Thursday, May 30, 2013

Today's Drag Racing News

News
Test has drag racer Brown interested in more
Yahoo! Sports
Brown said he had plenty running through his head early in the test, when he tried to get comfortable thinking about getting on and off the gas and how much to carry into a corner -- factors very different from the ones he's accustomed to in drag racing.
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Drag racing
Windsor Star
Local drag racers came home with three victories and seven runner-up finishes at the Grand Bend Motorplex on the weekend. Windsor's John Pizzo outraced LaSalle's Ed Smith Saturday in the finals of the Extreme 32 class. His Armando's Pizza dragster ...
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Brown looks to add Englishtown trophy to his collection
NHRA.com
Growing up in nearby Chesterfield, N.J., Antron Brown would go to Old Bridge Township Raceway Park with his dad to watch some drag racing, and he always knew that one day, he would be there racing his own high-performance machines. His dream came ...
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Mopar show, Mopar drag racing, Mopar Muscle, SGMP
Mopar Muscle Magazine (blog)
Mopar Muscle hosted the All-Mopar Southern Nationals over Memorial Day weekend, and we had a blast doing it. Over the years, this show has changed hands a couple of times, but now that we're promoting it, we plan to make the event better than ever.
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Photonic wheels for drag racing at the nanoscale
Nanowerk
(Nanowerk News) Optical tweezers and spanners are about to become more sophisticated. A group of physicists in Germany has just demonstrated, for the first time, the existence of a novel, transverse effect pertaining to light beams used for optical ...
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2013 NHRA: Lee Zane Set To Debut New Pro Stock Team In Englishtown
PaddockTalk
Zane – a former Stock Eliminator national champion in NHRA's premier sportsman league, the Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series – formed a partnership with Kevin and Mary McHugh in 2012 and began hammering out the details of making their collective vision a ...
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2013 NHRA: Lucas Oil's Arana Jr Aims To Match NHRA Record In Englishtown
PaddockTalk
Arana has won the first three Pro Stock Motorcycle races of the 2013 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series and can match Dave Schultz's class record with a victory this weekend. Schultz, the all-time leader with 45 career Pro Stock Motorcycle wins, went ...
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Blogs
L.A. councilman to turn 'Grease' drag racing site into river for ...
By The Christian Science Monitor
A river runs through it? Kayaking, fishing come to downtown Los Angeles. (via The Christian Science Monitor). City Councilman Ed Reyes stands in front of the Los Angeles River in this 2003 photo. He has spearheaded an effort to reclaim ...
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