Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Today's Drag Racing News

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Drag racing champ Payne pumped about Pomona
Radioactive Drag Racing News
If the wind was blowing just right, multi-time drag racing champion Jay Payne could probably stand on the front porch of his Ontario, Calif., home and hear the roar of the engines emanating from Auto Club Raceway whenever the drags are in town. ...
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BIC to stage weekend drag racing round
Gulf Daily News
THE Bahrain International Circuit (BIC) will host this weekend another round of the 2010/2011 Bahrain National Drag Racing Championship. The event, which will mark the third meeting of the season, gets underway tomorrow with a 'Test and Tune', ...
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Pomona: Pre-event notes, schedule
Motorsport.com
WHAT: 51st annual Kragen O'Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Winternationals presented by Valvoline, the first of 22 events in the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series. Drivers in three categories -- Top Fuel, Funny Car and Pro Stock -- earn points leading to ...
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THEN & NOW: 'Snake' one of the storied NHRA drivers
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
By the time he was a student at Burbank High School, drag racing had captured his fancy. Hanging out at the San Fernando Raceway, Long Beach Lions drag strip or Pomona Fairgrounds, Prudhomme eventually caught on as a crewman on Tommy Ivo's team. ...
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Two more AA/FCs being built for DRO AA/FC Challenge
Drag Racing Online Magazine
[02/21/11] American star Von Smith earned the rare distinction of holding simultaneous World Championships on two different continents; the current NHRA/GSA Pro Modified World Champ won the Arabian Drag Racing League's Battle For The Belts in his Barwa ...
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AIRAID announces fantasy drag racing game
Radioactive Drag Racing News
AIRAID, The Performance Intake Company, has announced a new, five-class 2011 online NHRA fantasy drag racing game to benefit the Wally Parks Motorsports Museum. For an Internet service fee of $10, payable through PayPal, drag racing fans can match ...
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Slot car racing comeback
MyFoxOrlando.com
Haire is bringing back slot racing one turn at a time; re-inventing drag racing one blur at a time. "They'll do a 132mph -- that's the record -- at 4/10ths of a second," says Ed Newman, a hobbyist who says over the years he's dumped $20000 into the ...
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Cowin Blazes At Nostalgic Willowbank Event
PaddockTalk
Magazine Nostalgia Drag Racing Series saw the 31 year old travel the quarter-mile in 5.88 seconds at 239.61 miles per hour, edging out the previous Australian ‘quickest’ Nostalgia Nitro Funny Car mark of 5.89 seconds, which he set in November of ...
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Celebrity drivers announced for Long Beach Gran Prix
Long Beach Press-Telegram
Among the pros will be "drifting" champion Kenshiro Gushi, top import drag-racing professional and founder of World Motorsports Christian Rado and USAC National midget car series champion Kody Swanson. decades, the Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race has managed ...
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Cayuga back in NHRA fold
Hamilton Spectator
As the largest drag racing body in the world, the National Hot Rod Association has added Cayuga to its 140-track membership. Cayuga is one of a handful of NHRA tracks in Canada, and is the only one in Ontario. When the track and the IHRA (International ...
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