NHRA: Jeg’s Trucks are ready to roll
Mar 15, 2001
Posted By Terry Callahan Motorsports Editor, The Auto Channel March 15, 2001 The Pro Stock Truck class will return to the quarter-mile battlefield after a five-week break at the Mac Tools Gatornationals (March15-18). All five professional classes will be competing at Gainesville Raceway. Team Jeg’s is determined ... Continue reading
NHRA: Bruce Sarver fitting in with Alan Johnson Racing
Mar 13, 2001
March 13, 2001 GAINESVILLE, Fla. - Bruce Sarver is fitting in just fine with the e-moola.com Funny Car and the entire Alan Johnson Racing team. Sarver, Johnson and the entire team were excited for the NHRA's 50th Anniversary season to begin. Their momentum continued during the first two races as Sarver won the season-o ... Continue reading
NHRA: Mac Tools Gatornationals to showcase maximum performance
Mar 13, 2001
March 13, 2001 GAINESVILLE, Fla. - There's nothing quite like the electric atmosphere produced when a pair of richly-tuned, nitro-burning Top Fuel dragsters pop and crackle at the starting line, awaiting the green light to flash at one of the NHRA's premier speedplants. The explosive blast that thunders from two 6,000 ... Continue reading
NHRA: Warren Johnson regains form heading to Florida
Mar 13, 2001
March 13, 2001 GAINESVILLE, Fla. - Few competitors in NHRA Winston Drag Racing, or any form of motorsports for that matter, can put together a racing resume as impressive as the one Warren Johnson has assembled over the past 25 years. The 57-year old driver from Buford, Ga., is a five-time NHRA Winston Pro Stock champi ... Continue reading
NHRA: Hines Changes Body Style, In More Ways than one
Mar 13, 2001
March 13, 2001 After three consecutive NHRA Winston Pro Stock Motorcycle championships from 1997-1999, Eagle One Suzuki rider Matt Hines finished second in points last year. Hines, 28, admits that has "sparked a little more fire in me" going into this weekend's (March 16-18) Mac Tools Gatornationals in Gainesville, Fla ... Continue reading
NHRA's 50 GREATEST DRIVERS: Number 40, Frank Manzo
Mar 12, 2001
March 13, 2001 Perhaps more than any other honoree among NHRA's 50 greatest drivers, Frank Manzo is enjoying greater success now than he has at any point in his storied career. Manzo has won more NHRA national events in Federal-Mogul Funny Car (41) than anyone except Pat Austin (68), and has claimed more championships ... Continue reading
NHRA FMDRS: Orlando Speed World Dragway, Final Results
Mar 12, 2001
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NHRA FEDERAL-MOGUL DRAG RACING SERIES-SOUTHEAST DIVISION ORLANDO SPEED WORLD DRAGWAY SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 2001 HENTGES, SMITH MAKE IT A DOUBLE IN NHRA SOUTHEAST DIVISONAL COMPETITION ORLANDO, Fla. - Another beautiful day for the NHRA Federal-Mogul Drag Racing Series Florida Nationals at Orlando Speed ... Continue reading
NHRA FMDRS: Fuentes, Stidam take lead at State Capital Dragway
Mar 12, 2001
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NHRA FEDERAL-MOGUL DRAG RACING SERIES - SOUTH CENTRAL DIVISION STATE CAPITOL DRAGWAY, BATON ROUGE, LOUISANA SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 2001 FUENTES, STIDHAM TAKE THE LEAD AT STATE CAPITOL DRAGWAY BATON ROUGE, La. - Rookie Federal-Mogul Dragster driver Joe Fuentes of Leander, Texas, set a track record for ... Continue reading
NHRA: Series Standings, March 9, 2001
Mar 9, 2001
Top Fuel 1. Darrell Russell, 205. 2. Doug Kalitta, 170. 3. ... Continue reading
NHRA's 50 GREATEST DRIVERS: Number 41; John Mulligan
Mar 7, 2001
In the 1960s, Top Fuel drivers sat behind the engine and the best drivers were measured by much more than their reaction times. The slingshot dragsters didn't have centrifugal clutches, but stock-style spring clutches that made the driver's ability to feather the throttle and clutch pedals so as to leave the starting l ... Continue reading
NHRA's 50 GREATEST DRIVERS: Number 42: David Rampy
Mar 3, 2001
David Rampy is a leader in many of NHRA's statistical categories, including one that you won't find in the NHRA Media Guide: He's the undisputed all-time NHRA leader in humbleness. He's won NHRA season championships in three classes. He's tied for 10th among NHRA's all-time national event winners. He's one of a handful ... Continue reading
NHRA: Alderman has experienced highs and lows during memorable career
Mar 2, 2001
March 20, 2001 BAYTOWN, Texas - Darrell Alderman was on top of the world in the early 1990s. He won his first two NHRA Winston Pro Stock championships in '90 and '91. During his 1991 campaign he recorded 11 victories in 14 final round appearances. The win total still stands as the modern day record for most national ev ... Continue reading
NHRA's 50 GREATEST DRIVERS: Number 43; Frank Hawley
Mar 1, 2001
March 1, 2001 It wasn't John Force who first made Austin Coil a world championship tuner, nor was it Force who gave Coil his first NHRA national event win. That honor belongs to the driver who today is best known as the founder of drag racing's original driving school, Frank Hawley. In his 10-year fuel career, Hawley w ... Continue reading
Federal-Mogul Drag Racing Series--Texas Motorplex Final Results
Feb 26, 2001
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NHRA FEDERAL-MOGUL DRAG RACING SERIES-SOUTH CENTRAL DIVISION TEXAS MOTORPLEX SUNDAY, FEB. 25, 2001 STIDHAM TAKES HOME ALL THE HONORS AT THE TEXAS MOTORPLEX ENNIS, Texas. - Clear blue skies and cool air greeted the racers as they took the track for the final day of the Dash for Cash Federal-Mogul D ... Continue reading
Notes from FMDRS--Texas Motorplex
Feb 26, 2001
NOTES FROM THE NHRA FEDERAL-MOGUL DRAG RACING SERIES-TEXAS MOTORPLEX DEFENDING DIVISION CHAMPION, JAY MEYER MISSES COMEBACK AT TEXAS Ennis, Texas- The NHRA South Central Division Federal-Mogul Dragster champion and runner-up Federal-Mogul Dragster national champion, Jay Meyer of Freeport, Texas was slated for a comebac ... Continue reading
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