| Then Drag Racing Online Magazine Drag racing was spreading quickly across the U.S. by the mid ’50s and the mammoth Quad Cities area had no drag strip. Bob lived there … By 1957 he opened Quad Cities Dragway (now Cordova International Raceway) and started the World Series of Drag Racing there on the last weekend of August.
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| WA junior drag racing yet to resume after Perth fatal crash NEWS.com.au Through tragedy and bureaucracy, they are stuck in limbo six months after a State Government ban on junior drag racing in WA, imposed days after eight-year-old Anita Board died following a crash at Perth Motorplex. Anita crashed her My Little Pony dragster into a concrete barrier at the end of a solo …
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| WA junior drag racing yet to resume after Perth fatal crash PerthNow THESE kids are desperate to race, wanting nothing more than to return to a sport they love, but instead have been forced to sit on the sidelines. Through tragedy and bureaucracy, they are stuck in limbo six months after a State Government ban on junior drag racing in WA, imposed days after …
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| Busch Brothers Sweep Front Row on Bush’s Beans Pole Day TricitiesSports.com It’s real similar to drag racing. It’s a quarter-mile long and any time you have one little slip you don’t have time to gain it back. Except here, it’s just two quarter-miles. I slipped up just a little bit in Turn 1 and that was all that Kyle needed to get by us." Qualifying proved to be an exercise in gamesmanship.
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| Weekend planner: Monster trucks, coffee talks, and last chance at RBG frogs TheSpec.com Cruise on over to the Warplane Heritage Museum, Sunday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and see the drag racing vehicles form the beginning of the sport to present. Lot of memorabilia, vendors and personalities will be there to sign autographs. Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, 9280 Airport Rd., Mount …
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| Rutherford Feted By Road Racers RacinToday.com On hand to celebrate Rutherford’s short-track heritage were Ken Schrader, Ron “Sleepy” Tripp, Kevin Olson and Jeff Haywood, as well as NHRA drag racing legend Don “The Snake” Prudhomme. Rutherford’s career path from the dirt bull rings of North Texas to the 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway …
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