Thursday, June 30, 2011

Today's Drag Racing News

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NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series isn't a young man's game
Mansfield News Journal
The NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series features the fastest race cars on the planet. The technology that goes into the four highest classes of the sport is complex. The things needed to host a show of this magnitude at Summit Motorsports Park are ...
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Worsham has no trouble with Top Fuel switch
USA Today
By John Marshall, AP Sports Writer Despite more than two decades in drag racing and some previous experience in the long, narrow cars of Top Fuel, Del Worsham figured he would have an adjustment period switching over from racing Funny Cars. ...
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IHRA Gearing up for Historic Weekend at Summit Racing Sportsman Spectacular
WhoWon.com
by Larry Crum NORWALK, Ohio -- In 40 years of IHRA drag racing, there has never been a sportsman drag race bigger than this. A grand total of $5000 to win in each IHRA class, completely open fields consisting of both IHRA and NHRA competitors and a ...
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Kansas Red Cross gets Donation from CarSafe Motorsports
Kansas City Star
Folks traveled by air, car and RV to enjoy the American Drag Racing League's "Kansas National Guard Independence Drags V" held at Heartland Park in Topeka, Kansas. Patrons enjoyed interacting with race car drivers; Richie Stevens Jr and 2010 World ...
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Drag Racing: Gridlock almost at the 140mph mark
Dunmow Broadcast
The team will now be busy preparing for the Mini Showdown in two weeks before setting off for the home of European Drag Racing at Santa Pod for Dragstalgia. The car is also scheduled to appear at Felsted Primary School Fete this Saturday and will be ...
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Dunmow Broadcast
Reality Show Features 'Slick Wicked' Upstate Women
WYFF Greenville
ANDERSON COUNTY, SC -- A Los Angeles film crew is in the Upstate to shoot a proposed reality series about a female drag racing team. For more than eight years, "Slick Wicked," a group of five Upstate women who build, paint and race their own hot rods ...
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World's top Funny Car drivers at Cayuga
Toronto Sun
(Dale Erauw photo) If you listen carefully enough on Friday, Saturday or Sunday this week you might just hear the big boys of drag racing who will be staging their 8000 horsepower Top Fuel dragsters at the National Hot Rod Association Canadian Nitro ...
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NHRA Top Sportsman - Mike Coughlin Looking To Hit The Trifecta In Norwalk
Autochannel (press release)
Now the two-time D3 champion is looking to make more fireworks as he heads to northwest Ohio for the resumption of last months' rain-delayed B'Laster Cavalcade of Stars Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series event. Coughlin, the 2007 and 2009 NHRA Division 3 Top ...
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Autochannel (press release)