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WORST RACE-SITE TOWN

Dinwiddie, Virginia Motorsports Park. You can't get there from here. (JB)

Brainerd, Minnesota is winner by word of mouth. If any town would openly petition for open season on gearheads, it's Brainerd. (JL)

Baytown, Texas. (RL)

Red River Raceway in Louisiana and whatever the name of that town is. Ain't nothing to do; nobody lives there. The mayor is a water moccasin. (CM)

BEST ADMINISTRATIVE MOVE

NHRA's quick decision to bring Pro Mods in with a five-race exhibition schedule for 2001. Honorable Mention goes to NHRA's hiring of Ray Alley. (JB)

Ok, they lost their ABC outlet, but at least we will be able to find NHRA's events on TV in 2001, thanks to NHRA's new TV deal with ESPN (JL)

Gotta go with my former employers. The NHRA 75-minute rule between rounds does exact a hardship, but it appeared to work from the get-go. (CM)

WORST ADMINISTRATIVE MOVE

IHRA's caving in to racers' demands to change Pro Mod rules weekly. A close second: NHRA's segregation of Deadline Press and non-Deadline Press representatives. (JB)

Anything IHRA did, for any reason, no matter what excuse they gave at any given moment. (JL)

NHRA hiring Integer One as the agency of record. Honorable mentions to NHRA for letting Matt Blaty get away; banning photographers from wearing shorts; and having parachutists land with the American flag at the Winston Finals. After what happened last year, I think it was in poor taste to have the flag brought in that way. (RL)

1. IHRA's hit on the Pro Mod blower cars.
2. NHRA's oildown fine. (CM)

BEST PUBLICATION

Inside Motorsports for its no-B.S. drag racing reporting. (JB)

Oh come on now, ya don't think we aren't gonna vote for ourselves? Everybody else is these days. (JL)

After DRO…Nitronic Research. (RL)

Scott Cochran's Drag Racer magazine has typos and occasional editorial gaffs, but one thing I really dig about the book is that it's pretty. It looks great. The layouts, the color quality (from what I've heard; I'm colorblind), you name it. It's a coffee table book in magazine format. (CM)

BEST CRASH

The ones that could have happened but didn't. (JB)

No doubt, the Scotty C/Frankie P dustup at Pomona. NFL Films got nothin' on that one! (JL)

There is no such thing. (RL)

The Speed Sport roadster just after a burnout blower explosion.

Driver Rex Stevens Jr. soon bailed out and the wedge-shaped charger went on down track without him. Mike Garland photo. Rex Stevens Jr.'s Speed Sport roadster at the World Series. Never seen anything like it ... a driverless race car on the top end and the driver at the starting line. Move over, David Copperfield. (CM)

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