A pair of three-time world champions will make runs down the track Saturday to highlight action for the 64th annual World Series of Drag Racing, presented by O’Reilly Auto Parts, at Cordova International Raceway.

Three-time NHRA Top Fuel World Champion Larry Dixon and Del Worsham, who has IHRA and NHRA Funny Car world championships along with a NHRA Top Fuel world title, headline the talent for the world’s longest continually running drag-racing event.

Dixon has 62 NHRA national-event wins, which rank him second all-time among Top Fuel drivers. His totals include four wins in the prestigious U.S. Nationals and four wins in the Gatornationals. He earned two championships driving for the legendary Don “The Snake” Prudhomme and one with Alan Johnson Racing.

Worsham (pictured below), a 33-time NHRA nitro winner, has two Funny Car entries. He won his first Funny championship in 1992 with the International Hot Rod Association. Nearly two decades later, he won the NHRA Top Fuel title in 2011. Four years after that accomplishment, he added a NHRA Funny Car title, joining Kenny Bernstein and Gary Scelzi as the only drivers in history to win both NHRA Top Fuel and Funny Car championships.

Grand marshals for the event are the legendary tandem of driver Mike Dunn and his crew chief Roland Leong.

Dunn is a 22-time national-event winner, and one of only four drivers to win 10 more races in both Top Fuel and Funny Car competition. He currently serves as IHRA president and continues in a role as on-air analyst for the ESPN network’s broadcasts of the Summit Sportsman National Championship.

As car owner of the famed “Hawaiian” dragsters, Leong fielded cars for such drivers as Danny Ongais, Prudhomme, Mike Snively, Larry Reyes, Butch Mass and Dunn. Leong won the U.S. Nationals three times as a car owner. Later in his career, Leong served as the engine tuner for Prudhomme’s Funny Car team with driver Ron Capps.

Plenty of other great racers and racecars are on tap.

Dom Lagana, who made the fastest IHRA Top Fuel pass in history in 2013, will be hauling his dragster to Cordova, while Jack Wyatt and Dale Creasy are bringing their Nitro Funny Cars.

The always popular Nostalgia Funny Cars will be on hand with entries from Doc Halladay, John Lawson, Joe Hass and Troy Martin with the iconic Chi-Town Hustler. Other Nostalgia entries include: 16 Nostalgia Gassers, eight Midwest Nostalgia Pro Stocks, the Victory Nostaglia Super Stock division and a pair of legendary Fuel Altered machines — Ron Hope’s Rat Trap and Dave Hough’s Nanook.

Fans can also take another ride down memory lane with the Beedy & Malloy and Beedy & Lutz Injected Nitromethane Front Engine Dragsters.

Al Tucci, known to drag racing fans throughout the Midwest for his famous call of a “Beeeauutiful Smoky Burnout,” will serve as announcer of the World Series of Drag Racing for the first time in his three-decade-plus career.

There are 12 cars from the Chicagoland Super Stocks, while other action includes Mountain Motor Pro Stocks, a Quick 16 race, Richard Hutchins’ Chevy Rebellion Wheelstander.

For jet car fans, there are Danny Sullivan’s Chicago Rush and Scott Holdridge’s 57 Caliber Jet Dragsters. And for drag bike fans, there are four Top Fuel Harleys ready to scream down the drag strip.

To top it off, there is a Pro Mod race featuring a $9,000 purse.

Adult tickets are $25 for Friday, $35 for Saturday and $12 for Sunday. A three-day “Super Pass” for the entire weekend is available for $65. Tickets for 6-12 are $5 each day, while those 5 and under are admitted free. Discounted tickets are available at participating O’Reilly Auto Parts Stores.

About O’Reilly Auto Parts:
O’Reilly Automotive, Inc. is one of the largest specialty retailers of automotive aftermarket parts, tools, supplies, equipment and accessories in the United States, serving both professional service providers and do-it-yourself customers. Founded in 1957 by the O’Reilly family, the company operates nearly 5,000 stores in 47 states. To find your nearest O’Reilly location, visit www.oreillyauto.com.

About Cordova International Raceway:
Cordova International Raceway (CIR) is home of the 64th annual World Series of Drag Racing, the world’s longest continually running drag racing event. Located in the Quad Cities region of Illinois and Iowa, the 190-acre facility features a 1/4-mile drag racing strip sanctioned by the International Hot Rod Association.

Weekend drag racing events are held all summer. Specialty events include the Super Chevy Show, the School’s Out Junior Nationals and Door Warz. For more information on CIR, visit www.racecir.com or connect on Facebook @RaceCordova.

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