Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Today's Drag Racing News

News
FIA/UEM European Championships, Santa Pod
Drag Racing Online Magazine
Drama, controversy, nail biting title chases, and the somewhat disappointing sight of the cream of European drag racing trying to get to grips with a freshly re-laid startline over the course of the weekend at what traditionally is the quickest track ...
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NHRA: Hagan looks for more records at Dallas
Motorsport.com
Last week he produced the first sub-four-second and fastest laps in Funny Car history, a four-place jump in the Countdown to the Championship standings and his first win of the 2011 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series season, but the history the ...
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Ronnie has muscle
Caymanian Compass
The North Side native is expected to be one of the featured racers at a upcoming drag meet put on by the Cayman Islands Drag Racing Association. Forbes boasts a Mercedes Benz 500SL coupe with a Chevy engine. The car is a family project dedicated to ...
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FYI WIRZ: NHRA's Showman John Force Has Roadshow, Too
Bleacher Report
The show's purpose is inform and educate people in a variety of public venues, many of which are unrelated to NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series events. Force's show recently traveled to an Advance Auto Parts store in Altamonte Springs, ...
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Bleacher Report
Watch a Funny Car run a sub-four-second quarter-mile
Jalopnik
Sure, sub-4-second runs over a quarter-mile are old hat in Top Fuel drag racing, but the barrier had never been broken in the Funny Cars until this weekend, when Matt Hagan drove a 3.995 run at 316 mph. Two other national drag-racing records fell ...
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