Sunday, February 27, 2011

Today's Drag Racing News

News
Walk with drag racing legends
News & Observer
Lukas Johnson By Lukas Johnson - ljohnson@newsofcabarrus.com The public can take a walk with drag racing legends next month at Concord's Z-Max Dragway, as part of the 60th anniversary of the National Hot Rod Association. ...
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News & Observer
Dixon Claims Pomona Pole With Record Pass
RacinToday.com
(File photo courtesy of the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series) Larry Dixon had a national-record pass of 3.770 at 324.98 mph to claim the No. 1 qualifying position in Top Fuel on Saturday at the season-opening Kragen O'Reilly Auto Parts NHRA ...
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Valdosta's King of the Hill Drag Race
WCTV
"It helps them to work together as a team," said Andre Newson, who coordinated the drag racing event. "And it builds character in the child and the father leads him on and pushing him to do well." During the event, a Joey Logaro No. ...
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Looking ahead: McMillen helping develop young mechanics, drivers
San Bernardino Sun
But he's more concerned about who will replace the older generation of drag-racing drivers and who will be the next exceptional crew chiefs. As he and his Hoosier Thunder Motorsports team compete this weekend at Fairplex in the NHRA's season-opening ...
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Johnny Ahten and The Ahten Family Racing Renews with Clean Boost Performance Oil
PR.com (press release)
Los Angeles, CA, February 26, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Bringing together the support to facilitate a drag racing initiative is never an easy task for any race team. Despite those odds, it is with great pleasure for Johnny Ahten to announce that he has ...
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Life stories: Dragster chose family over fast lane
Arizona Daily Star
A former pro stock racer and national record holder, Rotty was a perennial top 10 finisher on the drag-racing circuit in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He was inducted into the Arizona Drag Race Hall of Fame in 2006. Rotty's skills under the hood and ...
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Bridgwater motorcycle group get in a spin
Bridgwater Mercury
AFB (Andy Forbes Bukingham) Drag Racing will perform "burn out" wheel spins in the Action Arena, at an event expected to attract 27000 people from March 4 to 6. The team sport a 2600cc Nitro burning twin cylinder motorcycle, which is capable of ...
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Strange sports: Vehicles tear through mud pit
Billings Gazette
The gist: The off-road sport is also called mud running, muddin' or mud drag racing. Trucks or SUVs compete in several classes, depending on tire size and modifications. A Hill and Hole course has hills spaced between mud sections so faster vehicles ...
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Wix Filters announce multiple drag racing sponsorships - Sports ...
Wix Filters announce multiple drag racing sponsorships, Motorsport Sponsorship news from SportsPro Media North America.
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Motor Sports » Drag Racing: Rise of the machines at Jamwest : A ...
Drag racing takes center stage this weekend. On Saturday, the test and tune session will give the green light to the first of five scheduled drag racing ...
blogs.jamaica-gleaner.com/motorsports/?p=766
A drag racing beachhead in Concord? | Business | Concord News
On Thursday afternoon officials at the track announced that www.visitmyrtlebeach .com would sponsor the April drag racing events at zMax. ...
concord.wbtv.com/news/business/drag-racing.../59617