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| The Nitro Fish Funny Car of Johnny Gray debuted
a new paint job at Pomona. It didn't help, though, as the car just
missed being in the 16-car field by .008-seconds. |
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| Racing legend Roland Leong (right) made his
first appearance in the livery of Chuck Etchell's team. |
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| San Diego racer Chuck Beal sported the Drag
Racing Online name at Pomona. With our name on his windshield, he
even reads DRO when he's driving. |
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| All the work in the pits paid off for the
Coughlin team as Jeg took a close one for the win. |
The biggest loser, however, may have been the common fan hisself, who
was deprived of two booked-in sessions of rip-roarin', ricocheting AA/Fuel
Altereds, at one time the most gonzo and sphincter-puckering spectacle
in the sport and whose participation has al but disappeared from the
pavement. Their appearance was curiously mothballed at Pomona, despite
a live television-regimented schedule that was nearly a quarter hour
ahead of schedule.
It could be argued that this was the NHRA's biggest foul-up and transgression
to the sport's roots since the recent bowdlerization of three-time Top
Fuel champion Don Garlits, whose exploits and biographical information
were shunned by the NHRA in their 50th Anniversary coffee table, "Life
in the Fast Lane."
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