Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Today's Drag Racing News

News
Racer Killed in Drag Strip Crash at Rockingham
Inside Line
September 12, 2011 | American Drag Racing League By David Green, Correspondent | Published Sep 12, 2011 Bert Jackson, 51, of Glen Allen, Virginia, died when his car crashed Friday at Rockingham Dragway. Jackson was competing in the Extreme Pro Stock ...
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DRAG RACING Pillager's Knebel on BIR ET Finals team
Brainerd Daily Dispatch
Andy Knebel of Pillager is one of 37 drivers named to the Brainerd International Raceway drag racing team that will compete Sept. 16-18 in the NHRA West Central Summit Racing ET Finals at BIR. Knebel and the BIR team will compete against teams from 21 ...
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Great Bend To Host World Class Drag Racing Event
KAKE
The smell and sound of burning rubber is a sweet smell to the community of Great Bend this week. The National Hot Rod Association's Drag Week starts Tuesday. It's an event that means a lot to a community where the first ever NHRA sanctioned race was ...
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VIDEO: Watch: Drag racing - Paige's speedy hobby
BBC News
12-year-old Paige from Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, has got a very speedy hobby - she's a champion drag racer. She loves racing and in her dragster she can reach a pretty scary 85mph. Over the weekend Paige competed in the European championships ...
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BBC News
Roush Yates Races for IHRA Championship
UTV Weekly
Drag racing is relatively new to the world-class engineers at Roush Yates Engines, but the program has already made significant gains in giving racers the same power and performance viewed each week on the NASCAR circuit. Drag racers such as Roy Hill, ...
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UTV Weekly
Watch the world's greatest drag race
Jalopnik
Eleven super cars simultaneously drag racing each other down a quarter-mile of empty airstrip sounds less like reality and more like the product of a car guy's fever dream. But one auto buff book did just that. Here's the epic video. ...
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Quake on Town Lake caps off DSRA season
Mount Pleasant Daily Tribune
A total of 37 racers - from Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi - floored the fuel pedal of their outboard drag racing boats as they zipped across Town Lake side by side competing in numerous divisions during the two-day event. ...
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Naturally Aspirated Warfare
Honda Tuning Magazine
By Rodrez During import drag racing's "golden era," turbo performance unconditionally dominated the landscape. That is, until a portion of the spotlight was stolen by a brightly colored, naturally aspirated CRX owned by one Jeremy Lookofsky, ...
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Honda Tuning Magazine
NHRA: Capps confident heading to Charlotte II
Motorsport.com
"We left Indy confident we were one of the best cars in that race," said the Don Schumacher Racing driver about the final race of the 2011 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series regular season. "I saw Tim (Richards, crew chief) make great decisions ...
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Web
Gainesville Raceway News: 2012 Full Throttle Drag Racing Series ...
NHRA ANNOUNCES 2012 FULL THROTTLE DRAG RACING SERIES SCHEDULE. The 23-race schedule features return to Gateway International Raceway ...
www.gainesvilleraceway.com/apcm/APCMviewer.asp?a...z...
Great Bend To Host World-Class Drag Racing Event
The smell and sound of burning rubber is a sweet smell to the community of Great Bend this week. The National Hot Rod Association Drag Racing Week starts ...
www.kake.com/.../Great_Bend_To_Host_World_Class_Drag_...