Melanie Salemi Looking Forward to Hometown Event this Weekend!

Melanie Salemi’s 68 Firebird Pro Mod will make a rare appearance in the Western New York area this weekend at Empire Dragway in Leicester, New York July 5th-6th. Salemi, who is fresh off her runner-up performance at the PDRA Summer Nationals in Valdosta, Georgia, will be joined by an impressive bunch of other national and regional based Pro Mod’s to do battle on the famed Empire Dragway track.

She stated, “I haven’t raced at Empire since the 2014 season when I competed in my Top Dragster so I’m excited to get back and race locally for all of our family, friends and fans. Owner Jerry Scaccia and track manager Patrick Budd have been working hard on all of the great improvements at the facility and each year it gets better and better. There is nothing that builds our sport more than having a quality facility and they are on point with that. It’s also very special to be able to compete at a track that Jim Salemi and Mike Stawicki competed at on a weekly basis back some 30 years ago to build the foundation for Jon and I to carry on the tradition and love for this sport”.

The action gets started with test runs on Friday July 5th at 2 pm which then leads into a full day of racing on Saturday July 6th. Qualifying runs at 1 pm and 3 pm followed by elimination rounds of the quickest 8 Pro Mod’s starting at 5 pm with the winner taking the $5,000 winning purse.  This will also be an exciting event for the Salemi’s as both Evan and Akyra will be competing in the Jr. Dragster Class and Lucas and Angelo with be competing in the bracket race on their snowmobiles.