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teams who chose to focus on pursuing a PDRA world championship. A major thank you to Red Line Oil and all of our other marketing partners for continuing to believe in the PDRA, our racers, and our programs moving forward.”
Crossnoe also announced new marketing partners for the 2025 season. Killin’ Time Racing signed on as a Major Partner offering contingency rewards. Performance Torque Converters( PTC) is the new presenting sponsor for PDRA Pro 632. Pro Street will also see updated sponsors in 2025, with Liberty’ s Gears stepping up as the title sponsor and Menscer Motorsports shifting to the presenting sponsor role. Brian’ s Heating & Cooling LLC is the new presenting sponsor in Super Street, and Derrick Wolfe Trucking will serve as presenting sponsor in Top Dragster. Stainless Headers joined on as the Official Header and Exhaust Components of the PDRA.
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“ We strive to constantly provide value for all of our partners, from class title and presenting sponsors to overall series sponsors and contingency sponsors,” Crossnoe said.“ Similarly, our racers believe in supporting |
the brands that support the series. We’ re grateful for our new and current partners.”
Power Purse, a new program bringing new and existing marketing partners to another level of involvement with the series and its competitors, was announced in late January. This new program will directly
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double the winner’ s purse of a marketing partner’ s choosing for one particular race, hence the name, Power Purse.
“ Coming off a highly competitive 2024 season, rolling into the PDRA offseason with a huge increase to the overall series championship fund by over $ 100,000, we still felt
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like we needed to do more,” said Tyler Crossnoe, series director.“ Our teams work hard year in and year out to chase event wins that can lead to a championship, but there’ s something about winning an event on the calendar that is different than the others. We’ ve seen it with the DI Winter Series over the last few months – chasing a large money payout is intriguing and can drive the best in the world to push even harder than before.”
The goal of PDRA Power Purse is to not only provide specialty events for each class throughout the year but to highlight every class at least once throughout the season.
“ Every class within the PDRA roster has stars from Pro Nitrous and Pro Boost to Jr. Dragsters – there is a showcase of talent throughout the entire series,” said Tommy Franklin, owner and three-time Pro Nitrous world champion.“ We have built the PDRA to be consistent and be sustainable to continue to grow year after year. I struggle to take away once we have made a step, so we all agreed that this Power Purse program can create a bigmoney feel at a series event once
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