Monday, February 20, 2012

Today's Drag Racing News

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City's first drag racing event in works
Today's News-Herald
"I am interested in expanding this type of events because my desire is to create permanent drag racing in the tri-state," he said. "That is the whole driving force with what we've been doing with Route 66 Wings and Wheels for 12 years now.
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Drag strip focus heads north
Today's News-Herald
A fuel dragster sits near the Lake Havasu Drag Racing Association booth Friday afternoon during the Rockabilly Reunion. Jillian Danielson Photo/Special to News-Herald "I want to tell you that we are going to the north side," said Greg Tryon, ...
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Hight, Brown, Line Capture Arizona Nationals
RacinToday.com
(Photo courtesy of the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series) Robert Hight gave John Force Racing its second-straight Funny Car victory of the 2012 NHRA season while Jason Line did the same thing for KB Summit Racing in Pro Stock Sunday at the Arizona ...
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Antron Brown wins NHRA Arizona Nationals
San Jose Mercury News
Robert Hight topped the Funny Car field and Jason Line won the Pro Stock competition in the second of 23 races in the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing season. Brown took the top spot in the Top Fuel standings, 32 points ahead of Schumacher.
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A winter light on snow isn't slowing down snowmobile drag racers at the Maine ...
WCSH-TV
"If we just have nice, cold weather, and they're able to flood the track with ice and build up the ice, it's much better for drag racing," said driver Kristy Burleigh. According to KASRA Vice President Brian Wiley, it took 2 million gallons of water ...
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2012 NHRA Arizona Nationals: Brown, Hight, Line take home Wallys
Examiner.com
The second event of the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series season saw teammates going against each other in each of the final rounds. Brown defeated Don Schumacher Racing teammate Tony Schumacher in the final round of Top Fuel eliminations, ...
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Forces Will Work Against Each Other Today In Arizona
RacinToday.com
(Photo courtesy of the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series) A couple of weeks ago, NHRA team-owner John Force, a man synonymous with racing Funny Cars, talked about his thought process pertaining to the decision to begin working on dragster.
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Even weather's not a drag
TheMercury.com.au
While the crowd was down on predictions of 10000 at just over 4000, Tasmanian Drag Racing Association president Troy Woods said the event the biggest drag racing event the state has seen was still a success. "The crowd was a little bit down on what we ...
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Fletcher becomes seventh NHRA driver to reach 75-win milestone
NHRA.com
by Phil Burgess, National DRAGSTER Editor With his Super Stock win at the NHRA Arizona Nationals at Firebird Int'l Raceway, NHRA Sportsman standout Dan Fletcher became just the seventh driver in NHRA Drag Racing history to collect 75 NHRA Full Throttle ...
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