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1967 NHRA Winternationals
The 1967 NHRA Winternationals (commonly known as the Winternats) were a National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) drag racing event, held at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona, Auto Club Raceway, Pomona, California on 5 February. Events ''More Aggravation III'' took home both the AA/CD (Supercharging, supercharged A Competition Dragster) trophy and "Best Appearing Car" award. Results Top Fuel Top Fuel hosted a field of eight. Round One In round one, Jim Bollinger lost do Danny Ongais. Dave Beebe was defeated by Gene Goleman. Connie Kalitta, Conrad "Connie" Kalitta eliminated Mike Snively. Jerry Ruth fell to Pete Robinson (drag racer), "Sneaky Pete" Robinson. Ultimateracinghistory (retrieved 18 November 2018) Round Two In the semi-final, Ongais lost to Goleman and Robinson was ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Hot Rod Association
The National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) is a drag racing governing body, which sets rules in drag racing and hosts events all over the United States and Canada. With over 40,000 drivers in its rosters, the NHRA claims to be the largest motorsports sanctioning body in the world. The association was founded by Wally Parks in 1951 in California to provide a governing body to organize and promote the sport of drag racing. NHRA's first Nationals was held in 1955, in Great Bend, Kansas. The NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series, the national event series which comprises 24 races each year, is the premier series in drag racing that brings together the best drag racers from across North America and the world. The NHRA U.S. Nationals are now held at Lucas Oil Raceway in Brownsburg, Indiana and are officially called the U.S. Nationals. Winners of national events are awarded a trophy statue in honor of founder Wally Parks. The trophy is commonly referred to by its nickname, “Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Snively
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1967 In Motorsport
The following is an overview of the events of 1967 in motorsport including the major racing events, motorsport venues that were opened and closed during a year, championships and non-championship events that were established and disestablished in a year, and births and deaths of racing drivers and other motorsport people. Annual events The calendar includes only annual major non-championship events or annual events that had own significance separate from the championship. For the dates of the championship events see related season articles. Established championships/events Births Deaths See also * List of 1967 motorsport champions References External links {{DEFAULTSORT:1967 In Motorsport Motorsport by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Collett
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Kelly Brown (drag Racer)
Kelly Brown (born 8 June 1982) is a Scottish rugby union coach and former player. He won 64 caps for the Scotland national team, and played club rugby for Glasgow Warriors, Border Reivers and Saracens as a flanker. He retired from playing in 2017 to become a coach with Saracens' academy. Brown moved to an Assistant Coach position at Glasgow Warriors in 2020 before returning to Saracens in 2021. Early life Brown was born on 8 June 1982 in Edinburgh, and grew up in Melrose in the Scottish Borders, attending Earlston High School . Club career Brown played professionally for Border Reivers until the end of the 2006–07 season, when the club was disbanded. After that he played for the Glasgow Warriors. On 19 January 2010, it was confirmed that Brown had signed a deal with Rugby Premiership club Saracens. He started as Saracens won their first Premiership title in 2011. He retired in 2017. International career Brown made his debut for the Scottish national side on 5 June 2005 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Top Gas
Top Gas (T/G) is a former NHRA drag racing professional class. Analogous to Top Fuel, Top Gas was a pro class, and allowed dragsters (T/GD) as well as bodied cars. Several noteworthy cars ran in Top Gas. One of the early streamliners, ''Scuderia'', made her debut at the 1963 NHRA Winternationals at Pomona, California, recording a best pass of 8.83 seconds at . At Arlington later that year, ''Scuderia'' set a Top Gas record (average of two passes) of . Like Top Fuel, Top Gas dragsters experimented with twin engines, including ''Freight Train'' and the Motes & Peters digger. It also saw a number of streamliners, including ''Sidewinder III'' (in BB/GD) and ''Scuderia''. Driver Ray Motes and owner R. C. Williams, based in Russell, Kansas Russell is the most populous city in and the county seat of Russell County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 4,401. History In 1865, the Butterfield Overland Despatch established a short-l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winged Express (Altered)
''Winged Express'' is a supercharged A Fuel Altered (AA/FA). On 28 September 1967, it was the first Altered to exceed . History ''Winged Express'' was built in 1960 by driver William "Wild Willie" Borsch and partner Al Marcellus, assisted by Howard Johansen ( Howard's Cams), Don Reynolds, Phil Johnson, Dale Young, and Jerry Hyatt. The car's 392 hemi was built by Jim Harrell (of Jim's Auto Parts). The body, donated by Curt Hamilton, was the first Cal Automotive fiberglass 1923 Model T used on an Altered. When completed, the car had a simple hoop rollbar and narrow slicks, with the engine tilted upward to aid traction, and was missing the rollbar-mounted wing that later became its trademark. The car was first entered in NHRA's A/Roadster class, at Riverside in 1960, where it set an A/R class record of 10.28 at . Borsch raced ''Winged Express'' for ten years, winning AA/FA at the NHRA Winternationals in 1967 and 1968. Since AA/FA was not recognized as a class by NHRA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willie Borsch
Willie Borsch (February 19, 1930 – October 1, 1991), nicknamed "Wild Willie", was an American AA/FA and funny car drag racer. History Borsch started racing in Altereds in 1960 with ''Winged Express'', built by Borsch and partner Al "Mousie" Marcellus, assisted by Howard Johansen (of Howard's Cams), Don Reynolds, Phil Johnson, Dale Young, and Jerry Hyatt. The car's 392 hemi was built by Jim Harrell (of Jim's Auto Parts). He raced ''Winged Express'' for ten years, winning AA/FA ( supercharged A-category Fuel Altered) at the NHRA Winternationals in 1967 and 1968. Since AA/FA was not recognized as a class by the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) until 1967, Borsch was never credited with a national title. On 28 September 1967 at Irwindale, Borsch turned in the first pass in an Altered, at 7.91 seconds and . Borsch qualified for the 1968 NHRA Winternationals, a 32-car field in Top Fuel, setting an AA/FA record elapsed time of 7.29 seconds. The rest of the field ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altered (drag Racing)
Altered is a former National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) drag racing class and a current drag racing chassis configuration that forms the basis of many classes of NHRA Competition Eliminator. The altered is " metimes called the poor man's agster".McClurg, Bob. ''Diggers, Funnies, Gassers and Altereds: Drag Racing's Golden Age''. (CarTech Inc, 2013), p. 44. While the emblematic altered is a short-wheelbase roadster with exposed engine and front frame rails, very similar to the earliest rail dragsters, altereds can be bodied cars also. By definition, altereds were essentially stock gas, alcohol, or nitromethane-class cars with parts removed or changed, making them ineligible for the previous class, such as Keith Ferrell's ''Dogcatcher'', a 1936 Willys sedan delivery; built as a gasser, Ferrell deliberately left something off to run it in B/Altered. History The Altered category originated "for cars with moderate changes", according to the rulebook. It developed from out of the Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Robinson (drag Racer)
Lew Russell Robinson (June 2, 1933 – February 6, 1971), nicknamed "Sneaky Pete", was an American drag racer. Biography Robinson was born in Atlanta, Georgia. Robinson was born Lew Russell Robinson but is best known as Pete or "Sneaky Pete". Pete is the son of Olaf Robinson brother to Lowell Galen Robinson or "LG". Olaf had two sons Torch and Pete Robinson. Pete married wife Sandra Robinson on October,27th 1962, at the family home in Fitzgerald. They lived in Atlanta where Pete owned Pete's Engineering Company and raced NHRA top fuel dragsters. Pete's wife traveled with him to the races, and helped her husband run his business until his death. Career Gassers He started drag racing in 1950, at the wheel of a Buick-engined B/Gas 1940 Ford, which he continued to campaign until 1961. Dragsters Robinson purchased his first slingshot rail from a wealthy friend, who was unable to persuade his father it was merely a go kart. Robinson, obsessive about lightening his cars ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Ruth
Jerry (The King) Ruth is a former professional drag racer who raced in the "golden age of drag racing" in the 1960s and 1970s. He was known as drag racing's "King of the Northwest". Racing career Ruth began his career at young age. He raced several kinds of gas-powered coups and sedans in the late 1950s and early 60's along with his brother John. In early 1963 he purchased Chevy gas-powered dragster from the Bier brothers of southern California and after racing in the A/GD gasoline classes, he started experimenting with nitro-fueled dragsters later that year. He began building several cars and amassed various wins and track records. Ruth captured the NHRA Division 6 title five years from 1964–69 and began referring to himself as "The King". He quickly made a name for himself and in 1971 set a Top Fuel elapsed time of 6.43 seconds -tied for the quickest in history at the time, in his Don Long Mustang Funny Car which he built himself. In 1972 Ruth sold his self-made car and adopte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Connie Kalitta
Conrad "Connie" Kalitta (born February 24, 1938) is an American businessman and former drag racing driver, nicknamed "The Bounty Hunter". Kalitta is the CEO of Kalitta Air and the owner of Kalitta Motorsports.Kalitta Motorsports - About Connie Kalitta Retrieved 2016-05-07 Kalitta was born in , grew up in Mount Clemens, and was a 1957 graduate of . He raced from the 1950s through the 1990s. He was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
