Pro Turbo VW Drag Racing: PRA '94

PRA Pro Turbo VW drag racing has been called "the class where anything can happen", and you can see that in this video. Watch a group of hardcore VW drag racers push their force-fed flat fours to the limit, and beyond! Volkswagen drag racing legend Chris Bubetz was the man to beat in 1994, and the points title chase went down to the wire, with three race car drivers still in the hunt at the final race of the year.
Ron Townsend was the 1993 PRA Pro Turbo points champion, and in 1994 he debuted a Dave Kawell-built turbo engine that had record-setting potential in it. Manny Flores in Yellow Trouble worked his way up the ladder to lead the 1994 points chase. Steve Ortega brought out a sweet ride that also had the potential to shake up the class rankings. VW drag racing doesn't get much better than this!
This video wraps up with an onboard camera pass, from startup to shutdown, with Chris Bubetz behind the wheel of his record-setting VW drag racing bug. Onboard camera footage is a given in 2015, with a GoPro camera, but back in 1994, things were much more difficult. It had to be done by bolting the Hi8 videotape recorder to a padded box on the floor. There was a remote video camera head bolted to the roll cage, that had it's own power supply. Accelerate too quickly, and the tape would start skipping in the recorder, and ruin the footage. Not a trivial undertaking, by any means.

[@otrotipo6736]

Please post more of these PRA videos

[@vwdarrin]

This video never gets old. Definitely West Coast gold. I watched this video over and over when I was laying in bed with a broken neck for six months in the hospital it motivated me to walk again and get back to my shop

[@DragRacingTV]

glad to hear you are up and back at the vw stuff!

[@inthefastlanebro]

The way he drove that thing back lawd

[@8sdrager]

Were you that made those footages at that time?

[@DragRacingTV]

8sdrager yes, i shot all of these videos, starting in about 1993... thanks for watching.

[@8sdrager]

+DragRacingTV OMG! You are my hero! And we even know each other. You have change my life for ever, since I saw this PRA'94 video for the first time! How is your name? Bryan Robinson Sr.?

[@DragRacingTV]

8sdrager Bryan is the photographer that shot the photos that were on the pra tape covers... we used to work the same booth at the races; sacramento bugorama, phoenix bugorama, etc... when pra '94 came out, it was the first of it's kind, no one else had ever done anything like it with volkswagens.

[@8sdrager]

Ok. Do you have Facebbok? Can I add you? And Bryan, has too?

[@DragRacingTV]

8sdrager i don't do facebook, and i don't think that bryan does either? thx for checking out the videos, i'm working on putting up more of the old PRA stuff.

[@11secghia]

@@DragRacingTV Hey Dan Ghia Jason is still waiting for those uploads!!

[@DragRacingTV]

@@11secghia Ghia Jason, now that's a blast from the past! Was it Real Street in Las Vegas? I can't even remember what year that was.