Motorsports Newsletter 3/02/23

By Richard Parks 1) Bill Montgomery and Hillbank Motorsports invited my wife and I to the 3rd annual Winter Hillbank Performance History Steam Job Fair Presentation in Irvine, California on February 26th. Bill works tirelessly to promote educational opportunities to young people and these … [Read more...]

Gone Racin’: Bonneville Racing News

Dear Friends of Motorsports: Happy Holidays and may you all have a wonderful New Year. Here are a few notices to read or mark on your calendar. If you can help Wendy Jeffries save the Bonneville Racing News, a wonderful addition to land speed racing, all of us will be in your debt. Thank … [Read more...]

Richard Parks Notes: Bonneville Racing News and More

Dear Friends of Motorsports: Happy Holidays and may you all have a wonderful New Year. Here are a few notices to read or mark on your calendar. If you can help Wendy Jeffries save the Bonneville Racing News, a wonderful addition to land speed racing, all of us will be in your debt. Thank … [Read more...]

Gone Racin’: We Lost Two Great People

1) Bobby East, a 37-year-old NASCAR driver, was stabbed to death at a gas station in California this week, Fox News reported. Police in Westminster, California, say Bobby East, who competed in the United States Auto Club division, was attacked at a gas station Wednesday evening after he stopped to … [Read more...]

Book Review: A Trio by David McGee

Bristol Dragway Bristol Motor Speedway Kingsport Speedway If you want to know something about racing in eastern Tennessee, there is one go-to guy to ask – David McGee. I met David in the 1980s on the sidelines of the IHRA Winter Nationals at Darlington. I had just accepted the gig of producing … [Read more...]

El Mirage land speed time trials June 2022

Mike Kaehny is the record keeper for the SCTA dry lakes land speed time trials. This was a function that my father, Wally Parks, was responsible for in the 1940s before becoming Editor of Hot Rod Magazine and then founding the NHRA. I know that he would be very proud of the men and women volunteers … [Read more...]

Personal Bests: 2022 NHRA Winters, Phoenix, Gainesville

Steve Klemetti provides the new drivers and personal best elapsed times and speeds from the first three national events of the 2022 NHRA season. He also adds some corrected info from 2021 Bristol. New Entries from the First Three Races of the Year Class Driver Best ET Speed Year Track PMD … [Read more...]

Personal Bests: 2021 NHRA St. Louis to the Pomona Finals

Steve Klemetti wraps up the new drivers and new personal best elapsed times and speeds from the second half of the 2021 NHRA National event season. New Entries Class Driver Best ET Speed Year Track PMD Dmitry Samorukov 6.125 234.82 2021 VEGAS 2 TAD Mike Coughlin 5.227 271.95 2021 VEGAS … [Read more...]

Personal Bests: 2021 Pomona “Winters,” Topeka, Brainerd

Steve Klemetti catches us up on the new personal best elapsed times and speeds from the 2021 NHRA Pomona "Winternationals," Topeka, and Brainerd national events. New Personal Best Elapsed Times CLASS Driver Previous Best ET New Best ET AAFK Chris King 2021 Denver 30.000 -24.224 5.776 2021 … [Read more...]

Personal Bests: 2021 Norwalk, Denver, Sonoma

Steve Klemetti details the new drivers and new personal best elapsed times and speeds from 2021 NHRA Norwalk, Denver, and Sonoma. New Drivers Class Driver Best ET Speed Year Track AAFK Tony Jurado 4.176 270.86 2021 SONOMA AAFK Jason Rupert 5.199 155.44 2021 SONOMA AAFK Chris King 99.999 … [Read more...]