The Southewest Junior Fuel Association

Thank you for stopping by the official Southwest Junior Fuel Association website. Our goal is to provide a nostalgia style heads up drag racing event to bring back the feeling of the good old days of the wonderful world of drag racing. Our circuit is the only place in the southwest you will find front motored junior fuel dragsters in action!

We currently have 25+ active teams and interest in the SWJFA series continues to grow. Many of our members are original junior fuel drivers from the past that are still racing on the strip today. All of our teams are professional from the word go, not only in appearance, but attitude. Each car is required to have a (NHRA or IHRA) chassis certification along with each driver having a current competition license. Our focus is on giving the spectators and tracks the best show possible and having fun!

Heads-Up! Old School! Front Engine Nostalgia Drag Racing!

Competition Sales of Dallas Renews
"Luck of the Draw" Bonus for 2012

Bill Mitchell and Competition Sales of Dallas have renewed their "Luck of the Draw" for the 2012 Southwest Junior Fuel Association season! The SWJFA would like to say Thank You and we look forward to another great season of racing and partnership with Competition Sales of Dallas. Check out the Comp Sales website at www.competitionsalesofdallas.com.

Pace Returns To The Cockpit
In Junior Fuel Dragster

David Pace of Longview, Texas is eagerly awaiting the start of the 2012 racing season as he returns to the cockpit of a front engine dragster to compete in the Southwest Junior Fuel Association. Pace will slide in the cockpit of the 2011 S.W.J.F.A. Championship winning car owned by fellow Texan Darrell Walden. Walden’s machine is a Neil & Parks built junior fueler that claimed five top qualifying positions and four wins in six races during the 2011 season, with Scott Parks behind the wheel.

Parks will focus his 2012 efforts on the father and son operated team out of Kansas, which puts Pace in the seat of the hottest car in the Southwest Junior Fuel series as Pace & Walden hope to continue to lead the pack. Pace is no newbie to the drivers seat with decades of experience driving dragsters of all types, from Pro Comp to Top Fuel.

(Photo by Les Welch)

Pace’s career highlights include a runner-up finish in Top Fuel at the 1981 U.S. Nationals and Top 10 finish in the NHRA Top Fuel points standings that season, behind the wheel of the Texas based Carroll Bros. “Texas Whips” Top Fueler. Pace set several top speed and elapsed time records and is a proud member of the NHRA 250 mph club. In 2003, Pace returned to action behind the wheel of several front engine Top Fuel dragsters and is looking forward to his 2012 campaign with Darrell Walden in the Southwest Junior Fuel Association.

"I was both surprised and honored when Darrell Walden asked me to join his championship winning team for next season. He and I go way back, racing together in east Texas in the 1970s, but we hadn’t seen each other for over thirty years before meeting up again in 2011. I attended several of the SWJFA races this year, got a chance to watch Darrell, Frank Parks, and Scott Parks in action, and have seen what a first class operation Darrell runs. There will be a learning curve, as I'm more experienced driving with a Crowerglide type clutch and direct drive, so I'm expecting it to be a humbling experience for a while. Scott Parks is as good as they come and will be a very difficult act to follow, but I hope I can get up to speed fairly quickly. I'm looking forward to running with the SWFJA, since I'll get to race with several long time friends who are in the group, and most of the races are more or less local and won’t require lots of travel or time away from work," says Pace.