SPORTSMAN RACERS MOVIN' ON UP
Read (Jok's) editorial about the parking problems/high buck tow rigs. I have been going to the annual NHRA race at Englishtown for 20 years. We always park at the airport so I get to walk through the sportsman pits to get to the grandstands. Every year the quality of the sportsman tow rigs has escalated, but this year it totally blew me away!

I remarked to my friends that the sportsman racers are always crying to NHRA for bigger payouts, but if any NHRA officials walk through the pits and see the support vehicles these guys are running, they will CUT purses!

Yours is the first article printed on the subject I have read.

Thanx much,
Paul Wentworth

COME BACK, SHANE (ER…RAFFA)
When Is John Raffa going to write his (monthly) editorial? It is going on 2 months!!!!!!

Richard Davis

Since taking a real job as the PR flak for Norwalk Raceway Park, John has been pretty busy doing that instead of writing for the pittance that DRO can afford to pay, but he has promised a new column for our first anniversary issue in Sept. We'll just have to wait and see. -Jeff Burk

ASK THE LOADED QUESTION-ER
In the history of Drag Racing, what is the fastest quarter ever run both in MPH/seconds?
Thanks,
Perry

To our knowledge the quickest and fastest pass in drag racing history was recorded in England by "Slammin'" Sammy Miller driving the Vanishing Point Mustang in 1994. The speed and ET were 3.583/386.26. -Chris Martin

NOBODY'S LAUGHING
WHY do the NHRA inspectors check all fuel cars from the injectors EXCEPT Force's cars? They check the fuel % on Force's cars from the tank instead of the injectors fuel line.

I would hope that nothing funny IS GOING ON IN FUNNY CAR.

Doug Bezaire

The fact is that fuel checks are done both from the tank and from the line going to the injector. I have personally watched the NHRA tech guys check at both locations on many teams' cars.

I would tell you that with Ray Alley supervising the fuel cars they aren't going to get away with doing anything "funny." Like his counterpart at NASCAR, there probably isn't anything that a fuel team can try that Alley hasn't tried already! - JB

HERE'S A NASCAR WINNER
I won my class at the 1966 NASCAR Winternationals at Deland, Florida in my old Anglia gasser. I still have the plaque on my brag wall just because it is so rare. I thought NASCAR was going to be the organization to get drag racing really rolling here on the East Coast. What a surprise it was to be over almost before it started.

It was good to read some about the NASCAR days. Thanks!

Sincerely yours,
Robert Burbick

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