Wednesday, March 02, 2011

Today's Drag Racing News

News
Walk with drag racing legends
Charlotte Observer
Purchase a $45-$55 grandstand ticket on April 17 and walk down drag strip with drag racing legends Kenny Bernstein, Don Garlits, Connie Kalitta and Shirley Muldowney. The public can take a walk with drag racing legends next month at Concord's Z-Max ...
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Fans, NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racers Compete in Sonoma for Charity
WhoWon.com
Drag racing fans have the opportunity to battle on the Infineon Raceway kart track with racers from the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series at the 9th annual NHRA Tour de Charity. Infineon Raceway will host the charitable event on Saturday, March 26, ...
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Tire chunking still a problem
Drag Racing Online Magazine
In the meantime Vandergriff is headed to the Arabian Penninsula and the country of Abu Dhabi to attend that country's Drag Racing Festival and have some meetings with the intent of developing a schedule for The Yas Marina team (driver, Rod Fuller) that ...
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Drag Racing Online Magazine
ADRL Taps Former IHRA, NHRA Sales Manager as Director of Contingency
WhoWon.com
The American Drag Racing League (ADRL), the world's premier eighth-mile drag racing league, announced on Tuesday that Karen Raffa has been named the ADRL's Director of Contingency. With previous successful stints in both the NHRA and IHRA, Raffa brings ...
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Going big for charity: Truck rodeo benefits Special Olympics
Pacific Daily News
By Faye Varias • For Northern Weekly • March 2, 2011 Big boy toys and drag racing games -- these were just some of the exciting features at this year's annual Guam Contractors Association's Construction and Truck Rodeo. The event started Feb. ...
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Former Anheuser-Busch Sports Marketing Manager Joins ADRL As Director of ...
WhoWon.com
The American Drag Racing League (ADRL) announced on Monday that Karen Holschlag has been named the new Director of Sponsorship Development for the world's premier eighth-mile drag racing league. The appointment comes after Holschlag's successful and ...
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Cha Cha Muldowney Chats!
Autochannel (press release)
Drag racing icon Shirley Muldowney, a 3-time NHRA Top Fuel world champion and Grand Marshal of the 2011 March Meet at Auto Club Famoso, Mar. 18-20, looks back and lets loose BAKERSFIELD, Mar. 1, 2011: In a world of changes, Shirley Muldowney remains ...
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Jay Turner Relives Terrifying Crash at Mardi Gras Nitro Jam
WhoWon.com
Despite all of the pageantry, despite all the flashy cars and can-you-believe it moments the sport of drag racing creates, behind the wheel, or in this case behind the handlebars, are human beings doing what they love most all while trying to put on a ...
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NASCAR - Sprint Cup - Kobalt Tools 400 Preview
News & Observer
The track features a 1.5-mile superspeedway, a 2.5-mile FIA-approved road course, a 4000-foot drag strip, paved and dirt short tracks,motocross circuits, stadium truck racing facilities, go-kart and Legends carslayouts as well as a Junior Drag racing ...
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Blogs
Kobayashi admits Drag Reduction System doubts | 2011 F1 testing
By Keith Collantine
(thats Drag racing itsn?) Reply. DGR-F1 says: March 1, 2011 at 2:37 pm. Reading between the lines here, is anyone of the opinion that the FIA are only expecting the drivers to overtake in the designated area, using the KERS and the wing ...
F1 Fanatic - The Formula 1 Blog - http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/

Web
Walk with drag racing legends | www.thatsracin.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 ...
www.thatsracin.com/.../walk-with-drag-racing-legends.html
Motor Sports » Drag Racing: Test and Tune (Jamwest) : A Jamaica ...
Drag Racing: Test and Tune (Jamwest). When I rolled into the test and tune session I saw a few colleagues and got the scoop re who was 'running' and who was ...
blogs.jamaica-gleaner.com/motorsports/?p=772