Friday, October 07, 2011

Today's Drag Racing News

News
Snowmobile grass drag racing back in Hastings
MLive.com
The three-day program, which features side-by-side snowmobile grass drag racing, will offer a new class, race promoter Jimmy McHugh said. Favorite classes, the ones that have snowmobiles built for this type of racing, will be back. ...
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Auto racing: Drag racing a family affair
The Sheboygan Press
Degnitz drag racing has been competing at various drag strips throughout the Midwest since the late 1960s. Norbert Degnitz of Adell began racing in 1968, competing at the Wisconsin International Raceway and Great Lakes Dragway over the course of 31 ...
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NHRA's Hagan Hoping For A Happier Ending
RacinToday.com
(File photos courtesy of the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series) By Jim Pedley | Managing Editor Matt Hagan didn't really need to be interviewed in the moments after he lost the 2010 Funny Car championship to John Force at the season-ending race in ...
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TBC, Big O to sponsor NHRA race at Las Vegas
Tire Business
(Oct. 6, 2011) — TBC Retail Group Inc. and its Big O Tires brand will sponsor the fall National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) drag racing meet at Las Vegas Motor Speedway — the penultimate race in the NHRA's annual championship — for the next several ...
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Ackerman: Glenwood racer eyes championship
Omaha World-Herald
By Lee Ackerman It started in 1963 when Bill Williams and Richard Robinson went drag racing with their 1955 Chevy wagon called the Dragon Wagon. In 1977, Williams turned the racing over to his sons, Kirk and Chris, and Williams Brothers Racing was ...
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NHRA 60th Anniversary Legend Muldowney Has Fond Memories of Firebird Int'l ...
WhoWon.com
5 all-time on the historic list by an elite panel of drag racing journalists and historians. She remains active in the sport as one of its greatest ambassadors and many successful female racers have followed in her tire tracks by racing to victories ...
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Backmarker: Tony Thacker
MotorcycleUSA.com
His dad may have hated bikes, but he fueled his son's interest in drag racing by taking him to the Brighton Speed Trials in 1964, when Dean Moon and Mickey Thompson brought their American-style dragsters. (The Brighton event dates to the very early ...
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Force in The Body Issue for good reason
ESPN
Even the most grizzled drag racing veterans, those with hair that permanently smells like nitrous oxide and crankcase sludge caked under their fingernails, have a hard time talking about what they saw that day. "We had already had a brutally tough year ...
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