While NASCAR tries desperately to characterize Danica Patrick as the best female driver in modern-day stock car racing, Ashley Force Hood is trying just as hard to escape such labeling in an NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series that moves this week to Gainesville Raceway for the 41st renewal of the Tire Kingdom Gatornationals.
Although she has been remarkably successful in her first three pro seasons, earning 2007 Rookie-of-the-Year honors, becoming the first woman to win an NHRA Funny Car event as well as the first to drive a Funny Car to victory in the Mac Tools U.S. Nationals, Force Hood even now is reluctant to fully embrace her female celebrity … Details
Every year you try to find what you lacked the year before that kept you from winning the championship and then try to improve on it. And, to be bluntly honest, I don’t see a lot of areas that the NAPA Auto Parts Dodge team needs to work on for the 2010 NHRA Full Throttle Series.
We were there to win a championship in 2009 and we came close. If we can keep doing what we were doing and stay aggressive in 2010, that will be the main key to achieving success. Of course, we have … Details
Angelle Sampey, who is the winningest female in professional motorsports history, is hanging up her helmet and leathers as she has announced her retirement as a professional drag racer.
Sampey, who totaled 41 victories during a 13-year NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle career, said she’s planning to pursue other career opportunities while looking to start a family with her fiance, Seth Drago.
“I’m ready for a new challenge, including … Details
Whoever first thought of dressing up a belt sander, say, in a Batmobile costume, and whizzing it down a wooden chute would have been quite pleased at The Ranch on Saturday.The idea has taken hold globally — yes, there is an International Belt Sander Drag Racing Association — and most recently at the Home Builders Association of Northern Colorado’s Home and Remodel Show at the Thomas M. McKee 4-H Building.
“We’re crazy,†said Linda Gabrielson … Details & Pictures