| VOLUME XX, NUMBER 3 – MARCH, 2018 Drag Racing Online Magazine The K&N Horsepower Challenge at the Las Vegas Nationals rewards the winner of eliminations $50,000. If a driver wins the specialty event and the national event, he or she will earn a $25,000 bonus. “It’s the coolest race of the year for me; I look forward to it,” said Greg Anderson, a six-time winner of …
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| UFC fighter finds NHRA Funny Car ace Shawn Langdon packs a mighty punch Autoweek The driver of the Global Electronic Technology Toyota Camry for Kalitta Motorsports represented drag racing well, except for an accidental tumble on the floor mat. “We did a little … Langdon was back on familiar turf Friday, tutoring Marquez in drag racing and introducing him to the sensory overload.
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| Import Face-Off Series to feature racing, car show, ‘crank it up’ contest Richmond County Daily Journal ROCKINGHAM — Although an unfavorable weather forecast has forced postponement of Saturday’s Mass Acceleration Motorsports test-and-tune event at Rockingham Dragway, clearing Sunday skies should provide ideal conditions for the track’s annual Import Face-Off featuring drag racing and much …
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| Trio inducted into Manitoba Motorsports Hall of Fame Winnipeg Free Press Inductees are recognized for their outstanding devotion and contributions to motorsports in Manitoba and come from the ranks of drag racing, oval track racing, motorcycling, fabrication, customizing, the automotive industry and the street rod and hot rod communities. Special recognition should be given …
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| Hight, Brown, Anderson take Friday poles at first four-wide race in Las Vegas NHRA.com The 2018 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season continued Friday as Robert Hight powered to the Funny Car qualifying lead at the 19th annual DENSO Spark Plugs NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway as Friday’s action marked the debut of the four-wide racing …
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| Denso Spark Plugs Four-Wide NHRA Nationals Friday Notebook: Qualifying Preview NHRA.com Bob Tasca III returned to full-time NHRA Drag Racing this season with Ford back on board and first-time crew chief Eric Lane turning the knobs. The Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals proved to be his best race so far, as the Rhode Island native qualified in 10th, his best position of the season.
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| Preparation underway for MASTERS Race ABC 10 News NOW MARQUETTE — It’s time for one last hurrah on the snowmobile before the spring hits. Marquette Mountain will be packed this weekend. The Masters racing Circuit is holding their Snow Drag Championships at Marquette Mountain on Saturday. Events will feature drag racing, hill climbing, and for the …
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| NHRA: Robert Hight, Antron Brown, Greg Anderson are first day 4-wide No. 1 qualifiers at Las Vegas NBC Sports – Motorsports (blog) The second round of qualifying will be Saturday, with final eliminations set for Sunday for the fourth race on the 24-event 2018 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series schedule. In Funny Car: Hight set the pace with a run of 3.693 seconds at 321.42 mph. He’s hoping to hold on to his lead in Saturday’s …
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| Francis ‘Sonny’ T. Dwyer Jr. Gloversville Leader-Herald Sonny drove a drag racing car in his younger years, running in the C.C. Class and coming .10th of a second from holding a national record. Sonny was a special man with many talents. No one worked harder for his family and community. He leaves behind not only his loving wife, Carol Luck Dwyer, but …
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| ‘You’re rooting for the good guys, and you can just smell and breathe the bad guys’ Minnesota Public Radio News Brown’s descriptions of Rory’s bad deeds, running whiskey and drag racing in the mountains, have a folkloric feel to them, Waters said. "It’s in the tradition of Ron Rash and another less well-known writer, Wiley Cash. They’re all marvelous storytellers." "At the crux of the novel is just this great atmospheric …
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