NHRA - National Hot Rod Association

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – The NHRA North Central Division Moser Sportsman Shootout is set to take place on Saturday, August 25, in conjunction with the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series event at Beech Bend Raceway Park, Bowling Green, Ky. 

Jacob Elrod returns this year and has again qualified in two categories, Super Gas and Super Comp.  He is joined by division points leaders Lester Johnson (Top Sportsman), Devin Isenhower (Super Gas) and Dalton Deffenbaugh (Super Street) who lead the field in search of the Moser Sportsman Shootout Championship

Through a yearlong point’s battle, the top two Moser Sportsman Shootout point’s earners in each of the seven classes in competition were slotted into the 16-car field while Ed Jirousek and Leo Zynda will complete the ladder as the Moser Shootout Wild Card entries. 

The Moser Sportsman Shootout is unique in that racers from seven entirely different class structures Super Stock, Stock, Super Comp, Super Gas, Super Street, Top Dragster and Top Sportsman will be racing each other. Eliminations will be in a dial-in/breakout handicap format on an eighth-mile. The Christmas tree is in a full countdown mode with the CrossTalk feature not in use.

A $15,000 cash purse is up for grabs with up to $5,000 going to the winner, $2,000 to the runner-up, $1,000 to each of the semifinalists, $700 to the quarter-finalists and $400 to each of the remaining event qualifiers.