Don Bowles, 70, sat in his custom bus Friday afternoon watching a video.
The former class racing standout wasn’t watching one of his old videos of winning NHRA national events from back in the day.
Instead, the former U.S. Nationals runner-up, now out of retirement,
studied the video, fast forwarding and rewinding of the qualifying run
he had made earlier in the day at Zmax Dragway. He and his associates
were trying to figure out what was going wrong with the car as it
hurtled down the quarter mile.
Bowles has found a new lease on his racing life as a racer on the
National Mustang Racing Association’s Hot Street division. He’s also
got a second car, a NASCAR engine powered 2008 Mustang, but that’s a
story for another day.