Go2geiger.com reports that Mike Ashley Racing’s NHRA Top Fuel operation has been sold in its entirety to Don Schumacher Racing. The sale includes the Matco Tools Top Fuel dragster driven by Antron Brown, who drove a Pro Stock Motorcycle for DSR before switching to Top Fuel with Ashley.
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The sound of high-powered, unmuffled racing engines roaring down the drag strip broke the stillness early Saturday morning at Auto Club Famoso Raceway.
Day 2 of the NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion was commencing. Crowds were slowly filtering into the adjacent pit area and it wasn’t long before two icons of the sport — “Big Daddy” Don Garlits and Don “the Snake” Purdhomme — began to draw crowds…Â Details
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Funny Cars and Top Fuel dragsters both gulp $30-a-gallon nitromethane, both breathe fire, and both reach 260mph in two and half seconds and 300 in less than four seconds. But they’re completely different beasts, of course, from the way they accelerate to their engine position to their vehicle weight to how they’re driven.
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Final eliminations Monday from the O’Reilly NHRA Mid-South Nationals for the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series at Memphis Motorsports Park:
Final-round results
Top Fuel— Morgan Lucas, 5.133 seconds, 251.44 mph, def. Tony Schumacher, 8.216 seconds, 75.19 mph.
Funny Car— Jeff Arend, Toyota Solara, 4.091, 310.41, def. Tony Pedregon, Chevy Impala, 16.659, 37.81.
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