The First Round of the 2024 Funny Car Cup is just around the corner, with the first of a 3 race series ( scheduled to be a 4 races as but the first event was cancelled due to a waterlogged site) is taking place at next weekend's Main Event at Santa Pod Raceway.

starting the season will be 5 teams looking to hit the ground running.

𝗞𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗻 𝗞𝗲𝗻𝘁 is the Defending series winner and will be hoping for another dominating season, In 2023 Kevin and the West Ten Motorsport team won all the events including the European Finals in a back up car after breaking the rear axle and losing a wheel during a qualifying run. The team will also be looking to repeat and improve on a huge 4.18/291.25mph pass that set a huge benchmark for all other teams. John “Bodie”Smith will once again Helm The Tuning Duties.

2022 Cup Winner 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝘀𝗵𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 and Undertaker Racing team will be looking for a return to form as last year started out with issues at the Main Event which set them back. Despite this the team still managed to end the year with 2 Finals and will be looking to return to Trophy winning ways with revamped computer systems and extra parts.

Both 𝗝𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽𝘀 and the Hawk Racing Fuel FC and 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗸 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀 with The Speedghost Motorsport took to the track to make test runs in April at the rescheduled Festival Of Power, this was the first opportunity for teams to get data ahead of the Funny Car Cup Opener. Phelps is a previous winner of the series in 2013 and winner of 2 events in 2022 and will be looking to win the series in the Mark & Jackie Hawkins owned operation.