Monday, March 21, 2011

Today's Drag Racing News

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Rival bidders make drag racing track plans
ABC Online
A plan for a motor sport complex on the old Mitsubishi testing site at Tailem Bend, outside Adelaide, could sink a rival plan for a drag racing site at Gillman in Adelaide's north-west. Motor Sport Minister Kevin Foley indicated last week the ...
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ABC Online
BANNING: Council to revisit proposed drag-racing strip
Press-Enterprise
By ERIN WALDNER A proposed drag-racing strip that Banning initially embraced but ultimately rejected is back before the City Council. A public hearing on Drag City, as the strip was once called, is set for Tuesday's council meeting. ...
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Jim Rose 2003 Cobra Mustang – Ford Drag Team
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Jim's love of drag racing started when he was a little kid growing up in Southern California in the 1950's and early 1960's. Jim says that he had the good fortune to have understanding parents who would take him to some of the greatest strips of all ...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Dragstrip Idea Nears 4000 Votes
Indiana's NewsCenter
By John W. Davis FORT WAYNE, Ind. (Indiana's NewsCenter) - Viewer comments are divided over whether Fort Wayne leaders should spend part of the city's $78 million legacy fund on a drag racing strip on the city's south side. ...
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Muscle car season opener concludes in Manatee
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
By CHRIS DELL, Correspondent BRADENTON -- For die-hard drag racing fans across the state of Florida, the NMCA Flowmaster Muscle Car Nationals is more than simply four rubber tires and a track. It's the smell of burnt rubber drifting throughout the ...
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Wasatch Pallet leads the way after Day 2
StandardNet
By Standard-Examiner staff OGDEN --- These guys don't guzzle jet fuel, but the quarter horses running at the world chariot racing championships are as impressive as any drag racing team around. The second round of the 2011 Cutter and Chariot Racing ...
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StandardNet
Drag races plane scintillating
Lismore Northern Star
THE airport at Casino exploded into life on Saturday as more than 1000 drag-racing fans defied the weather to watch pumped-up cars hurtle down the 200-metre landing strip. Rain hampered some earlier performances, but a combination of hot tyres and ...
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Racers out of time?
San Angelo Standard Times
"They're not trying to get out of it because they hate drag racing or anything," Hopson said. "They had some health issues with a family member. They've been doing it for seven years. They sort of want to ease out and keep it going. ...
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Rival bidders make drag racing track plans - Yahoo!7
A plan for a motor sport complex on the old Mitsubishi testing site at Tailem Bend, outside Adelaide, could sink a rival plan for a drag racing site at ...
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