Friday, May 20, 2011

Today's Drag Racing News

News
Robert Hight confident heading for Topeka
Motorsport.com
Mike Neff, the talented Funny Car crew chief who last year helped return drag racing icon John Force to prominence by directing him to six NHRA tour victories, undoubtedly is the best of the current crop of young mechanical minds in the NHRA Full ...
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Motorsport.com
Big Daddy still pedaling down the drag strip at 79
Kansas City Star
The once-curly hair has turned gray, but "Big Daddy" Don Garlits, wearing a Swamp Rat leather jacket and black cap, still looks the part of drag racing's most legendary driver. The man won 144 national event races — including several in Kansas City ...
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Kansas City Star
Drag Racing for Android is Pedal to the Metal Fun
Appscout
Not every Android game has the kind of polish to make it worth playing over and over again, but Drag Racing for Android, built by Creative Mobile, definitely does. The app includes 40 different cars to drive, realistic shifting and acceleration ...
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Appscout
Fram Autolite Dragway shifts sanctioning body from NZDRA to IHRA
NZV8
Fram Autolite Dragway has just announced that it will be changing the sanctioning body of its Meremere drag racing facility. Fram will not be renewing it's membership with the NZDRA and all track sanctioning will change to the International Hot Rod ...
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Drivers competing this week at Cottonwood Dragway
The Enterprise Ledger
"I just love drag racing, and a friend of mine wanted to see this happen. "I was able to get 10 sponsors at $200 each to put up the purse." Clausen said the first place purse will be $1200, runner-up is $500 and each semifinalist will get $125. ...
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DieHard Race Week Start-Up, Topeka
NHRA.com
For the first time this season, the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series goes back to back as the drivers and crews have left the Peach State with their eyes set firmly on the Sunflower State. And it is in Kansas where NHRA's roots go back to, ...
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Media Matters: Winning by losing in Atlanta
Radioactive Drag Racing News
Drag racing is all about winning, but sometimes wins can be found in loses as well. Leaving the starting line first is a win, for example, though it doesn't guarantee by any stretch of the imagination a victorious pass. At Georgia's Summit Racing ...
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Bruce Litton: US 131 Motorsports Park record could fall at Thunder Nationals
Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com
By Kalamazoo Gazette staff BY STEVE KAMINSKI MARTIN — Bruce Litton has lived many pressure packed moments at the US 131 Motorsports Park during his drag racing career. Litton won the 2007 International Hot Rod Association Top Fuel championship and is ...
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Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com

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Another Banner Edition Of "ADRL Drag Racing Live" | ADRL.us
Your agent was once again thoroughly entertained by the latest episode of "ADRL Drag Racing Live," which featured a stacked lineup on last night's show. ...
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Drag Racing – Take It Off The Street And To The Strip » Genius ...
Drag racing, a contest between two automobiles beginning from dead quit to decide which car can accelerate faster to a given point. Drag racing started ...
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