“If NHRA wants to keep the fans coming and the sport going and the people in the seats then they don’t need to go too far
backwards with everything – especially when it comes to pushing the performance envelope with these cars.” - MATT HAGAN
MOVERS & SHAKERS
SUITING UP
The Kevin Mullins, as he is
lovingly known by his drag
radial racing cohorts, grabs
a comfy seat on the asphalt in the staging lanes
of Huntssville Dragway
before bolting himself into
his gnarly three-second,
200mph-capable outlaw
drag radial Mustang.
Super Sonny
Sonny Freeland is well known for owning and racing Super Sport model cars of the Camaro and Chevelle variety.
He developed such a distinction for “SS” cars, in fact,
his friends eventually nicknamed him “Super Sonny.” He
recently lived up to his name on the track as well when
the Hollywood, Florida, resident won three races in one
day at the season opener at Palm Beach International
Raceway. Sonny won a pair of Box class races, then captured the win in No Box, then amazingly went 5 rounds
in Top Eliminator, all in the same day while driving his
trusty SS Camaro.
CAROLINA KID
Travis Harvey, a.k.a.
“The Carolina Kid”, is
as cool as a cucumber between rounds
of racing his Pro
Nitrous Camaro at
the PDRA Summer
Drags in Michigan.
All Charged Up
Ashley Tidrick made headlines at Bradenton Motorsports Park recently during the Snowbirds Outlaw Nationals. The Kentucky native wowed the crowd in the
final qualifying session while driving her boyfriend,
Andrew Johnson’s, ProCharged dragster. In her very
first outing with the car, Ashley ripped off a record
run of 3.63 at 199mph – the quickest-and-fastest pass
ever recorded by a ProCharger-equipped vehicle.
GLAMOUR GIRLS The wonderful women of the Ohio Outlaw AA/Gassers – a nostalgia match racing group that
tours the East Coast – pose for a photo during the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals in Norwalk. This
group of wives and women are as much a part of the show as the period-correct, supercharged Gassers their
significant others race – always ready to back them into the groove after a long, smoky burnout and guide
them into the staging beams before a wall-to-wall pass down the drag strip.
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