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It's Motorplex Mania
or Texas Trivia, take your pick.
The first person to email us with the three correct answers wins a t-shirt! Good luck. 1) Name the three Top Fuel non-qualifiers at the historic 1988 IHRA Texas Nationals. Hint: One of them crashed.Driver 1? Driver 2? Driver 3?
2) Who was in the other lane when Eddie Hill ran the 4.990 at the above race? Who? 3) . According to the promo flack that fluttered around the opening of the Texas Motorplex, it cost how much to build?Cost? BONUS QUESTION (a correct answer here can make up for an incorrect one above) When Funny Car driver Ray Higley did his famous eighth-mile leapfrog (the car went airborne for about the last 200 yards) at the 1997 Lone Star Nationals, who was in the other lane?Who?
full name: email address: Congratulations to Lyle Greenberg, the winner of last month's trivia contest. With our t-shirt, he can now prove he's got a "different perspective." Last month's Indy Trivia (or what Lyle knew and you didn't):1) At roughly 1 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 3, 1983, this Funny Car racer ran a 5.97/236.22 to create the first all 5-second U.S. Nationals Funny Car field. Who was the driver and what was the car (nickname, make)? Tip: this car did not make the field (final 16) Answer: Norm Day's "Magnum Force" Dodge Challenger 2) In the history of Indy nitro finals, only once did both racers run identical e.t.'s to the thousandth. Who, what class, when? Answer: Richard Tharp ran 6.114 to get the Top Fuel win over John Wiebe's 6.114 [red-light] in 1976 3) Who ran the first 4-second Indy pass? Answer: Dick LaHaie at 4.983 in 1989
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