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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