What's New at The Drag Racing List

June 30, 2002 - Draglist.com/Computer Magic Online Message Board. Come join the 116 drag racers and fans who make up our new message board community.

Drag Racing Story of the Day: Cowin, Cannon, Yates and Savoie Qualify at the Top at Sears Craftsman NHRA Nationals. NHRA Communications provides final qualifying results and first round pairings from St. Louis.

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PhilZone: Changes: The Transition from Gary Scelzi to Bruce Sarver. Phil Elliott discusses the events that led to this and other recent changes in drag racing camps.

Personal Best with Steve Klemetti: New driver, ET, and MPH updates from NHRA Columbus and IHRA Grand Bend 2002. Steve has plenty of good new stuff from the great Midwest and North of the Border.

Drag Racing Movie of the Week: Outlaw Pro Mod Burnouts at Night! Mark Fawcus has moved from Britain to Florida and here's his great clip of Mike Neal in the Stroud Racing Studebaker at Emerald Coast Dragway.

Draglist.com Southern Fuel Coupes: Keith Floyd Wins Wilkesboro Southern Fuel Coupes. Bob Gettys reports that Floyd took his Pro Mod Corvette past all the blown altereds and funny cars to win the latest Draglist.com SFC event.

June 29, 2002 - Drag Racing Story of the Day: Cowin, Cannon, Yates, and Savoie Lead Qualifying Order at Sears Craftsman Nationals. NHRA Communications provides first day qualifying from hot, sticky St. Louis.

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June 28, 2002 - Drag Racing Story of the Day: Super Camaro and Son: 40 Years of Drag Racing Memories. Perry S. Wyatt, Jr., has put together a great story for his dad, Perry Wyatt, Sr., who drove the Super Camaro funny car. Perry kindly consented to share his story with Draglist.com readers. As it spans 40 years, we are going to run it in installments. Here is installment one.

Drag Racing Picture of the Day: Broome and Savage Win Nostalgia AA/FA at Tucson. Buzzz Miller took several awesome shots of both modern "transformer" and nostalgia fuel altereds at Tucson. Here's his shot of the Nostalgia category winning Broome and Savage "Old Glory" machine, plus links to more AA/FA photos.

June 27, 2002 - Drag Racing Story of the Day: Changes: The Transition from Gary Scelzi to Bruce Sarver. Phil Elliott discusses the events that led to this and other recent changes in drag racing camps.

Drag Racing Picture of the Day: A/Fuel Dragster at the Late, Great Sears Point. Bryan Ellis captured this great nostalgia A/Fueler leaving the line at Sears Point before they renamed the place to Inferon Field or whatever the hell it's called.

June 26, 2002 - Drag Racing Story of the Day: Parking in the Neighbor's Driveway. Gary Peters tells another terrifying and amazing tale of towing the Hemi Hunter fueler on the highways of the East.

Drag Racing Picture of the Day: Steve Neese Sets the All Time AA/Fuel Altered World Record! Jerry Lacy was in Tucson this past weekend as Steve Neese shocked the drag racing world with an ungodly 5.42/282 run in his AA/FA. Here are three pics of the run.

June 24-25, 2002 - Drag Racing Story of the Day: Keith Floyd Wins Wilkesboro Southern Fuel Coupes. Bob Gettys reports that Floyd took his Pro Mod Corvette past all the blown altereds and funny cars to win the latest Draglist.com SFC event.

Drag Racing Picture of the Day: Dave Sano's Amazing Funny Car Fire Burnout. "Berserko" Bob Doerrer and Dave Milcarek team up to showcase Dave Sano's amazing Corvette, just part of the lineup coming to Englishtown on July 27 and 28.

PhilZone: A Quintet of Classic Chevys. Flyin' Phil Elliott captured these five great looking machines at NHRA Las Vegas earlier this year.

June 23, 2002 - Drag Racing Story of the Day: Mountain Motors Photo Review 2 - BIG! Lots more Stephen Hawes photos of Mountain Motor Pro Stock and Frantic 7 Pro Mod action from Budds Creek Wednesday night.

Drag Racing Picture of the Day: Wyman Barnett in Steve Bagwell's Dodge Pro Stock. Bob Fermier provided this great shot of Pro Stock from the classic era, with two Southern Mopar legends teaming up.

PhilZone: A Quintet of Classic Chevys. Flyin' Phil Elliott captured these five great looking machines at NHRA Las Vegas earlier this year.

Drag Racing Movie of the Week: Andy Carter and Barry Sheavills: Side by Side Fours at 300 in Europe! Bob and Anni Valder got this footage of the first side by side, 4-second, 300 mph top fuel pass outside of North America.

Breaking News: Hanna Motorsports Announces New Queen of Diamonds. Al Hanna reports that jet dragster veteran Aggi Hendriks will drive his high tech machine for 2002.

June 22, 2002 - Drag Racing Story of the Day: Mountain Motors Photo Review 1. Stephen Hawes of HoleShot Photography sent in dozens of shots from the big Pro Stock race at MIR Wednesday night. Here are the winners and runners up. More to come!

Drag Racing Picture of the Day: Kinsley's Wild Child Top Alcohol Funny Car Gets Wild! Dave Kommel of Auto Imagery caught Kebin with all four wheels off the ground at NHRA Houston.

June 21, 2002 - Drag Racing Story of the Day: Interview with the Pros: Tony Pedregon. NHRA Communications got this interview with the youngest Pedregon brother, including his thoughts on funny car racing in general and being part of the John Force super team.

Drag Racing Picture of the Day: Dave Strickler's Mooneyes '62 Chevy in Plastic. Wendell Sowers shows off another awesome model car.

June 20, 2002 - Drag Racing Story of the Day: Baker Dominates 24th Annual Mountain Motor Nationals at MIR. Carl Baker held a clinic at MIR last night, nearly eclipsing both world records in winning the prestigious independent Pro Stock event.

Drag Racing Picture of the Day: Freight Train Keeps A Rollin'. Tom West got this great shot of the business end of the legendary Top Gas Dragster.

June 19, 2002 - Work and Problems! Hi gang. No updates today, as I'm working 14 hour night shifts at work to finish up a computer project. Also, we've had some troubles getting emails since the 15th, so if we haven't responded, that's why. I would catch up now, but I'm off to announce the Mountain Motor Nationals Pro Stock race at MIR! I'll report on the results when I get home at about 2am tomorrow morning. Until then, SEE YA! Bill

June 18, 2002 - Drag Racing Story of the Day: Tales of the Piston Pushers Hot Rod Club. Gary Peters entertains us with another hilarious tale from Hot Rodding's golden days.

Drag Racing Picture of the Day: A Quintet of Classic Chevys. Flyin' Phil Elliott captured these five great looking machines at NHRA Las Vegas earlier this year.

June 17, 2002 - Drag Racing Story of the Day: Dixon, Capps Give Prudhomme Daily-Double at Pontiac Excitement Nationals; Anderson, Treble also score victories at NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series event. NHRA Communications provides final results from Columbus.

Drag Racing Picture of the Day: Jason Howell's Home Built Chevy Fueler. Brother Tim Pratt took this cool launch shot of Jason Howell at the 2001 CHRR.

June 16, 2002 - Draglist.com Has a New Message Board! Thanks to our partner Bob Gettys of Computer Magic Online, we have a new message board! Our message board does a few things: it adds interactivity to the site, lets us bring you some new features, and gives us a new home for some of the Draglist features that have fallen by the wayside a bit. We get so much great stuff through the email, but unfortunately, my schedule usually keeps it right there in the inbox. With our new message board, folks can post stuff directly on draglist.com! I can post the stuff I get via email there, too, and I can get it up much more quickly because I don't have to worry about formatting a new page, doing all the navigation, etc. Click on the link and let's get rolling!

Drag Racing Story of the Day: Bernstein, Bazemore, Yates and Hines Earn No. 1 Qualifying Spots at Pontiac Excitement Nationals. NHRA Communications provides final qualifying results and first round pairings from Columbus.

Drag Racing Picture of the Day: Nitrous Ford Mustang in Swedish Pro Mod. Hasse Karlsson caught Roger J launching his blue oval missile off the line in Scandinavia.

Drag Racing Movie of the Week: Andrew Cowin and Jim Read: Side by Side Fours in Oz! Carl Witt captured Australian drag racing history at this past weekend's Winternationals as the granddaddy of Aussie drag racing met the kid in this titanic qualifying battle.

Personal Best with Steve Klemetti: New driver, ET, and MPH updates from NHRA Joliet 2002. Steve has the new numbers from Chicago. Surprisingly, the improvements are sparse this time.

June 15, 2002 - Drag Racing Story of the Day: Bernstein, Bazemore, Johnson and Savoie Lead NHRA Qualifying Friday at Pontiac Excitement Nationals. NHRA Communications provides day one numbers from Columbus.

Drag Racing Picture of the Day: Funny Car Burnouts in the Great Northwest. Sheryl Ogonoski captured this great side by side burnout battle between Darrell Webb and Jamie Kemp.

June 14, 2002 - Drag Racing Story of the Day: Interview with the Pros: Scotty Cannon. NHRA Communications catches up with the mohawked one and gets his views on Funny Car racing, Oakley, Whit Bazemore, and when that first nitro win will come.

Drag Racing Picture of the Day: Neil Townson's Blown Altered: Bad and British! Sharkman captured this ornery English altered as it boiled the hides.

June 13, 2002 - Drag Racing Story of the Day: Badco Does the 2002 Charlestown Dragway Reunion. Bill Ott tells all about the party leading up to the fifth running of this super East Coast drag gathering.

Drag Racing Picture of the Day: David Ray's Mustang IHRA Pro Funny Car. Ron Dilley caught the latest Butler, Inc. alcohol funny car on a smoky burnout.

June 12, 2002 - Drag Racing Story of the Day: The White Elephant Stocker at Caddo Mills. Danny White sent in this log of events from the first actual race in his U/Stock Automatic Chevy II. 

Drag Racing Picture of the Day: Rich Facciano's A/Gas '32 Ford Roadster. Robert Briggs took this shot of the Sears Point winner in his awesome, bone stock looking '32 Ford.

June 11, 2002 - Drag Racing Story of the Day: David Ray's Dream Weekend at the '71 Finals. David Ray recalls what it felt like and what it took to go to the semifinals of Funny Car Elminator at the 1971 NHRA World Finals.

Drag Racing Picture of the Day: Larry Dixon Goes Too Far with the Elvis Thing. Rick Menges drew this cartoon of the Snake Racing Top Fuel team taking the Elvis deal from Las Vegas to an unhealthy level.

June 10, 2002 - Drag Racing Story of the Day: Millican and Rector Take Fifth Straight Hooters/IHRA Drag Racing Series Season Win at Mopar Performance Parts Canadian Nationals. IHRA Communications provides final results from Grand Bend.

Drag Racing Picture of the Day: Bob Rosetty's Rollin' Stoned Cuda Funny Car. "Berserko" Bob Doerrer and Dave Milcarek team up to show off one of the nicest drag racing cars in recent memory.

June 09, 2002 - Drag Racing Story of the Day: Millican Top Qualifier at IHRA Mopar Performance Parts Canadian Nationals. IHRA Communications provides final qualifying results and first round pairings from Grand Bend, Ontario.

Drag Racing Picture of the Day: Pro Stock Thrash, AHRA Style. Rick Howard shot the Chuck Aronson AHRA Pro Stock Mustang undergoing leisurely between rounds maintenance at Dragway 42 in 1981.

Drag Racing Movie of the Week: Ride Along on a 10-Second Wheelstanding Run! Sharkman rode along and shot video as Steve Wells took his screaming machine to a wheels up, 120 mph pass.

Draglist.com Southeastern Gasser Tour: Wilkesboro Titles to McConnell and Austin. Rickie Bowie reports on the hot Draglist SGT action from last weekend.

Draglist.com Southern Fuel Coupes: Dickey Wins Second Straight at Ware Shoals. Bill Pratt and Bob Gettys team up on words and pics from the second Draglist SFC event of 2002.

June 08, 2002 - Drag Racing Story of the Day: Millican Leads Qualifying at IHRA Mopar Performance Parts Canadian Nationals. Summit FastNews provides day one qualifying from IHRA Ontario.

Drag Racing Picture of the Day: Bad, Blown, Brazilian Camaro. Fabio Felix "Pascoal" sent up this photo of a hot South American Chevy.

June 07, 2002 - Drag Racing Story of the Day: The New Hemi Hunter Makes Its Debut. Gary Peters and the Hemi Hunter itself provide us with details on the car's debut at the East Penn Chevy Show.

Drag Racing Picture of the Day: Gonzo's '57. Ralph "Gonzo" Crosby offers a cool rendition of the eternally classic Chevy.

Personal Best with Steve Klemetti: New driver, ET, and MPH updates from NHRA Topeka 2002. Steve pulls together all the performance gains from the heartland. Also covered: Maple Grove LODRS.

June 06, 2002 - Drag Racing Story of the Day: Records Shattered at Santa Pod. Draglist.com European correspondent Andy Marrs provides the highlights of the historic FIA Main Event in England this past weekend and links to our friends at Eurodragster.com for the full report.

Drag Racing Picture of the Day: Pee Wee Wallace in the Alabamian Satellite Funny Car. Peter Kumble got this great action shot of Pee Wee putting the Alabamian through its paces at Englishtown.

June 05, 2002 - Drag Racing Story of the Day: Southeastern Gassers Invade Wilkesboro. Rickie Bowie reports on the hot Draglist.com Southeastern Gasser Tour action from this past weekend.

Drag Racing Picture of the Day: Don Garlits' Dart 2 at the NHRA Nationals. Pete Gemar shot Big Daddy's crude contraption at Indy.

June 04, 2002 - Drag Racing Story of the Day: Don Roddy: Funny Car Racing with an All-Girl Crew. Bob Gettys profiles one of the most popular and successful funny car teams in the Draglist.com Southern Fuel Coupes.

Drag Racing Picture of the Day: Alan Bockla's Fuel Roadster. Pete Garramone got this shot of a car that was mighty trick for its time.

June 03, 2002 - Drag Racing Story of the Day: Dixon, Worsham, Allen and Savoie Visit Winner's Circle at Chicagoland Dodge Dealers NHRA Nationals. NHRA Communications provides final results from Chicago.

Drag Racing Picture of the Day: Lee Shepherd in the Reher-Morrison Camaro Pro Stock. "Berserko" Bob Doerrer and Norman Blake team up to showcase the famed RMS team, who are still winning in NHRA Pro Stock with Bruce Allen at the wheel.

June 02, 2002 - Drag Racing Story of the Day: (1) Bernstein, Sarver, Yates, and Savoie Earn Top Spots at Chicagoland Dodge Dealers NHRA Nationals.

Drag Racing Picture of the Day: Brasher, Cummings, and Rose '33 Willys Gasser. Paul Hutchins caught the BCR team at rest in the afternoon sun.

Drag Racing Movie of the Week: Mainline Menace Fuel Funny Car: Pits to the Strip. Brian Fawcus filmed Europe' s wildest fuel floppers in the pits and then on the strip.

June 01, 2002 - Drag Racing Story of the Day: Bernstein, Sarver, Yates And Savoie Lead Qualifying at Chicagoland Dodge Dealers NHRA Nationals. NHRA Communications provides first day pro qualifying results from Joliet.

Drag Racing Picture of the Day: Jim Hughes' Bad Hombre '58 Corvette. Paul Fink shot got this great shot of the transmission manufacturer and racer at NHRA Seattle last year.