A beat-up old khaki Hummer with no top stopped at a light in downtown Orlando and Tom Hammonds pointed at it.
“I’d race that if I could,” Hammonds said, laughing, as we sat having lunch and chatting about his roots in drag racing.
It all started with the most dangerous kind. Street racing in his hometown of Crestview. He even raced in his mother’s station wagon…Â Details
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The 40th Gatornationals are underway today at Gainesville Raceway, and it provides the perfect opportunity for the NHRA — that’s the National Hot Rod Association for the drag racing impaired — to seize some national attention.
I’m not the biggest drag-racing buff this side of the Mississippi, but I’ve always found it enjoyable to feel the rumble in your chest created by the Top Fuel and Funny Car classes…Â
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Brian Wolfe has learned to live with less and, hopefully, make it work.
The director of Ford’s North American motorsports program since the middle of 2008 came from the company’s power train unit, where he says budget and personnel cuts were a way of life long before the economy began crashing down around everyone’s heads.
“There’s no easy jobs at the OEMs (original equipment manufacturers),†Wolfe said Thursday in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. “I’ve been at Ford for 27 years now in a variety of leadership positions and you learn to focus on what’s really critical to be successful.
“And being successful means I have to have a winning platform and championship capable teams and I have … Details
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When budding NHRA star Eric Medlen was fatally injured two years ago it was seen as a tragic but isolated accident in a risky profession.
Then drag racing received another blow: the death of veteran Scott Kalitta in a crash last June.
That served as “a wake-up call,” said 14-time NHRA Funny Car champion John Force, who owned Medlen’s car.
“Even a few months after Eric, I was thinking maybe everybody was right and it was a one-time fluke,” Force said in a recent interview. “Then, Scott was killed. We saw …Â details
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