| VOLUME XX, NUMBER 2 – FEBRUARY, 2018 Drag Racing Online Magazine The 83-time event winner was the runner-up at the 2018 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season opener in Pomona, a strong start after Mike Neff was named the new crew chief over the winter. Heading into this weekend’s 34th annual NHRA Arizona Nationals at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports …
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| ‘He changed the face of auto racing in the Quad-Cities’: Cordova icon Bartel dies at 96 Quad City Times The World Series of Drag Racing made its triumphant return to the Cordova International Raceway last summer. Thousands of fans and hundreds of … said Joe Taylor, president of the Quad-Cities Convention & Visitors Bureau and a lifelong drag racing aficionado. “He changed the face of auto racing in …
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| Racing Over Records: The Looming Paradigm Shift In Radial Racing Dragzine.com In a lot of ways, this is a new frontier for drag radial racing, which has been in a run-away state of performance advancement ever since the early NMRA radial-class days, the likes of which we haven’t seen in drag racing in decades. But sooner or later, it had to reach a proverbial wall, and it has. Now the …
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| Langdon prepared to tackle challenges in new class at NHRA Arizona Nationals NHRA.com Shawn Langdon has never been one to back down from a challenge and the former Top Fuel world champion remains thrilled at trying to tackle perhaps the biggest one in his racing career early in the 2018 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season. Langdon made the transition from Top Fuel to …
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| Clinton Harry, 65 Grand Island Independent Before losing his eyesight, he worked as a sales rep for Thompson Auto Parts in Grand Island and was actively involved in drag racing. Not to be held back by his disability, Clint turned his attention to restoring classic cars. His favorites were 1960s muscle cars. He thoroughly enjoyed spending time in …
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| 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon Ownership Review Kelley Blue Book We also wanted to start familiarizing ourselves with the Dodge Demon’s many performance features. The Demon’s drag racing pedigree reads like the feature list for the latest iPhone. It is equipped with items no other car has ever offered, any one of which requires a learning curve. Taken as a group the …
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| Darrell Wallace Jr., Denny Hamlin explain heated confrontation after Daytona 500 SB Nation Wallace and Hamlin made contact drag racing for second on the final lap of the Daytona 500 on Sunday, resulting in Wallace hitting the outside wall just after they had crossed the finish line. Afterward, Wallace told Fox: “(Hamlin) might need to take some Adderall for that one.” Wallace was referencing …
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| NHRA Top Fuel champ Brittany Force still hasn’t watched her horrific crash Autoweek Reigning NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Top Fuel champion Brittany Force continues to recover from injuries she received in a crash in the season-opening race weekend at Pomona, California, and she is hopeful of returning to action this weekend at Phoenix. And, no, she has not yet brought herself to …
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| Young Baxter races back into 2018 action in Cornwall Exmouth Journal A new drag racing season got underway for Otterton drag racing youngster Baxter Williams when he travelled to Cornwall on the second weekend of February.
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