Has it really been 35 years since Atlanta Dragway hosted the 1986 NHRA Southern Nationals?
Talk about an event chock full of excitement. Whether it was Big and Shirley lining up in Top Fuel, or an up and coming John Force battling it out with the likes of Ed McCulloch and Jim Head, or the famous Bob Glidden race against Butch Leal. This event flashback promises to generate some memories of days gone by.
Storytellers, the entertaining series created by the producers of Legends: The Series, allows drag racing's legends to tell their stories of the good old days for drag racing.
In this episode, Billy Meyer tells about the time a fender bender with a Pro Stock team ended up getting him in hot water with NHRA and believe it or not, the FBI. It's the class story of alcohol, weapons, violence and a former President. Folks, you just can't make up stuff this good, as it's told by Waco Willie.
The year was 1988 and NHRA was engaged in a full-scale war, the likes of which hadn't been seen since the IHRA became a formidable force in drag racing. Texas Motorplex owner Billy Meyer had just purchased the series from Larry Carrier and moved it to Waco, Texas, and likewise pulled his crown jewel of a race track out of the NHRA and put it in IHRA.
At the time there were milestones on the verge of being broken, and one of those was the first quarter-mile four-second pass. On this weekend, in 1988, the mark fell.
It's a day with Duck, "Donald 'Duck" Long," Drag Radial racing's most iconic promoter. We've got a few minutes of footage we've compiled into this single presentation from two of 2020's final races through the cameras of noted videographers Jake Simmons and Les Mayhew.
Drag racing boasts a diversity of participation that is the envy of every other motor racing discipline on the planet. But, how diverse would the sport be today had there never been a woman with the fiery determination of Shirley “Cha Cha” Muldowney?
While Shirley Shahan, Judy Lilly and others had broken drag racing’s gender barrier long before Muldowney left the streets of Schenectady, N.Y., they earned their NHRA hardware in cars that could have been driven to and from church, school or the corner store.
When Muldowney burst upon the scene in the early 1970s, though, she wasn’t interested in driving a Dodge or Ford or Chevrolet. She was hell bent on mashing the pedal on a Top Fuel dragster, a purpose-built race car that even in 1973 was capable of zero to 240 mile per hour acceleration in less than six seconds.
In this episode of LEGENDS: THE SERIES, CompetitionPlus.tv takes a look behind the scenes of what made Doner tick, the outlandish promotions and what led him to retire from his breakneck schedule in 1979.
Travel back in time to the 1982 NHRA Springnationals, an event chock full of excitement and controversy. You will see drivers Shirley Muldowney and Lucille Lee go head-to-head in both competition and controversy.
You'll see the emergence of Frank Hawley as a Funny Car driver as well as Bob Glidden's Ford EXP, one of the champion's least favorite cars.
Has it really been 35 years since Atlanta Dragway hosted the 1986 NHRA Southern Nationals?
The year was 1988 and NHRA was engaged in a full-scale war, the likes of which hadn't been seen since the IHRA became a formidable force in drag racing. Texas Motorplex owner Billy Meyer had just purchased the series from Larry Carrier and moved it to Waco, Texas, and likewise pulled his crown jewel of a race track out of the NHRA and put it in IHRA.
It's a day with Duck, "Donald 'Duck" Long," Drag Radial racing's most iconic promoter. We've got a few minutes of footage we've compiled into this single presentation from two of 2020's final races through the cameras of noted videographers Jake Simmons and Les Mayhew.
Drag racing boasts a diversity of participation that is the envy of every other motor racing discipline on the planet. But, how diverse would the sport be today had there never been a woman with the fiery determination of Shirley “Cha Cha” Muldowney?
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