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Doug Kalitta and Ron Capps opened the 2009 Full Throttle Drag Racing Series season with wins in Funny Car and Top Fuel at the Kragen O’Reilly NHRA Winternationals at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona. Both had not [...]
DEI rookie, Regan Smith showed his chops in the closing laps of the Amp 500 at Talladega. Smith and teammate, Paul Menard were right where they wanted to be. For the final green/white/checker finish it was Tony Stewart leading with the #01 second, #15 sitting third and the #8 forth.
Aric Amirola got dumped out of [...]
When you come to Talladega Superspeedway, you think about the legendary Dale Earnhardt and how he won the most races including the final race of his storied career. Before the restrictor plate era there was a man, Bobby Allison, leader of the legendary ALABAMA GANG.
Bobby Allison, 1983 Winston Cup Champion and leader of the Alabama [...]
Just a few minutes into the first cup practice session, John Darby was on the radio reminding everybody it was just a practice. There they were running 3 and 4 wide down the backstretch at ‘dega in a pack of about 25 cars.
Smoke errupted from the #88 of Dale Earnhardt jr. Looks like an engine swap [...]
Ok, ok, yeah, I know!! Name’s on the door, and yet I’ve been a no-show around here lately, and I’m terribly sorry about that … lotsa’ good reasons, but not ONE excuse worthy of you OR Grump for his tireless work around this rather emptier ‘office’ lately. All I can say with true sincerity here [...]
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The recent passing of my friend has ushered in a short period of time where I have experienced much joy. That may sound wrong, so let me explain.
Grumpy is a ‘Car Guy’. Car guys have their own language. We can talk to each other in a form of communication that baffles the ordinary run of [...]
This weekend, the NHRA will stage its first event in the new $60 million facility built at Lowe’s Motorspeedway in Concord, N.C.
Called the CAROLINA NATIONALS, the inagural event kicks off with qualifying rounds beginning Friday.
The new track has 4 lanes for competition, a first of its kind. For this event, only two lanes will be [...]
Grumpy’s note: I was doing some research today in order to put up another story about the quest for speed records at the historic Bonneville Salt Falts in Utah’s west desert.
The race vehicle pictured is from a collection of photos taken during Speed Weeks and has no connection to this story.
The vast surface of the [...]
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