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09/03/10 - NHRA Dragster Insider
NHRA Dragster Insider: More Fan Fotos: The best of the Midwest
More Fan Fotos: The best of the Midwest   Welcome to another installment of Fan Fotos, galleries of great memories hauled from shoeboxes and dusty photo albums to share with your pals here at the Insider. This is always a real treat for me as [...]
05/03/10 - NHRA Dragster Insider
NHRA Dragster Insider: A salute to the March Meet
A salute to the March Meet   This weekend, the eyes of the drag racing world once again fall on Bakersfield, Calif., for the continuation of the rebirth of the fabled March Meet. This year, the event celebrates its 52nd birthday, [...]
01/03/10 - NHRA Dragster Insider
NHRA Dragster Insider: Miscellaneous musings on a manic Monday
Miscellaneous musings on a manic Monday   Seeing Team USA take the four-man bobsled gold has to be my favorite post-Miracle on Ice Olympics moment. ... Potbellied USA-1 driver Steve Holcomb, far right, may be the best everyman [...]
26/02/10 - NHRA Dragster Insider
NHRA Dragster Insider: Your heroes, Part 2
Your heroes, Part 2   Great American humorist Will Rogers once wrote, "We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by." That would be me, clapping on the curb to a parade of [...]
24/02/10 - NHRA Dragster Insider
NHRA Dragster Insider: More fantastic followup
More fantastic followup   It's been a busy two weeks with Pomona and Phoenix back to back, especially with Phoenix's drawn-out semi-conclusion. Don’t cry for me, Argentina, but it's going to be another busy week as we [...]
24/02/10 - NHRA Dragster Insider
NHRA Dragster Insider: More fantastic follow-up
More fantastic follow-up   It has been a busy two weeks with Pomona and Phoenix back to back, especially with Phoenix's drawn-out semi-conclusion. Don’t cry for me, Argentina, but it's going to be another busy week as we [...]
19/02/10 - NHRA Dragster Insider
NHRA Dragster Insider: Feedback, follow-up, and fallen friends
Feedback, follow-up, and fallen friends   Jan. 18, 1961, at Golden Triangle strip in Florida, according to the caption Welcome back, my friends, to the nostalgia that never ends, at least [...]
 
16/02/10 - NHRA Dragster Insider
NHRA Dragster Insider: 25 more memorable Winternationals moments (2010 version)
25 more memorable Winternationals moments (2010 version)   Having been charged with the creation and infrastructure of the Winternationals Memorable Moments program, I breathed a heavy sigh of relief after turning loose the final stories on [...]
11/02/10 - NHRA Dragster Insider
NHRA Dragster Insider: Keeping it in the family
Keeping it in the family   Racers love competing at the Kragen O'Reilly NHRA Winternationals presented by Valvoline for a lot of reasons. Eastern-based competitors love to head to SoCal for sun and fun. And the facility is [...]
09/02/10 - NHRA Dragster Insider
NHRA Dragster Insider: Your Heroes, Part 1
Your Heroes, Part 1   Way back in early January, I asked the readers of this column to submit their list of racing heroes. (You thought I'd forgotten, didn't you?) Response to my request was a bit overwhelming, so I'm [...]
05/02/10 - NHRA Dragster Insider
NHRA Dragster Insider: Fan fotos: SoCal doorslammers
Fan fotos: SoCal doorslammers   Long before there were nitro Funny Cars and even what we know as Top Fuel dragsters, door cars and roadsters often attracted the same fanatic love to which we now assign the nitro cars. I know that I [...]
03/02/10 - NHRA Dragster Insider
NHRA Dragster Insider: This and that ...
This and that ...   First things first: I'd like to welcome World Products aboard as the presenting sponsor of DRAGSTER Insider. Bill Mitchell, whose name should be familiar to anyone who has been around drag [...]
28/01/10 - NHRA Dragster Insider
NHRA Dragster Insider: More show-and-tell
More show-and-tell   I'll be in our Top 10 rumble -- er, I mean meeting – today as I and my fellow National DRAGSTER staffers match wits, expertise, and debating skills lobbying for our individual Top 10 favorites [...]
26/01/10 - NHRA Dragster Insider
NHRA Dragster Insider: All Winternationals, all the time
All Winternationals, all the time   Man, look at the calendar. The Kragen O'Reilly NHRA Winternationals presented by Valvoline is only two weeks and two days away, which probably explains why I'm too busy with all of the assorted [...]
22/01/10 - NHRA Dragster Insider
NHRA Dragster Insider: Help us pick the all-time Top 10 lists
Help us pick the all-time Top 10 lists   The first two issues of National DRAGSTER 2010 are out the door, and we're knee-deep in preview stuff for the 50th annual Kragen O'Reilly NHRA Winternationals presented by Valvoline and [...]
20/01/10 - NHRA Dragster Insider
NHRA Dragster Insider: Feedback (and rain) by the bucketful
Feedback (and rain) by the bucketful   Reactions to Monday's column about Russell Long and yesterday's about Dick Wells came by the bucketful, kind of like the rain we're getting here this week in SoCal. We're getting [...]
19/01/10 - NHRA Dragster Insider
NHRA Dragster Insider: Thanks for the memories, Dick
Thanks for the memories, Dick   A few years ago, Dick Wells sent me this great photo of him, left, with DRAGSTER's first photo editor, the late Rich Joy, standing next to a nice sedan delivery with DRAGSTER signage. Wells [...]
 
18/01/10 - NHRA Dragster Insider
NHRA Dragster Insider: It's a Long story ...
It's a Long story ...   Former Funny Car racer Russell Long  with orphans in Haiti "240 Gordie" Bonin and others tipped me off to a great story about former nitro Funny Car racer [...]
14/01/10 - NHRA Dragster Insider
NHRA Dragster Insider: Sledding and sliding, part 1
Sledding and sliding, part 1   You asked for it, so here it is. My trip last weekend to the Bodine Bobsled Challenge was one of those dream getaways we all fantasize about having but never get. It was filled with excitement and [...]
13/01/10 - NHRA Dragster Insider
NHRA Dragster Insider: Of sledding and 'the Snake'
Of sledding and 'the Snake'   Wow, sorry about the long pause in posting anything here. As you know, I spent the weekend in Lake Placid, N.Y., at the annual Lucas Oil Geoff Bodine Bobsled Challenge and traveled back [...]
06/01/10 - NHRA Dragster Insider
NHRA Dragster Insider: Hot stories and cool trips
Hot stories and cool trips   The National DRAGSTER staff engine is at full song today as we finally have everyone back in the office from numerous holiday vacations and illnesses (seems like a good percentage of the staff has a [...]
05/01/10 - NHRA Dragster Insider
NHRA Dragster Insider: Your heroes
Your heroes   Shirley, Glidden, Garlits. Force, Jenkins, Prudhomme .... heroes and legends. If you thought the Insider's Favorite Race Car Ever poll of 2008 was something else, well, here's [...]
04/01/10 - NHRA Dragster Insider
NHRA Dragster Insider: Memorable Moments
Memorable Moments   Welcome to the first Insider entry of the new format. I thank you all for your understanding and encouragement following my New Year's Day announcement of a shift in format. I think the best way for [...]
01/01/10 - NHRA Dragster Insider
NHRA Dragster Insider: Charting a bit of a new course
Charting a bit of a new course   Back in April, as part of our annual April Fools' shenanigans on NHRA.com, I wrote a column here called "The Insider … out," reporting that I was closing up the Insider [...]
30/12/09 - NHRA Dragster Insider
NHRA Dragster Insider: A golden time of year
A golden time of year   The holidays are supposed to offer a little "slow down" time but I can’t help but feel I'm still going a million miles per hour. A lot of the NHRA staff has taken great advantage of [...]
25/12/09 - NHRA Dragster Insider
NHRA Dragster Insider: Some Christmas wishes
Some Christmas wishes   Merry Christmas to the Insider Nation! In the spirit of the season, I worked with National DRAGSTER staff to create the list below (which also appears in ND's year-end issue, in my Staging Light [...]
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