1001 Drag Racing Facts

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Doug Boyce. 1001 Drag Racing Facts

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85 Downey, California’s Steve Carbone became the first T/F driver to win both the AHRA and NHRA championships in the same season when he accomplished the feat in 1969. He took the NHRA crown driving Larry Huff’s Soapy Sales Fueler by defeating Dave Chenevert and repeated a week later driving the Creitz-Donovan rail to AHRA victory over Preston Davis.

86 Lasting memories are sometimes made of incidents you’d just as soon forget. Take this Joe Medina story for instance. Joe was a crewman for Jim Dunn in 1969 and was lending a hand, backing up Dunn’s rainbow rail during a matchup against Leland Kolb at Orange County. After the warmup burnouts, crewmen had to push or pull the cars back to the line. Well, poor ol’ Joe must have lost his footing because he fell under the right slick and was promptly run over by the boss. As told in an interview with Drag News, Dunn thought he had lost a wheel or run over the lights. Outside of a bruised ego, Joe was okay. Dunn was noted to say, “We gave him a beer to cure the pain.”

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