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The March Meet continued as a "nostalgia drag race" in 1994 under sanction by the Goodguys Vintage Racing Association. That year Bill Dunlap won Top Fuel, in a race car designed to represent the AA/Fuel Dragster or "front-engine" style of Top Fuel. That historic style of Top Fuel Eliminator is the class that has competed at the March Meet since ...
Shrewsberry is best known as the driver of the drag racing replica of the Barris-built Batmobile from the 1966 television series [1] [2] and of the "L.A. Dart," a series of wheelstanding funny cars each with a rear-mounted, supercharged Chrysler Hemi engine and each sponsored by the Dodge and Plymouth dealers of Los Angeles and Orange Counties ...
The Trojan Horse was a world champion funny car owned by Larry Fullerton from the late 1960s until his death in 1981. Larry Fullerton and the Trojan Horse won the 1972 NHRA world championship setting a then world record.
Cruz Pedregon (born September 19, 1963) is an American two-time NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series Funny Car Champion from Torrance, California. He is the brother of Tony Pedregon, also a two-time Funny Car Champion & Frank Pedregon Jr. who has won multiple NHRA National Events. [1] He currently races for his own team, Cruz Pedregon Racing, Inc.
Early Jack Chrisman funny car from 1965 1971 Mickey Thompson-owned funny car 1975 Gene Snow funny car. A funny car is a type of drag racing vehicle and a specific racing class in organized drag racing. Funny cars are characterized by having tilt-up fiberglass or carbon fiber automotive bodies over a custom-fabricated chassis, giving them an ...
In 2017 Larry Dixon was banned by the NHRA after showing off a two-seater dragster meant to give rides to customers as part of a "drag racing experience." [ 6 ] Larry Dixon responded in 2019 by filing a lawsuit against the NHRA, claiming that the sport banned him as part of an effort to control the market on two seater dragster experiences. [ 7 ]
Robbie Turner, a 'RuPaul's Drag Race' contestant, described surviving a harrowing car crash that left one person dead. It apparently never happened.
With the closure of the Memphis Motorsports Park as of 30 October 2009, [1] the Full Throttle Series is now slated for 23 events: [2] The Virginia NHRA Nationals has also been eliminated, as Virginia Motorsports Park chose to align with rival Kenneth Feld's International Hot Rod Association instead (many tracks changed sanctioning, owing to their sportsman classes).