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THE LOADED QUESTION-er
by Chris Martin I heard about it. No one won last month’s valuable prize, which in case, you forgot was the Drag Racing Online budget crusher for 1999. Both Jeff and I really thought that someone out there might like a month’s long, all-expenses paid trip to the Grand Cayman Islands and a new Rolls Royce Corniche waiting on the tarmac when they returned. Okay, a bit glitzy, so we’ll scale ‘er down a smidge. Instead, how about a lifetime subscription to Drag Racing Online and a free beer if you run into one of we staffers on the road. Comprendes? 1) Who was in the other lane when Don Nicholson ran the first seven-second Funny Car time (7.96) at Martin, Michigan in September 1966? Who? 2) Who set low e.t. at the 1966 Super Stock Nationals in Center Moriches, Long Island, N.Y. and what was it? Who? 3) This great pro racer dipped down into Modified Eliminator at the 1972 Gatornationals and took runner-up to Dennis Grove’s "NED Bug" Volkswagen. Who was he and what kind of car? Who?
full name: email address: Oh, by the way here are the answers to last month’s trivia questions. Live and learn:1) Name the three Top Fuel non-qualifiers at the historic 1988 IHRA Texas Nationals. Hint: one of them crashed. Answer: Michael Brotherton, Rudy Toepke and Randy Meyer 2) Who was in the other lane when Eddie Hill ran the 4.990 at the above race? Answer: Gene Snow 3) According to the promo flack that fluttered around the opening of the Texas Motorplex, it cost how much to build? Answer: $6.5 million (source: National Dragster, Oct. 10, 1986) Bonus Question When Funny Car drive 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? Answer: John Force
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