| Napa man dies in 100-mph drag racing crash at Sonoma Raceway The Mercury News SONOMA RACEWAY — A 75-year-old Napa man died Wednesday night when the 1976 Ford Pinto he was drag racing at Sonoma Raceway hit a wall at more than 100 miles per hour, officials said. The crash occurred about 6:15 p.m. during the raceway’s popular Wednesday Night Drags program. Napa Man Dead In Sonoma Raceway Drag Racing Crash – Patch.com
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| VOLUME XX, NUMBER 3 – MARCH, 2018 Drag Racing Online Magazine Craig Bourgeois, Metairie, LA, and Craig Gualtiere, Amarillo, TX, took home the wins in Comp Eliminator and Super Stock respectively at Royal Purple Raceway in the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series. Bourgeois, worked his way through the field in his ’05 Nostalgia Dragster and ran 7.422 seconds …
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| SF Motors challenges Tesla for the drag-racing SUV market Fast Company Americans love sport utility vehicles (SUVs) and their little siblings, crossovers. They made up 42% of U.S. auto sales in 2017, increasing as traditional car sales drop. But aside from the Tesla Model X, typical electric vehicles have been either luxury sedans like the Model S or small cars like the Chevy …
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| This Boosted Jeep CJ5 is Ready for Drag Racing Action Hot Rod Network Drag racing is an addiction that consumes the lives of gear heads around the world. It causes people to spend lots of money, week after week, as they seek the thrill of the chase. Quicker elapsed times, a better launch or maybe just one more mile per hour on the big end- it’s all part of the game.
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| 75-Year-Old Drag Racer Dies When Vehicle Hits Wall Going At Least 100 MPH CBS San Francisco Bay Area At about 6:15 p.m., the California Highway Patrol reported the death, which occurred at a drag racing program at the raceway at 29355 Arnold Drive in Sonoma. The driver was racing his 1976 Ford Pinto on the facility’s quarter-mile drag strip when the accident happened, according to the Sonoma …
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| The $10K Drag Shootout Final 10: Redline Renegade Warriors Dragzine.com Our second finalist, Matt Bell’s name should be a familiar one to small-tire drag racing followers around the nation — the Illinois native has made his mark on the sport over the last decade, campaigning competitive and winning machines in NMRA Drag Radial, MX235, and most recently, Limited Drag …
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| Ebersbacher stats season with win at Kern County Raceway The Bakersfield Californian The club first started drag racing at Maricopa in 1951 and in 1954 struck a deal to lease the large expanse of asphalt north of town which was named Famoso Drag Strip. The club held the first U.S. Fuel and Gas Championships (which later became known as the March Meet) there in 1959, luring Don …
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| Update: 75-Year-Old Drag Racer Dies In Crash At Sonoma Raceway SFGate At about 6:10 p.m., the California Highway Patrol reported the death, which occurred at a Sonoma Drags & Drifts program at the raceway at 29355 Arnold Drive. The man was drag racing a 1976 Ford Pinto on the raceway’s quarter-mile drag strip when the crash occurred. The man was the only racer on …
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| Richard Petty’s Barracuda to be on display Richmond County Daily Journal “The Pettys did so much for racing, not just in the Carolinas but nationwide,” Rockingham Dragway owner Steve Earwood said last year. “Not many people know about Richard’s drag-racing career. In addition to racing himself with the ’43 Jr.’ car, he and his brother Maurice also helped Roy Hill in his Pro …
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| A racer’s need for speed The Daily Planet The 69-year-old Ridgway resident is part of drag-racing royalty. He’s the son of speed king Mickey Thompson — one of the fastest Americans in history. The Thompsons were featured on a recent episode of “Strange Inheritance with Jamie Colby,” which initially aired on the Fox Business channel earlier …
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