Friday, April 08, 2011

Today's Drag Racing News

News
Mopars, Hemi Shootout and more at the Strip this weekend
Drag Racing Online Magazine
A special race called Pony Car Wars provides a chance for the American Big 3 automakers to rekindle the rivalry that was a part of drag racing back in the early years. It's a bracket race for 2006 or newer Dodge Challengers, Ford Mustangs and Chevy ...
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Drag Racing Online Magazine
Four-wide horsepower on tap for motorsports-crazed Carolinas
NHRA.com
It's one of the truly unique events in all of sports and so it's no surprise that it attracts not just drag racing fans, but fans of all sports including extreme sports and other forms of racing; and zMAX Dragway has extended multiple ticket offers to ...
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NHRA.com
RACING SCENE COLUMN – (USAC VICTORVILLE SPRINTS)
RacingWest.com
They also promoted concerts and operated several race tracks that had stock car and drag racing. Quercio owns an outlaw monster truck series, second only to Monster Jan Monster Trucks, producer of 65 shows a year. The Quercio team planned stock car, ...
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Fan's view: Who are the top NHRA pro stock champs of all time?
Yahoo! Sports
The Pro Stock division in the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series is considered by some to be the most competitive class in the series. Over the years, a handful of drivers have dominated the class, which features very strict rules concerning ...
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Midnite Special shines in return
The Bay of Plenty Times
That was the start of the drag-racing addiction taking hold again. "I went to work overseas for a while straight after that but my wife went to the Nostalgia Drags last year." And the family hatched a plan to get Midnite Special back on track. ...
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The Bay of Plenty Times
New Tree Implemented For Second Annual Visitmyrtlebeach.com
PaddockTalk
When the biggest names in drag racing battle it out on the world's only four-lane, all-concrete drag strip next week, procedures will be a little bit different from the typical two-wide event. Here is a peek at the procedures that will be implemented ...
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Santa Pod and NISMO partner for 2011 drift and race season
Easier (press release)
Santa Pod Raceway, the home of European Drag Racing has partnered with legendary tuning brand NISMO Competition.com for the 2011 Season. The deal sees NISMO Competition.com (represented by Sumo Power in the UK, Europe and Middle East) sponsoring the ...
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Top five best racing towns
Yahoo! Sports
Drag racing was born here. But yes, there's not near the racing there used to be due to the need to build homes for 20 million people; but every major series comes to Southern California, if for no other reason than the wonderful weather and sunshine. ...
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Blogs
Video: "Top the Cops" Drag Racing in Sonoma | KQED News Fix
By Jon Brooks
Police in Sonoma and Marin counties have found a way to at least try to get teen drag races off back-country roads. Caitlin Esch reports the program pits high.
KQED News Fix - http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/