Thursday, May 02, 2013

Today's Drag Racing News

News
To Cruz Pedregon, being a one-car team is no drag
Los Angeles Times
The elite level of the National Hot Rod Assn.'s funny car drag racing is dominated by two multi-car teams, John Force Racing and Don Schumacher Racing, which have seven funny car drivers between them. But that's of no concern to one of the sport's ...
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Drag Racing Season Begins This Sunday in Osoyoos
News Talk Sports AM 1150
The starting light is the main thing standing between a racer and their victory and this weekend you could experience the thrill of victory yourself at the South Okanagan Drag Races. Organizer and Racer Shana Cachola says anyone can enter to race in ...
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Drag Racing Online Magazine
I couldn't find any concrete figures on the average number of deaths from drag racing in a year. What would you estimate? Is drag racing safer than circle track racing? Is it safer than your bathtub? Making an expensive device like a head and neck ...
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43rd Annual Ignitor at Firebird
Drag Racing Online Magazine
This is the season opener for Division Six on the Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, and it is also the second stop on the NHRA Heritage Series for the Funny Cars teams. Now in all fairness, the past couple of years either some iffy weather conditions or ...
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Drag Racing Online Magazine
Qatar Al-Anabi's alBalooshi taking great strides - The Peninsula
Peninsula On-line
... last weekend, and the team continues to improve. This weekend's 33rd annual Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Southern Nationals near Atlanta is the seventh of 24 races making up the United States' 2013 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season.
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Female drivers blocking path to John Force's NHRA Funny Car title hopes
AutoWeek
For nine consecutive years, from 1992 through 2000, the drag-racing icon took a Castrol GTX Funny Car to the final round of the Georgia event. Six times he came away with the trophy. But that was before they started letting girls drive the 10,000-hp ...
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Fast action at Tarlton
Citizen
Or, you could visit the Tarlton International Raceway where round two of this year's South African Drag racing championship will take place. Unlike the politicians, the drag racing performers will not make you wait. And, they will perform feats of ...
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Grainy Brothers Hoping to Repeat Martin Drag Strip Success
Inside Track Motorsport News
US 131 Motorsports Park has been in providing top drag racing for over 50 years, and this year's Thunder Nationals is the track's 30th running of this popular opening event. For more information, go to www.us131msp.com. The PMRA, www.PMRA.ca, races in ...
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F1, Formula 1, NASCAR, IndyCar, MotoGP, ALMS, And More!
PaddockTalk
Brown and Don Schumacher Racing's Matco Tools Top Fuel Dragster team remain second in NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series points despite losing in the opening round of the past two events including Sunday near Houston. If anything, the popular ...
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