Special awards for the Inaugural Funny Car Reunion were announced today at a lavish ceremony at Bob's Berserko Lounge in Charlotte, NC. An additional $1,250 in cash and merchandise is up for grabs for drivers participating in what is going to be a history-making event. Awards include:

The Doug Herbert Performance Parts/Draglist.com Burnout Challenge will award $250 in cash from Draglist.com and $250 in merchandise from Doug Herbert Performance Parts to the driver who, in the crowd's opinion, does the best burnout. This is a contingent award; decals from the sponsors must be on the race cars in order to take advantage of this award. They will be available at the Funny Car Reunion.

The DragRacingOnLine.com Dry Hop Contest will award $250 in cash to the driver who does the best dry hop in the opinion of Jeff Burk, Publisher/Editor of DragRacingOnLine.com. Again, decals will be required to cash in and will be available at the event.

And here's a real special award. Freddy Frey and Jim Fox, owners of the "Frantic Ford" Mustang Funny Car in the late 70s have put up $250 for Low E.T. and $250 for Top Speed of the event in the memory of their driver "Dodger" Glenn who was killed in a racing accident in 1978. This is a non-contingent award.

If a driver does everything right by running below 6.50 twice, wins both contests, sets Low E.T. and Top Speed, he can walk away with $2,750 for two runs, not a bad payout for a "Classic" Funny Car.