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4/27/18 Drag Racing News

Land Lines: A day with drag racing legend Don Garlits Hometown News (press release) (blog)
During that big rain episode we had in the second week of April, folks from Motor Racing Heritage Association and I drove over to spend some time with Big Daddy Don Garlits at his museum of drag racing and antique autos. It had been several years since I was there and I was happy to see all the …$10K Drag Shootout: The Finalists Tell All!Chevy Hardcore (blog)
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Coos Bay Speedway scheduled to host drag racing Coos Bay World
Coos Bay Speedway will host three days of drag racing this weekend, including bracket racing on the one-eighth mile drag strip on Saturday and Sunday and an open test and tune for NHRA competitors and late-night fun for everyone else with the season’s first Midnight Drags on Friday. Friday’s event …
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Ballarat drag racer Craig Geddes plotting next national championship tilt Ballarat Courier
Ballarat drag racer Craig Geddes is setting his sights on a fourth consecutive national title. Ballarat’s Craig Geddes on his way to a fifth national drag racing title. Picture: Outlaw Images. Geddes already has a special place in Australian Sportsman Series championship history, having become the first …
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The female drag racer aiming to make history at Top Fuel 9news.com.au
Mr Board said there were many junior sport disciplines that had lost young people, but the fact that this was the first one in the 40-year history of junior drag racing had touched a lot of people around the world. “The motor rally family rallied big time,” he said. Bettes said she was born into this amazing …

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She quit ballet at the age of 10 to take up the thrilling sport of drag racing Daily Mail
A graphic designer from Brisbane aims to make Australian history by becoming the first woman to win Top Fuel championship, Australia’s equivalent of Formula 1. At the age of 10, Kelly Bettes, now 33, decided that she did not want to practice ballet anymore and swapped her tutu and ballet flats for the …
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Drag racing’s Force family knows they can’t escape ‘the monster.’ They race anyway. Charlotte Observer
The Force family is synonymous with drag racing. John, 68, the sport’s biggest star, has a record 145 victories and 16 NHRA Funny Car championships, as well as 20 as team owner of John Force Racing. Brittany won the Top Fuel championship last season. Courtney, with nine career victories, finished …
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Drag racing’s Force family knows they can’t escape ‘the monster.’ They race anyway. Durham Herald Sun
It has been a frightening and violent season for drag racing’s Force family. As patriarch John Force constantly reminds his racing daughters: “The monster is out there.” And it has visited the Force family twice this season. “The monster” Force invokes is the unrelenting specter of danger that hovers above …
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