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Bill's Notes:
2009 USA-1 Dragfest Scheduled for November 14 by Bill Pratt. The 12th annual Bruce Larson USA-1 Dragfest is officially
on and scheduled for November 14, 2009, in Dauphin, PA, at Bruce's Stoney Creek
Barn. Look for the flyer next week! - Nov 2, 2009 |
Bill's Notes:
RacingJunk.com Tool Chest Giveaway by Bill Pratt.
Our partners at RacingJunk.com are giving away a different
Snap-On Tools tool box each month. This month you get to pick... Click to enter:
http://www.racingjunk.com/2009giveaway?aid=31350 - Nov 2, 2009 |
Bill's Notes:
Draglist Photo Sites Updated by Bill Pratt.
We have updated all the draglist.com photo sites with new photos and streamlined layouts for your viewing enjoyment: dragphoto.com
60sfunnycars.com
70sfunnycars.com
80sfunnycars.com - Oct 10, 2009 |
Bill's Notes:
Drag Racing Lists now updated on Twitter by Bill Pratt.
The Drag Racing List twitter feed is done, tested, and ready. Starting today,
every
edit
to one of the 75,000+ Drag List racer entries will generate an
individual Twitter Feed. We are going to try to load them to the
Draglist Facebook fan page as well. You can follow Draglist.com on
Twitter by signing up at twitter.com
and following user 'draglist' - Sep 14, 2009 |
Bill's Notes:
Get Your Draglist.com Super Crew Calendar Poster! by Bill Pratt.
Join the Draglist.com super
crew with this great 2009 poster calendar featuring the the great racers
of the Drag Racing List Message Board! Designed by John
"WildcatOne" Bockelman and priced
super cheap, this cool
calendar would look great in your office or garage! Hey, at this price,
you could WALLPAPER with 'em! We are going to get a 2010 calendar done
soon and we are looking for racers to fill that one! The racers who join
the Draglist.com message board (and get a 2009 calendar) will be first in
line for when we name the racers for next year's poster! GET YOURS TODAY
and don't forget Grandpa! See 'em at the bottom of our posters page:
http://www.draglist.com/raceplace/dragposter.htm - May 23, 2009 |
Bill's Notes:
Draglist Contributor of the Week: Tim Newmeyer by Bill Pratt. This week's Draglist Contributor of the week is Tim Newmeyer. Racing
out of America's heartland for years, Tim has been responsible for
filling in lots of holes in the information we have on the Drag Racing
Lists. Click to read more and see Tim's collection of great drag racing photos. - May 18, 2009 |
Bill's Notes:
Draglist Contributor of the Week: Mike Ditty by Bill Pratt.
This week’s Draglist Contributor of the Week is Mike Ditty.
Mike came out a few years ago and blew everybody’s mind with his pristine,
crystal clear shots of funny cars and other machines from the sport’s glory
days. Click to read more and see Mike's amazing shots! - May 11, 2009 |
Bill's Notes:
Draglist Contributor of the Week: David Hapgood by Bill Pratt.
This week's Draglist Contributor of
the Week is our Executive Field Editor David Hapgood, who has
David has been providing Draglist.com readers with rich content for years.
Here is a link to David's
many Draglist.com articles and a link to the Drag Racing List
entries that are graced with his photos and information.
David's articles: http://tinyurl.com/d4v9ty
David's Draglist entries:
http://tinyurl.com/ccwfzu
- May 4, 2009 |
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Bill's Notes:
Draglist Contributor of the Week: Steve Klemetti by Bill Pratt.
This week’s Draglist Contributor of the Week is longtime
friend and associate
Steve Klemetti
.
Steve, who has hosted his own website of drag racing stats for years, has been
a long time contributor to Draglist.com with his Personal Bests column. The following link provides access to Steve’s Personal Bests
articles: http://www.draglist.com/klemetti.htm
.
The following link provides access to all the Draglist entries
that have been updated with Steve’s data:
http://tinyurl.com/cf5e4p - Apr 27, 2009 |
Bill's Notes:
Draglist Contributor of the Week: John Bockelman by Bill Pratt. This week’s Draglist Contributor of the Week is John Bockelman, also known as WildcatOne. John contributions to Draglist.com are myriad, from updating Draglist entries, to organizing the Blues for Becky White concert of a few years ago, to creating terrific original artwork for Draglist and for several of our racing members. John’s “Night Shift” column on the Draglist message board provides a unique insight into his alter ego as one of Houston’s most popular guitarists. Most recently, John planned, obtained photos for, designed, and arranged the printing of a 2009 Draglist.com calendar poster. Here are links to the Draglist.com entries that John contributed to:
http://tinyurl.com/cz7p5q - Apr 20, 2009 |
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Bill's Notes:
Simplified Access to the Drag Lists by Bill Pratt.
We revamped the Drag Lists to make it much easier
to select racers BY YEAR. While we were at it, we also radically
simplified the pulldown lists to make it easier to see your favorite
drag racing class in your favorite era.
Check out the new format and let us know how you like it: http://www.draglist.com/draglist/draglist.php
- Apr 5, 2009 |
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Bill's Notes:
Draglist Contributor of the Week: Dennis Doubleday by Bill Pratt.
Dennis Doubleday is no stranger to funny car fans on
the internet. His detailed recordkeeping and astute observations have helped
Dennis to amass a massive portfolio of information on the sport's early
machines, especially funny cars. Dennis' generous sharing of his knowledge and
his records have made him a favorite information source for Internet funny car
fans for years. Dennis has provided over 500 updates to the drag racing lists
alone, and his work has infused the lists with serious details on the sport's formative years. In addition, Dennis has contributed information to nearly all the pages
of our funny car sites covering the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Thanks to Dennis, we
have a solid handle on the sport's transition of stock machines to funny cars. - Apr 5, 2009 |
Bill's Notes:
Draglist Contributor of the Week: Mike Gagnon by Bill Pratt. This week’s Draglist Contributor of the Week is
Mike Gagnon. Mike is a huge Pro Stock expert who
took the time to update completely the Drag Racing Lists with his extensive
records of early Pro Stocks. We have many holes in our information that we are trying
to fill in, but one class where we know we are relatively solid is Pro Stock from
its inception through 1979. That is primarily thanks to
Mike Gagnon. Here is a link to the Draglist entries
updated by Mike:
http://tinyurl.com/cdr57u - Mar 29, 2009 |
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Bill's Notes:
Drag Lists Now Include 1,000 Foot Times by Bill Pratt. After a one year 'wait and see' period, Draglist.com has decided to add 1,000 Foot times to the lists. We have
added all the 2008 and 2009 NHRA
Top Fuel and Funny Car times to the lists, plus any old 1,000 foot times we've kept in reserve over the years. Here is the link to the new drag lists:
http://www.draglist.com/draglist/draglist.php - Mar 27, 2009 |
Bill's Notes:
Draglist Contributor of the Week: Curt Swartz by Bill Pratt.
This
week’s draglist Contributor of the Week is Curt Swartz, a friend with whom
we’ve been corresponding since the mid 1980s. Curt was in his mid teens when he
started sharing outstanding funny car stats with us. Later, he shared the
photos of great
Midwest
drag racing action taken
by his uncle, Michael Beach. Here is a link to
Curt’s draglist.com entries:
http://tinyurl.com/dk65ag - Mar 23, 2009 |
Bill's Notes:
Draglist Sets up Facebook Sites by Bill Pratt. Draglist.com has set up sections of the Facebook social networking
site to connect with all the great racers and fans who use that
service. Come on up and say hello! - Mar 22, 2009 |
Bill's Notes:
Draglist Contributor of the Week: Gary Brown by Bill Pratt. This week's Draglist Contributor of the Week is photographer Gary
Brown. Gary takes care of West Coast action for us with great photo
reviews of nostalgia and modern racing alike. Here are links to the
drag list articles and database entries that Gary has provided: http://tinyurl.com/d5zff8 http://tinyurl.com/dlwhvo - Mar 16, 2009 |
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Bill's Notes:
"Draglist Twitch" Corrected? by Bill Pratt. As many of our readers know, we've had an annoying twitch on draglist.com pages as our Random Rods feature caused the pages to "twitch" momentarily as the photos changed (but only on Internet Explorer). Ace web guru Brian Clark has -- we think -- solved the problem once and for all. - Mar 7, 2009 |
Bill's Notes:
Draglist Contributor of the Week: Thomas Nagy by Bill Pratt.
This week's Draglist Contributor of the Week is photographer Thomas Nagy. Here is a link to Thomas' work on the drag list racer databases:
http://tinyurl.com/b9rm7m - Mar 2, 2009 |
Bill's Notes:
Draglist Contributor of the Week: Bill Ott by Bill Pratt.
We have hundreds of great volunteer writers and photographers at
draglist.com and here's our chance to highlight them! This
week's Draglist Contributor of the Week is writer and photographer Bill "Badco" Ott. Bil has provided us some of our most entertaining stories over the years with his unique perspective on nostalgia drag racing. Thanks, Badco! Here is a link to Bill Ott's contributions to Draglist.com:
http://tinyurl.com/b5wnwl
NOTE: This is a SEARCH that results in 10 pages of results! Be sure to go to the bottom of the search page and select NEXT to see more stories and photos by Bill Ott. - Feb 23, 2009 |
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Bill's Notes:
Draglist Contributor of the Week: John Kilburg by Bill Pratt.
We have hundreds of great volunteer writers and photographers at
draglist.com and here's our chance to highlight them! This
week's Draglist Contributor of the Week is photographer (and funny car
crewman/driver) John Kilburg. John has sent hundreds of shots of fuel
and alcohol funny cars and dragsters, plus other great machines. John's
contributions make the drag lists come alive. Thanks, John! Here is a link to the Drag List entries featuring John's shots:
http://tinyurl.com/anh95c - Feb 16, 2009 |
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Bill's Notes:
Draglist Contributor of the Week: David Oakes by Bill Pratt. We have hundreds of great volunteer writers and photographers at draglist.com and it's time we highlighted them! This week we kick off our
Contributor of the Week feature. We'll select one person every week and provide links to their contributions to Draglist.com. This week's Contributor of the Week is photographer
David Oakes, who has brightened up the Drag Lists with lots of photos of drag cars both famous and obscure. Thanks, David! Here is a link to the Drag List entries featuring David's shots:
http://tinyurl.com/dxvy9u - Feb 12, 2009 |
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Bill's Notes:
Microsoft Hates Random Rods! by Bill Pratt. We love our Random Rods feature but it is making the pages jump around in Microsoft Internet Explorer and driving drag fans worldwide crazy as they try to read our stories. We are working on that problem, but here are links to three EXCELLENT browsers that PROPERLY display random photos without any tweaking on our part. - Feb 5, 2009 |
Bill's Notes:
2008 USA-1 Dragfest on November 8 by Bill Pratt.
This
year's USA-1 Dragfest at Bruce Larson’s Stoney Creek Barn will take
place on November 8, 2008. The 1989 NHRA Funny Car World Champion once
again will open his barn full of precious race memorabilia and old cars
to East Coast drag fans. Click for all the info, including directions
to Bruce's house!
Click to see the poster: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dragfest
- Nov 2, 2008 |
