Street Car Takeover Series Releases New Rules for the 2024 Season, Adds a New Class, and Social Media Responds
Hosting several events across the US every year aimed at the street car market, the Street Car Takeover has proven to be a popular choice for street car enthusiasts, as well as several drag-and-drive competitors as well.
They recently unveiled a 2024 schedule, as well as changes to a couple of their popular classes, and a new class added to the roster, that has social media buzzing.
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The rules for the Street Racer and Heavyweight classes now ban the use of methanol as a fuel option (although Street Racer still allows it for 4-cylinder and 6-cylinder entries). Methanol injection kits for boosted applications are also still allowed.
Street Car Takeover is not the first to ban methanol as a fuel choice in “street-car” classes, as some stand-alone events have done the same in the past.
Interesting of note though, the larger drag-and-drive events: Sick Week, Sick Summer, Hot Rod Drag Week and Rocky Mountain Race Week rules do not have any fuel restrictions.
Also, the popular TX2K and FL2K events allow all fuels in their street car classes.
Street Car Takeover also added a new class to their line-up, the Extreme 28s class. Contrary to how some 28-inch limited tire classes are run, this one will run on the quarter-mile distance, AND the clocks / scoreboards will be on!
With minimal rules like ‘body must retain factory quarter panels, cars must utilize stock front suspension, any rear suspension permitted, wheelie bars permitted, Lexan / composite windows permitted’ among the wording, some very quick cars could come out to play.
The class will run at the Bradenton Florida, Kansas City Missouri, Dallas Texas, Charlotte North Carolina and Indianapolis Indiana stops.
Written by Derek Putnam. Photos courtesy of Sick the Magazine, Jeremy Ortiz.
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