Wednesday, June 12, 2013

6/12/13 Drag Racing News

News
Drag racing not dead yet in Phoenix, or, not beating a dead 'Wild Horse'
Drag Racing Online Magazine
Firebird Raceway, the stalwart of NHRA drag racing in the Phoenix, Arizona, area for thirty years, closed earlier this year when the Gila River Band of Indians refused to renegotiate the land lease with Charlie Allen. Announced this week, the property ...
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Auto Racing Links: NHRA New England Nationals tickets in high demand; Kasey ...
MassLive.com (blog)
The NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series - the sport's top series in the U.S. - is making its first appearance at New England Dragway in Epping, N.H., June 20-23, and ticket demand is extremely high. The NHRA and the dragway announced Monday that ...
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Oldies But Goodies at Boise
Drag Racing Online Magazine
Nostalgia drag racing gives those of us who are just a tick over that half-century mark in age a chance to revisit our past and remember our childhood. Many of us remember going to the races as a family and it being a family event. Back to when we ...
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Land speed, drag racer Walt Arfons dies at 96
Tire Business
Both Art and Walt moved on from drag racing and became fixated on setting land speed records. Their intense personal struggles against one another led to some of the most incredible racing moments of the early 1960s." Jet (and then rocket) cars came next.
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