Tuesday, May 15, 2012

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Drag racing devastated by death
Warwick Daily News
THE Warwick District Drag Racing Club has lost one of its hardest-working members with the death last week of Six Banger Nationals organiser Mark Stewart. Mark, 57, who organised the nationals each year with his wife Lyn, was fatally injured in a work ...
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Capps ready to make more history in Kansas
Radioactive Drag Racing News
As one of the most accomplished students of the great history of NHRA drag racing, Ron Capps gets goose bumps just thinking about returning to Kansas to compete in a professional drag race. Due to the flat landscape and its central proximity to the ...
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Monday Motorsports: Jimmie Johnson Delivers 200th Cup Victory to Rick Hendrick
New York Times (blog)
With Dode Martin, Mr. Nelson formed a company in the late 1950s to build drag-racing chassis. The popularity of the resulting Dragmasters reached their peak in the mid-'60s. Mr. Nelson was a first-year inductee into the Drag Racing Hall of Fame and ...
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New York Times (blog)
2012 NHRA: Capps 'Having Fun Again' As NHRA Full Throttle Series Returns To ...
PaddockTalk
That race evolved into what is today the Mac Tools US Nationals in Indianapolis, but Kansas has solidified its place in NHRA drag racing history. Topeka's Heartland Park has hosted NHRA Full Throttle Series events since 1989 and in some seasons hosted ...
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Fifth Third Bank to Partner with Roush Fenway Racing and Matt Kenseth for ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Headquartered in Concord, NC, Roush Fenway Racing is the winningest team in NASCAR history having won five championships in NASCAR's top three divisions and more than 400 races in drag racing, sports car and stock car racing.
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Vandergriff, Todd To Appear At Dollar General Store In Topeka
WIBW
Todd is entering his third race of the 2012 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series season and is bringing additional exposure to the event sponsor for the eighth race on tour. "Going into Topeka, I am definitely more comfortable in the car than I was ...
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Drummond Sets Speed Record in Mountain Motor Nationals Victory
Bay Net
After the race, Goforth expressed disappointment that more Pro Stock drivers did not show up, saying the cars are designed for quarter mile drag racing and not for the one-eighth mile drag racing in the popular American Drag Racing League (ADRL).
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