Phil burgess nhra driver

The vehicle must meet basic safety criteria outlined in this rulebook. Nhra national dragster editor phil burgess talks about whats. Nhra national dragster editor phil burgess has authored more than 700 articles covering legends of the sport, trends, cars, events, and remembrances that can be found in the dragster insider. As a driver here for the team r2b2 racing i was told the funny car operation is going to be shutdown as of friday jan.

Brittany force and tim wilkerson discuss the start of the 2017 nhra mello yello series season on wfo. Shirley muldowney born june 19, 1940, also known professionally as cha cha and the first lady of drag racing, is an american auto racer. Nhras phil burgess asked justin about his new car, the influencer this past weekend in charlotte and. Phils professional drag racing career includes driving for rex nix, paul gratton in the nitro fish funny car, bill blomgren, paul smith. Nhras phil burgess wrote an excellent article in august 2016. Phil burgess 05102016 may, 2016 wfo podcast 0 nhra national dragsters phil burgess gives the latest on the nhras 50 years of funny cars.

Wfo radio motorsports podcast phil burgess national. The show features interviews with larry morgan, erica enders, jason line, nhra national dragsters phil burgess. Phil burgess, nhra national dragster editor everything changes, thats a fact, to quote my musical hero bruce springsteen, and thats certainly been true over the 12plus years of the dragster. Christmas tree drag racing wikimili, the free encyclopedia. Rampy becomes fourth driver in nhra history to collect 100. March 2018, nicknamed the snail sometimes schnoz, was an american drag racer. Drag racing legend vern moats passes competition plus. 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. Nhra drivers find information on your favorite nhra drivers. Wfo radio motorsports podcast wfo radio nhra nitro podcast.

Drag racing legend ray alley passes competition plus. When nhra started, wally parks wanted to keep it at a grass roots level, which was ok the first several years. Wfo radio motorsports podcast phil burgess 05102016. Phil burgess, nhra national dragster editor eight vintage pro stock machines will add to the magic of the 60th annual lucas oil nhra winternationals presented by, making wheelstanding, gearjamming passes down the famed quartermile at auto club raceway at pomona. Candies had a need for speed, and a knack for racing. Melanie troxel said in an interview with competition plus thursday she will not be driving in any capacity for roger burgess r2b2racing team in 2012. According to an article published in the september, 20 issue of national dragster, official magazine of the national hot rod association nhra, it mentions in an old newspaper article from laverne, california that chrondek corporation founder oilver riley was approached in. Join facebook to connect with phil burgess and others you may know. Dragster insider nhra national dragster editor phil burgess takes readers on a journey through nhra history to tell the stories behind the stories. I dont have the date but it was sometime after bill retired. Division 6 claims jegs allstars team title by phil. Many top fuel and funny car drivers have gone on to become crew chiefs, but there arent a lot of guys who. Ray alley, a former funny car racer and team owner who was instrumental in the early years of kenny bernsteins racing career and later served as nhra s director of top fuel and funny car racing, died. This is just a small tribute to members of our drag racing family who are no longer with us.

Division 6 claims jegs allstars team title by phil burgess september 30, 2005 racers from nhras northwest division gave new division director jonathan adams a housewarming party by winning the team title at the 22nd annual jegs allstars competition, held in conjunction with the ameriquest mortgage nhra nationals at route 66. It was a pretty tough week for drag racing with the losses of three successful. Sorokin is the son of legendary surfers top fuel driver mike sorokin. Farewell to the dones phil burgess, nhra, august 23, 2019. The great northwest had some great car and great races, and some great photographers, too, as evidenced by the work of herman marchetti, who shares some of his images from the seattle area in the 1970s. With over 40,000 drivers in its rosters, the nhra claims to be the largest motorsports sanctioning body in the world. Unfortunately we ran up against the 2018 fc champ jr todd, and that was all she wrote. The driver sits angled backward, over the top of the differential in a cockpit situated between the two rear tires, a design originating with mickey thompson in 1954, as a way of improving traction. The show features interviews with larry morgan, erica enders, jason line, nhra national dragsters phil burgess, scott. The front engine dragster came about due to engines initially being located in the cars frame in front of the driver.

Storytellers at cptv bill doner tells the story of linda. Fuel and funny car racer jimmy king and versatile driver jet car bob smith. Beckman uninjured in match race incident in nostalgia funny car friday, april 24, 2009 by phil burgess, nhra. Nhra national dragster editor phil burgess has authored more than 700 articles covering legends of the sport, trends, cars. Hopefully well compete a few more times in 2019, well keep you posted.

Red line shirt club the restored greer, black, prudhomme. Prudhomme collected his first nhra event win and his first of five at the winternationals, driving roland leongs. Jul 02, 2018 nhras national dragster is an outstanding publication with its comprehensive coverage of both pro and sportsman drag racing veteran national dragster editor phil burgess recently republished. Phil burgess, nhra national dragster editor the chance to sit and talk with legends of drag racing is one of the real perks of my job, and for a kid who grew up following the sport from the other. Winternationals 2020 wally parks nhra motorsports museum. Certainly, dozens of others would provide their lists of the top racers throughout the nhra s first 50 years. When phil burgess asked for my list of the top 50 drag racers of all time for the nhra s 50 top drivers list, i wondered how i could make a unique contribution to the list. See the complete profile on linkedin and discover phils. The show features interviews with larry morgan, erica enders, jason line, nhra national dragsters phil burgess, scott palmer, randi lyn shipp, bobby bennett from competition plus, nhra s lewis bloom, brian lohnes from, and bob glidden fairmont tribute driver, mike ruth.

Paul candies need for speed leads to louisiana sports. She won the nhra top fuel championship in 1977, 1980, and 1982, becoming the first person to win two and three top fuel titles. Memorable winternationals moments, the 1960s and 70s. People that contributed to our sport specifically dragsters and funny cars from 1950 to 1979. Nhras alan reinhart and host joe castello discuss the passing of an nhra icon. Browse through latest information on your favorite nhra drivers, including full biographies, latest news, highres photos and high quality videos. She was the first woman to receive a license from the national hot rod association nhra to drive a top fuel dragster. Prudhomme crewed for tv tommy ivo on ivos twinengined slingshot in 1960 in 1962, prudhomme was a partner in the greerblackprudhomme fuel digger, which earned the best win record in national hot rod association nhra history, before switching to funny car. Robert hight, bo butner, eric lane, nhra national dragster editor, phil burgess, and nhra s alan reinhart join host joe castello to discuss the start of the mello yello series season in pomona, ca. Nhras national dragster is an outstanding publication with its comprehensive coverage of both pro and sportsman drag racing. According to a cool nhra story written by phil burgess that was published on the car years ago, tech inspection was a five hour affair at the first nhra event that the car raced it. Oct 08, 2018 according to a cool nhra story written by phil burgess that was published on the car years ago, tech inspection was a five hour affair at the first nhra event that the car raced it. At the gatornationals, the next event on the nhra calendar, the qualifiers in pro stock lined up on the track before the start of eliminations in a missing man formation with the pole position being left open for lee shepherd.

Phil burgess racing 15t is a speedway saloon team based in cromwell, central otago, nz. Nhra s national dragster is an outstanding publication with its comprehensive coverage of both pro and sportsman drag racing veteran national dragster editor phil burgess recently re. He would win the nhra fc championship four times in his 35year career. A dragster is a specialized competition automobile used in drag racing. Emery raced fuel altereds and funny cars, and briefly in wheelstanders, as well as serving as crew chief for several top teams. Oct 06, 2016 with a special nod to national dragsters phil burgess, whose online blog post during the event helped flesh out some of the details for us, heres is a look back indy 2016s funny car cackle nats.

She won the nhra top fuel championship in 1977, 1980, and 1982. The final top fuel driver to win a national hot rod association national event in a front engine dragster was art marshall on august 6, 1972 at the le. Nitroburning nostalgiatop fuel dragsters and funny cars will make exhibition passes friday and saturday of the seasonopening 60th annual lucas oil nhra winternationals presented by. With a special nod to national dragsters phil burgess, whose online blog post during the event helped flesh out some of the details for us, heres is a. View phil burgess profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. One thing garlits did for racing was to force nhra into paying higher purses. He seemed to always have confidence in me to be the driver that i could be and have. Since his first drag race at cicero, nys esta drag strip at age 14, phil has had a taste for racing, licensing for an ihra top alcohol funny car in 1991, then moving to nhra in a nitro funny car in 1998. Also, as hard as it is to believe, it was until july 1 of 1973 that pro stock drivers had to be officially licensed by the nhra. Drivers are required to have an nhra summit racing jr. Drag racing in memoriam drag racing, dragsters, funny cars. Nhra driver jack beckman crashes at sacramento raceway.

Virtually anyone ages 517 can participate in nhra summit racing jr. Nhra s alan reinhart and host joe castello discuss the passing of an nhra icon. Drag racing league participant card and must be capable of the safe operation of the vehicle. Phil burgess, nhra national dragster editor race coverage any time you see clay millican and doug herbert together, you have to chuckle, remembering their infamous shoving match at the 2002 reading event, with 6foot4, 220pound dougzilla squaring off with 58, 145pound millican after a startingline burndown. Certainly, he was the guy that helped further a lot of careers, said phil burgess, the editor of the nhra web site. The driver of the orange baron funny car, who began his career in the agas supercharged ranks and famously bragged to have never driven anything on the quartermile that didnt have a supercharger atop the engine, won two nhra. Justin ashley makes nhra top fuel dragster debut at charlotte.

Dec 15, 2005 s popular driver blogs, which this year have allowed fans unparalleled access to the inner thoughts and behindthescenes activities of some of nhra drag racings brightest stars, will continue through the 2006 nhra powerade drag racing series with the seven original members of the cast plus several new additions. Phil burgess archives wfo radio motorsports podcast. Until that time, only drivers of supercharged andor fuelburning. Phil burgess, nhra national dragster editor a lot of former top fuel and funny car drivers have gone on to become successful crew chiefs, but there arent a lot of guys in nhra nitro racings history who not only won a championship as a driver but then used their mechanical skills to tune other drivers to world championships. Nhra southern division director, rich schaefer, answers questions from wfo. In this first of three parts, heres a look at memorable moments from the 1960s and 70s from the deep history of the event. Vern moats, one of the longesttenured top alcohol funny car driver before his retirement in 2012, died jan. Leroy chadderton, a wellknown southern californiabased driver of fuel altereds and funny cars in the 1970s, died april 3 after a long battle with cancer and heart problems. A memorial service for top fuel racer bobby baldwin will be held wednesday morning, sept. Muldowney had major impact on drag racing, may 29, 2007. Courtesy of phil burgess photo 2002 bme photography. He is ranked at number 16 on a list of the 50 most significant drivers of nhras first 50 years.

Salt lake city funny car team owners robert and lisa schwab have once again enlisted the hand of veteran driver phil burkart jr. Jun 30, 2017 seattle in the 70s, part 1 by phil burgess, nhra national dragster editor. In 2001, a panel ranked shepherd twelfth in the national hot rod association top 50 drivers, 19512000. Grant downing, in just his fourth nhra race as a venom team driver, and bruce mortensen, in just his fifth nhra outing, scored victories in pro and hot rod, respectively, to lead the winners list in the lone star state. Memorable winternationals moments, the 1960s and 70s nhra. Also competing in top fuel will be another multitime series and march meet champion in jim murphy and the ww2 racing dragster, plus bret williamson. Phil burgess, nhra national dragster editor ten years ago, i wrote this column with a slew of trivia about the chevrolet performance u. Nhra s phil burgess wrote an excellent article in august 2016. Cards and flowers may be sent directly to the main address of the.

The pro mod car had an automatic shifter so theres not much for the driver to do no clutch pedal and no shifter. Voted car craft magazine allstar team, top fuel driver of the year, for the. Enjoy the history of our sport, today by those who helped build it. Nostalgia top fuelers and funny cars will add to 60th winternationals celebration. Any time you see clay millican and doug herbert together, you have to chuckle, remembering their infamous shoving match at the 2002 reading event, with 6foot4, 220pound dougzilla squaring off with. Drag racing story of the day the drag racing list top. When phil burgess asked for my list of the top 50 drag racers of all time for the nhras 50 top drivers list, i wondered how i could make a unique contribution to.

Nationals funny car winner gary burgin died may 23. Pappy hart, who helped create the first commercial drag strip in america, passed away june 25, a few weeks after suffering a stroke. Tom mcewen january 14, 1937 june 11, 2018 was an american drag racer who was a winner of the national hot rod association nhra u. The tony nancy wedge was two different streamliner dragsters designed by steve swaja in 1963, they were built for tony nancy, to run in nhra s aagas agas supercharged class. Nhra has become the only sanctioning body for drag racing and i think racing would be better off w more sanctioning groups. He drove a series of doorslammers and appeared to be a pro stock driver, but then he decided to start racing the faster funny cars. Phil burgess, nhra national dragster editor for fans of nitro racing in the 1960s and 70s, the last week was a double whammy, especially for west coast fans with the passing of top fuelfunny car. Nov 14, 2018 phil burgess, nhra national dragster editor with his victory in comp eliminator at the auto club nhra finals, david rampy became just the fourth driver in nhra history to score 100 national event victories. He initially did not have enough experience with funny cars to start the car. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. There continues to be controversy, even today, as to who was actual inventor of the christmas tree. Shirley muldowney born june 19, 1940, also known professionally as cha cha and the.