Thursday, August 09, 2012

Today's Drag Racing News

News
Women show power in NHRA with Courtney Force, Erica Enders
USA TODAY
I was hoping I could make history with her." Enders (Pro Stock) and Force won their respective divisions in the NHRA Northwest Nationals, marking the first time in the 61-year history of NHRA drag racing that two women won at the same national event.
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Rally Racing: Plenty of speed to burn in Sturgis
Rapid City Journal
Bahnmaier, of Wichita, Kan., beat Steve "Doc" Hopkins of Bonduel, Wis., in Wednesday's Western Motorcycle Drag Racing Association Top Fuel finals by backing off just at the right time on the eighth-mile strip. Bahnmaier needed to rebuild the alcohol ...
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AUTO RACING: Boyertown senior feels need for...
The Mercury
The Boyertown area resident has been spending her vacation competing in Junior Drag Racing League events at Maple Grove Raceway and other tracks in the region. Her first full season of action with the six-car Play Hard Racing team of her cousin and his ...
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ADRL at Charlotte, NC
Drag Racing Online Magazine
Shannon "Iceman" Jenkins has been a staple at the American Drag Racing League's Dragstock race, first appearing at the event in 2005. At the ninth rendition of the race on Saturday, Aug. 4, Jenkins delivered another trademark performance in Pro Nitrous ...
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Drag racing visit hopes to raise wounded soldiers' morale
Western Telegraph
A Neyland man whose company has made it big in the speed-crazy, high-octane world of drag racing will today (Wednesday) pay an emotional visit to servicemen and women wounded in the line of duty. Richard Stevens, Director of MPM Oil UK – a motor ...
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Motorsports Advocate Plans to Visit Town Board
Patch.com
Should all forces align, Johnson said his organization would like to rent the space and the space at least temporarily for drag racing. Jersey barriers, or concrete walls, would have to be set up; Johnson said the operation could be up and running in ...
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No track big drag for racers
Airdrie Echo
In drag racing, 20 seconds is a long time. For Airdrie racer Harry Svingen, the last 20 seconds he spent in his 1929 Essex Coupe felt like an eternity. After doing a burnout and heading to the starting line at the Medicine Hat Drag Racing Association ...
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Phenix Industries posts contingency for Nightfires at Boise and will sponsor ...
Drag Racing Online Magazine
Bill Paddock, President of Phenix Industries said of the promotion, "I am a big fan of AA/Funny Cars and AA/Fuel Dragsters and nostalgia drag racing. I just wanted to help these guys keep racing and start introducing my American-made line of racing ...
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Vicious Cycle: Bicycle drag racing takes over downtown LA | 89.3 ...
For six hours, the night riders of Los Angeles shut down the tile-covered 2nd Street tunnel for the biggest bicycle drag race the city has ever seen.
www.scpr.org/video/117/vicious-cycle/
Drag racing strip rejected in southeast Orange - OrlandoSentinel.com
Orange County Commissioners voted 7-0 Tuesday to reject a drag strip proposal for southeast Orange County, a proposal boosters had hoped would provide an ...
www.orlandosentinel.com/.../os-drag-strip-southchase-201208...