BILL WILLIAMS PASSES
Tue, 2008-04-15 09:42
Billy Williams, who won the 1979 NHRA Pro
Comp Championship and twice won the U.S. Nationals, died April 14. He
was 63, and had been hospitalized since he was critically injured in
the March 22, 2002, after a crash in his Alcohol Funny Car in Rockingham , N.C.
Billy Williams, who won the 1979 NHRA Pro
Comp Championship and twice won the U.S. Nationals, died April 14. He
was 63, and had been hospitalized since he was critically injured in
the March 22, 2002, after a crash in his Alcohol Funny Car in
Williams suffered head injuries and multiple fractures when his 2002 Firebird suffered an engine failure and drove hard into the guardwall.
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