Drag Racing Online - Departments: Quiz Vol. IV No. 2 February 2002

by Chris Martin

THE LOADED QUESTION-er RETURNS

We had a substitute Questioner last month who made it much too easy for you to get the correct answers. (Like, the first entry was the winner.) So now it's back to the regular Quiz Master. Get out those thinking caps once again, boys and girls!

It's the start of a new racing season and what a year it promises to be. Usually the first race is in January but this year it got bumped to February. This quiz deals largely with the first month of the year queries.

1. A year-opening NHRA Grand Premiere used to be held on the first weekend of January. The first one was in 1972 at Lions and it produced an historic Top Fuel final where both drivers ran sport's best 6.17s, an unprecedented accomplishment. The finalists were:

A. Don Garlits/Don Moody
B. Don Prudhomme/John Wiebe
C. John Stewart/Don Garlits
D. Carl Olson/Dennis Baca
E. James Warren/Gary Ritter

2. The winner of Top Fuel at the 1976 NHRA Grand Premiere at Irwindale was Chevy-powered driver:

A. Jim Bucher
B. Wilton-Doss-Bob Brooks
C. Rance McDaniel
D. Stan Shiroma
E. Dave Uyehara

3. Don Garlits debuted his first rear-engine Top Fuel car at the 1971 AHRA Grand Premiere at Lions and took runner-up honors to Gary Cochran. Who set Low E.T. at a whopping 6.50?

A. Pete Robinson
B. Garlits
C. Jim Nicoll
D. Jim Paoli
E. Larry Bowers-Kenny Safford

4. The first 220-mph Funny Car run was turned at the Orange County Int'l
Raceway All-Pro Series event in 1971. The driver was:

A. Don Prudhomme
B. Pat Foster
C. Rich Siroonian
D. Gene Snow
E. Don Schumacher

5. Match the personality with the birthdate:

A. Don Garlits
B. Richard Tharp
C. Gary Beck
D. Buster Couch
E. Dick LaHaie

Jan. 8
Jan. 13
Jan. 21
Jan. 14
Jan. 28

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