WILSON NHRA PRO STOCK CAREER BEGINS

Defending IHRA Pro Stock World Champ and freshman NHRA Pro Stock racer Gene Wilson, son of master fisherman and outdoor leading man Orlando Wilson, finally broke into the qualifying ranks at Bristol. It seems only fitting to the Agent that the budding super star of Pro Stock would qualify for his first race at a track that for years was the headquarters and hometrack for the International Hot Rod Association. (photo by Jeff Burk) [5-1-2002]

ANGELLE AND THE DALLAS COWBOYS?

The big sports story on the Dallas/Ft.Worth TV stations is that Jerry Jones, owner of the Dallas Cowboys, is starting a NASCAR team and that he wants Tony Stewart to drive. The Agent wonders if maybe the rumored new sponsor for Angelle Savoie, which is supposed to be announced at Atlanta, could be the same Jerry Jones. Stranger things have happened. The Agent is just making a wild guess at this possibility. (file photo by Jeff Burk) [5-1-2002]

RICHARDSON, FUQUA, SZERLEG TEAM UP

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Agent 1320 has learned that bracket greats Scotty Richardson of Goodlettsville, Tennessee, Mike Fuqua of Hendersonville, Tennessee and Dave Szerleg of Livonia, Michigan have teamed up for a three- or four-dragster assault at "big money" Southern bracket races. The three-man team will share four dragsters and will hit chosen races from Alabama to Tennessee to Kentucky throughout the spring and possibly summer. All three are national, divisional, IHRA and NHRA class and bracket winners, and they will be touring the South and Northeast in Szerleg's four-car travel hauler. The three racers will share four Worthy-built dragsters owned by Fuqua. According to Richardson, they may pursue the big-money bracket races through the rest of the year. [5-1-2002]