Sunday, February 19, 2012

Today's Drag Racing News

News
Drag-strip dilemma: Should it go or should it stay?
Kitsap Sun
Drag racing's been center stage at the motor sports park that's operated for decades on an old, unused runway at Bremerton National Airport. Long-range plans call for the motor sports park to be moved across Highway 3 to make way for a road the Port of ...
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Gray Powers To Funny Car Pole At Firebird
RacinToday.com
(Photo courtesy of the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series) Johnny Gray held on to the No. 1 spot in Funny Car Saturday as qualifying came to an end at the NHRA Arizona Nationals at Firebird International Raceway. Shawn Langdon and Mike Edwards also ...
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Johnny Gray leads Funny Car field
ESPN
Shawn Langdon led the Top Fuel field and Mike Edwards topped the Pro Stock class in the second of 23 races in the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing season. Gray powered his Dodge Charger to a 4.074-second pass, the quickest of the weekend, at 298.93 mph ...
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NHRA Arizona Nationals: Q&A with Jack Beckman
AZ Central.com
18, 2012 06:32 PM Jack Beckman's victory in October's Arizona Nationals was his third in the NHRA Funny Car drag-racing class in the past four years at Firebird International Raceway. But Beckman has an even bigger victory -- over cancer.
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Rebuilt Model T anything but a drag
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
Feb 18, 2012 (Herald-Times - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Troy Wilson got hooked on drag racing -- driving, not watching -- a quarter century ago. Back then, altered drag racing vehicles had huge engines, a high center of ...
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Sheikh Khalid's team record fifth quickest time in NHRA history
Gulf Times
Sheikh Khalid bin Hamad al-Thani's Al-Anabi Top Fuel Racing Team recorded the fifth quickest Top Fuel run in NHRA history during qualifying for the second race of the 2012 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing season in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Langdon, Gray, Edwards secure No. 1 qualifying positions in Phoenix
NHRA.com
Shawn Langdon and Mike Edwards also were qualifying leaders in their respective categories at the second of 23 races in the 2012 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing season. Gray powered his Service Central Dodge Charger to a 4.074-second pass, the quickest ...
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NHRA: Gray, Langdon and Edwards claim top qualifying spots in Phoenix
AutoWeek
Shawn Langdon (Top Fuel) and Mike Edwards (Pro Stock) also were the qualifying leaders in their respective categories at the second of 23 races on the 2012 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing schedule. Gray in Friday powered his Service Central Dodge ...
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NHRA: Drag-racing legend Don Garlits roasted at 80th-birthday ...
Drag-racing legend Don Garlits celebrated his 80th birthday with his closest fri. ... packed a hotel ballroom in Pomona, Calif, to roast drag racing's top driver.
www.autoweek.com/article/20120212/FREE/120219964
NHRA Fans Have Spoken: Drag Racing Returning to ESPN3 ...
February 17, 2012 NHRA Fans Have Spoken: Drag Racing Returning to ESPN3 After a strong outpouring of support from viewers, the NHRA Full Throttle Drag ...
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