GLIDDEN CHERISHES MEMORIES
Wed, 2008-09-03 11:29
He’s been retired for quite some time now, but Bob Glidden can still draw the race fans.
The ten-time NHRA Pro Stock world champion and 85-time national event winner feels a debt to them. He credits them with enabling him to live out his dream.
“Fans never forget,” Glidden said. “We've always been good to our fans and our fans have been great to us. It never fails, the fans come by and they like to say hi, like an autograph, it's great.” He’s been retired for quite some time now, but Bob Glidden can still draw the race fans.
The ten-time NHRA Pro Stock world champion and 85-time national event winner feels a debt to them. He credits them with enabling him to live out his dream.
“Fans never forget,” Glidden said. “We've always been good to our fans and our fans have been great to us. It never fails, the fans come by and they like to say hi, like an autograph, it's great.”
For Glidden, who was honored in Monday’s NHRA U.S. Nationals pre-race ceremonies, thw weekend's provided a pleasurable experience that ranks right up there with his developing golf game.
“My golf game is horrible, but still love to play it,” Glidden admitted, who judges a good game by the number of balls he loses.
Over the course of the weekend he was hanging out with Pro Stock racer Justin Humphreys, who has said he’d love to have the legend back in his corner. Glidden thinks a lot of the budding superstar but drag racing is not on his radar screen. At least at the moment it isn't.
In the interest of accurate reporting, Glidden has made that comment three or four times before.
“Yup, I've said that, but I've had enough,” Glidden said.
He’s had enough of the rigors of tuning and directing a race operation. Hanging out with the fans and visiting the U.S. Nationals is another thing.
Glidden said he’ll never get enough of the Indy experience. To him, being honored before the race is something he’s not so sure he deserves.
“Etta and the boys and I have had a fairytale world here in drag racing,” admitted Glidden. “And we realize that now that we've been away from it. But I'm very happy that NHRA is honoring us. I'm proud of that, but nothing, no honor can overtake the lifetime we've had in drag racing.”
Indy either.
“This place was just a fantasy land to us,” Glidden said.
Bob
Glidden with wife Etta by his side, was honored during Monday's Indy
pre-race activities. The nine-time Indy champion remains the winningest
professional racer at the prestigious event. (Roger Richards)
The ten-time NHRA Pro Stock world champion and 85-time national event winner feels a debt to them. He credits them with enabling him to live out his dream.
“Fans never forget,” Glidden said. “We've always been good to our fans and our fans have been great to us. It never fails, the fans come by and they like to say hi, like an autograph, it's great.” He’s been retired for quite some time now, but Bob Glidden can still draw the race fans.
Bob Glidden with wife Etta by his side, was honored during Monday's Indy pre-race activities. The nine-time Indy champion remains the winningest professional racer at the prestigious event. (Roger Richards)
The ten-time NHRA Pro Stock world champion and 85-time national event winner feels a debt to them. He credits them with enabling him to live out his dream.
“Fans never forget,” Glidden said. “We've always been good to our fans and our fans have been great to us. It never fails, the fans come by and they like to say hi, like an autograph, it's great.”
For Glidden, who was honored in Monday’s NHRA U.S. Nationals pre-race ceremonies, thw weekend's provided a pleasurable experience that ranks right up there with his developing golf game.
“My golf game is horrible, but still love to play it,” Glidden admitted, who judges a good game by the number of balls he loses.
Over the course of the weekend he was hanging out with Pro Stock racer Justin Humphreys, who has said he’d love to have the legend back in his corner. Glidden thinks a lot of the budding superstar but drag racing is not on his radar screen. At least at the moment it isn't.
In the interest of accurate reporting, Glidden has made that comment three or four times before.
“Yup, I've said that, but I've had enough,” Glidden said.
He’s had enough of the rigors of tuning and directing a race operation. Hanging out with the fans and visiting the U.S. Nationals is another thing.
Glidden said he’ll never get enough of the Indy experience. To him, being honored before the race is something he’s not so sure he deserves.
“Etta and the boys and I have had a fairytale world here in drag racing,” admitted Glidden. “And we realize that now that we've been away from it. But I'm very happy that NHRA is honoring us. I'm proud of that, but nothing, no honor can overtake the lifetime we've had in drag racing.”
Indy either.
“This place was just a fantasy land to us,” Glidden said.
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