Millican Takes Top Fuel Title at IHRA Mopar Parts World Nationals.
The full story on the weekend's race, thanks to Larry Sullivan.Drag Racing Picture of the Day:
Brian's
Adventures in Paradise (er, Paragould).
Joel Naprstek words and Pete Orres photo of Brian Kohlman's
wild runs at George Ray's Wildcat Dragstrip in Paragould, Arkansas.
August 25, 26, 27, 2000 -- Hi gang!
I am away at the IHRA World Nationals in Norwalk, Ohio, so I am
pre-loading Stories and Pictures of the Day for Friday, Saturday, and
Sunday. Enjoy (and no peeking until the right day!) OK, go ahead and
peek... bp
Drag Racing Stories of the Day:
8/25/00
- The Nitro Olympics at Hockenheim.
Thanks to Taso, we have all the
coverage we need from the major German meet of the year.
8/26/00
- Pat Foster Tributes. A
follow-on to the Mike Berry's Pat Foster story of 8/23. Pat's friends
thank the author...
8/27/00
- YOU MIGHT BE A RACER IF ...
This thing has made the rounds of the Internet.
Les Welch sent it our way.
Drag Racing Pictures of the Day:
8/25/00 - Rat
Assassin. A beautiful Pete Garramone shot of Roger Guzman's
funny car engine from the '60s. BIG CHROME!
8/26/00
- E-Town Pro Mod: Rocca vs. Stawicki. Art Cimilluca captures
Johnny Rocca's Willys vs. Mike Stawicki's Camaro in mid '90s Pro Mod
action.
8/27/00
- New Toys at the WinterNats. Kevin Knauer with a nice pit shot
of Jim Murphy's Beretta Funny Car at the beginning of the '90s.
August 24, 2000 -- Drag Racing
Story of the Day: Tommy Joe, The Call of the Weird.
Tommy and Gonzo visit Jungleland. Is it about cars? Well, it's
about Tommy Joe! That's good enough for me!
Drag Racing Picture of the Day: Back
when Chucky used to Drive. James Morgan with a cool shot of Chuck
Etchells Datsun Funny Car.
Drag Racing Movie of the Week: Firestorm's
Pre-Race Show! Mark Fawcus brings
us jet funny car flame show action from Great Britain.
Updated Draglist.
August 23, 2000 -- Drag
Racing Story of the Day: Hot
Rod Nostalgia Spurs Creation of Exact Replicas. Mike Berry wrote
this great story on Pat Foster for the Wichita Eagle and has
allowed us to reprint it.
Drag Racing Picture of the Day: Swamp
Rat Was Here. Bruce Wheeler shares this Roy Wells photo of
the Frantic Four dragster after Don Garlits "visited" it in
1965.
August 22, 2000 -- provides a super story of the
first, last, and ONLY AHRA meet of the year.
Drag Racing Picture of the
Day: New VW Pro Mod
World Record! Gonzo
checks in with, of all things, the car that
set the new VW powered Pro Mod world record!
August 21, 2000 -- Drag Racing Story of the Day:
Fugitive
on the Run! Tommy McNeely
tells
about some of the trials and tribulations of running a wheelie car.
Drag
Racing Picture of the Day: More
Pics from the Jet Car Nationals. Stephen Jones was
there and he offers up these choice shots.
August 20, 2000 -- Drag
Racing Story of the Day: Hot
Times at MIR's Jet Car Nationals. I announced
the MIR Jet Car Nationals last night and it was a blast.
Drag
Racing Picture of the Day: Alfred
E Neuman Election Funny Car. Robert Briggs joins our list of
contributors with a nice shot of Dale Creasy's car at Sonoma.
Drag Racing Movie of the Week: Jet Breaking
the Sound Barrier! OK, so it's not drag racing, but when's the
last time you saw footage of a vehicle smashing through the sound barrier?
Updated Personal Best with Steve Klemetti.
Steve provides all the updates from the NHRA Divisional events in
July 2000.
Updated Draglist.
Updated Desperately
Seeking pages.
August 19, 2000 -- Drag
Racing Story of the Day: The
Original Big Mac Attack. How Tod
Mack helped Draglist.com in its early days.
Drag Racing
Picture of the Day: Big
Time Memories! Draglist friend Ron Dilley with a nice pit shot
of other Draglist friend Rocky Pirrone's gasser.
August 18, 2000 -- Drag Racing Story of
the Day: Herzog Wins
River City Pro Mod Shootout. By motorsport.com.
Drag Racing
Picture of the Day: Chutes
in Bloom and Comin' at Ya! Pete Garramone
with a nice top end shot of a front engine dragster.
August 17, 2000 -- Drag
Racing Story of the Day: Tommy
Joe and the UBS/X. Ralph
Crosby with one of the first Tommy Joe stories -- a real life
adventure not really that long ago.
Drag Racing
Picture of the Day: The
View from Down Under. Ash McFee with some great photos of
Australian Drag Racing machines.
August 16, 2000 -- Drag
Racing Story of the Day: Bunny
Burkett, Then and Now. James Morgan
and I team up to pay tribute
to the First Lady of TAFC racing.
Drag Racing Picture of
the Day: The Nasty One
at Tucson. Flyin' Phil Elliott
with a great nighttime burnout shot
of Dave Benjamin's Dodge Charger Funny Car.
August 15, 2000 -- Drag
Racing Story of the Day:
War
Horse Rotates the Earth!
Bruce Mullins becomes the latest Roots blower funny car in the 5.80s!
Drag Racing Picture of the Day:
Wheeling
and Dealing in Bristol. Bruce Wheeler
supplies a photo of his 1967 Top Fueler at Bristol.
August 14, 2000 -- WE'RE
BACK!
We were unable to update our site for three days due to a router
problem at our hosting server. Most of the rest of the world could see our
site, but we could not! That meant that for the first time since we
started our Stories of the Day in February, we did not have new Stories
and Photos for you. We regret that delay, but we finally got the problem
tracked down tonight and the hosting service fixed it. Here are all the
stories, pictures and movies you missed on 8/12, 8/13, and 8/14:
Drag
Racing Story of the Day: Rich
Hanna Continues New England Jet Domination. Billy Anderson
provides
coverage of the weekend's racing activities at New England Dragway with
James Morgan photos.
Drag Racing Picture of the Day:
Eddie
Hill's Pennzoil FED! Ron Dilley with a photo manipulation
of Eddie in a Front Engine Rail.
August 13, 2000 --
How
the Joker Got His Name.
Dick Kalivoda explains where he got the moniker.
Drag
Racing Picture of the Day:
Bird
Catchers Gettin' Frosty at Palmdale.
Kevin Knauer has given us access to some obscure alky funnies photos.
Here is the first.
August 12, 2000 -- Drag
Racing Story of the Day. Nitro
at Night. James Morgan
with photos and
words from another great New England Fuel FC match race.
Drag
Racing Picture of the Day: Fire
at the Academy!
Texas Top Fuel racer Paul Savadin burns
down the house at Temple Academy Raceway!
August 11, 2000 -- Drag Racing Story of the Day: Gymnastics
in Drag Racing. Fred Totten checks in with a
tale of a perfect "10" landing by Dan Geare.
Drag Racing Picture of
the Day: Pro Mod as a
Baby. James Morgan
shows us a taste of Wild Bunch racing -- the
primary East Coast precursor to Pro Mods.
New column!
is
a long time friend of The Drag Racing List. We have been corresponding
from WAY back in the days of the paper Drag Racing List booklet. A
true stats fan, Steve has followed an intertwining, but separate path from
the Drag Racing List. While we have been busy putting together lists of
all the pro, semipro, exhibition, and quicker sportsman racers in the
world, Steve was busy using our lists and his own research to create his
own databases.
Personal Best with Steve Klemetti
features drivers' performance improvements from event to
event during the racing year. After nearly each event, Steve lets us
know which drivers improved their performance, what class they drove in,
the track at which their previous best was recorded, the actual previous
best performance (ET or speed), the updated ET or speed, and the track at
which it was recorded. In addition, Steve sorts the amount of
performance improvement for each driver, so we can follow who improved by
the most. Check it out!
August 10, 2000 -- Drag Racing Story of the Day: Carl
Baker Wins 22nd Mountain Motor Nationals at MIR.
I
was there and here's the preliminary report.
Drag Racing Picture of the
Day: Doug Herbert Goes
Boom in Arizona. Chris Stinson
captures some wild pyrotechnics
from the stands.
August 9, 2000 -- Drag Racing Story of the Day: Funny Cars and Doorslammers to Race
in Malaysia.
The gang in Kuala
Lumpur aren't gonna be ready for this! By Rob Oberg.
Drag Racing
Picture of the Day: Twilight
Zone '86. Art Cimilluca
captures nitro stalwart Bobby Lagana's
match race funny.
August 8, 2000 -- Drag Racing Story of the Day: NHRA
Fram Autolite Nationals Results.
Thanks to motorsport.com.
Drag
Racing Picture of the Day: Reflecting
During a Rain Delay. Gonzo,
a camera, a rainy day, and photo
editing software: you figure it out!
August 7, 2000 -- Drag Racing Story of the Day: Shirley
Muldowney To Race At Indy. Jon Asher
provides great news for all
fans of the first lady of drag racing.
Drag Racing Picture of the Day: Starvin'
Marvin's Lincoln with Alan Bockla on Board. Pete Garramone
with a
great photo form drag racing's glory days.
Drag Racing Movie of the
Week: Top Fuel Action at
Willowbank! Carl and Simon Witt
with more video action from down
under. Updated Draglist.
We have updated the Drag List with 20 MEGABYTES of fresh updates! There are many we still have to enter, but this
brings us up to date with all the updates Danny White sent two
weeks ago. Since then, Ky Michaelson has sent us tons of Rocket updates and
Phil Elliott and Dennis
Doubleday are going through the funny cars lists with special
attention paid to the '60s and '70s. With all this activity, we will
have much to fix very soon!
I also updated the navigation of the site a little
in order to maintain a more uniform appearance and to keep both banners on
the left hand side visible. Instead of a long list of links to each page,
we use a NEXT and BACK format. Hopefully, this will help you to navigate
more easily through draglist.com. Email bilden@draglist.com
with your comments on our new navigation scheme.
Bill strikes again! Danny White sent
me a great story on racer Jim Cornett last fall, which, summarily, got lost in email limbo on my computer. So,
better late than never (I hope), I have placed that story at Danny's
Corner.
Welcome to the
draglist.com parts store! (Note: The parts store was
discontinued in March 2001. bp)
