to become an instant Professional Mod lover when he initially observed them race in 2015. “It’s a way to suggestion our hat to the Pro Mod course and demonstrate how a great deal we care about it, how substantially we enjoy it, and how passionate we experience about it. But also, we know that big payout will deliver an astounding race. It’s likely to be historic. It is heading to be the starting of some thing we’ll hopefully do for many years to arrive.”

Like the initially WSOPM in 2017, the 2023 edition will aspect an invitation-only subject of standouts from across the many unique collection and sanctioning bodies that give Pro Mod or Pro Mod-style courses.

“We’re wanting for the biggest names, biggest personalities and the baddest doorslammers on the planet,” Buck claimed. “The men and women of all ages that will be invited to take part in WSOPM, probably most importantly, will be racers that share our eyesight for this function and Professional Modified drag racing in common. They are prepared contributors who are eager and energized to blaze a new trail, move outdoors the norm and do a thing different. Drag racing is full of traditions, and WSOPM is the most recent just one.”

Buck has presently started off extending invites to motorists, which will start out currently being announced in the coming weeks.

Not like the previous events Drag Illustrated has promoted, the 2023 WSOPM will use an outlaw eighth-mile format. The principles package will resemble the policies currently in location for BMP’s current Pro Mod occasions, so motorists from NHRA Professional Mod, PDRA Pro Nitrous and Pro Boost, NMCA Xtreme Pro Mod, MWDRS Pro Mod, NEOPMA, and outside of can contend jointly on a stage taking part in subject.

“It’s no solution that the substantial the greater part of Professional Mod racers, not only listed here in The usa, but about the globe, have gravitated to outlaw eighth-mile competitiveness,” Buck explained. “First and foremost, we figure out the security implications. But over and above that, we identify that this is a racer-welcoming structure. We appreciate quarter-mile drag racing and we are undoubtedly appreciative of the opportunities that exist for racers to compete about that length, but when we glimpse at what serves the biggest group of folks, what lets us to consist of the most diverse and aggressive group of drivers is without issue the eighth-mile format.”

Supplemental information and facts, such as function sponsors and supporting classes, will be announced in the coming weeks. Drag Illustrated and Bradenton Motorsports Park will host a WSOPM press convention on Thursday, Dec. 8 at 1 p.m. EST at the Performance Racing Business (PRI) Display in Indianapolis.