Saturday, October 22, 2011

Today's Drag Racing News

News
American Drag Racing League not coming back to Rockingham Dragway in 2012
Fayetteville Observer
This week, he announced that the American Drag Racing League, which has consistently packed Earwood's facility, wouldn't return in 2012. And this year, for the first time since he purchased the track in 1992, there wasn't a national-caliber event ...
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At 70, racer Bill Dunlap has no intention of retiring from the sport he loves
Bakersfield Californian
BY MIKE GRIFFITH Californian staff writer As a young man, Bill Dunlap developed a passion for drag racing that never waned. An old-school racer, Dunlap went old-school in the early 1970s and had a brand new, front-engined Top Fuel dragster built even ...
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High school golf: Pressure no drag for freshman Niki Schroeder
Chronicle-Telegram
AVON LAKE — When she was 9, Niki Schroeder spent back-to-back weekends winning national drag racing championships in Tennessee and Illinois, driving at speeds of 80-85 miles per hour. So, really, how terrorizing could a downhill 3-foot par putt ...
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20th anniversary California Hot Rod Reunion takes place this weekend
NHRA.com
He began his drag racing career in 1961 working part time at San Gabriel and Fontana Drag Strips numbering cars, fill-in announcing, and submitting articles to Drag News. When Gibbs became assistant manager of Irwindale Raceway in the mid-1960s, ...
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Full Throttle TV unveils its latest episode
NHRA.com
Full Throttle TV, which provides drag racing fans with a behind-the-scenes look at NHRA and all its personalities, tags along as seven-time Top Fuel champion Tony "the Sarge" Schumacher goes "Army Strong" with the soldiers at Fort Bragg in North ...
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Friday Fast Video: Combustion, The Art Of Drag Racing
Popular Hot Rodding Magazine (blog)
... Pod Raceway in England has a bit of a surreal quality and is set to a classical score titled Pruit Igoe by Philip Glass. Don't be too impressed, Shazam identified it for us. So what do you think? Does it help to convey the drama of drag racing? ...
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Get the picture?
Kansas.com
Drag racing fans will remember Wiebe's successful career — particularly in the 70s as he competed nationally with considerable success. Hours of hanging out as a teen and watching John work on his car established my life-long love of drag racing. ...
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Resident Wins ANRA Championship
Lincoln County Record
The ANRA dedicates itself to the advancement of the old-school style drag racing. The cars are from around 1979 and before. They are modified and updated to meet today's standards, however still hold true to the drag racing style. ...
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