Duration : 0:8:20

Technorati Tags: 1969 Mustang, 70 1/2 Falcon, drag racing, female drag racer, Gimli Dragways, Ihra

The Super Class course is the most popular program at Frank Hawley’s Drag Racing School for both experienced and beginning drivers. Compared to these super class cars the fastest and most powerful passenger car on the market is like driving a baby stroller. Even if you can handle a Viper or turbo Porsche, your first run in this dragster will be absolutely astonishing.

Unless you have catapulted off an aircraft carrier or blasted off in the space shuttle, nothing in your previous life will have prepared you for the experience. But your training at Frank Hawley’s Drag Racing School will let you keep complete control of yourself and the car — right to the limit of performance.

These two day courses include classroom instruction, progressively faster runs down the strip and video review of your runs. Those new to drag racing will learn basic techniques and procedures.
Experienced racers will master the mental challenges that separate winners from losers. Age, size and gender are immaterial: the race car puts everyone on an equal footing. The winning difference is your ability to control yourself in a challenging environment.

If you have experience on the quarter mile, you’ll be blown away by the amount of knowledge you’ll gain through this program. You’ll increase your skills and gain confidence at handling these lightning quick machines. You’ll learn how your mind and body work and how to train yourself to think, act and perform like a champion.

This course keeps a steady pace with plenty of action on and off the track. Earn your NHRA Competition Driver’s License. The privilege to race these dragsters at NHRA race tracks across the country is limited to those holding a valid NHRA competition driver’s license. Our course can provide you with this valued license.

* No previous racing experience required.

Duration : 0:3:34

Technorati Tags: ADRL, AHRA, drag race, drag racing, Drag School, dragster, Frank Hawley, Ihra, nhra, NMCA, NRMA, Super Comp, Super Gas

“At every race track that I go to,” said Hardy, “everyone comes up and asks for my autograph. They ask what he was like and if he was as crazy as they’ve heard. The fans really miss him, and they miss the fun part of drag racing. The sport has become so professional now that there’s no room for any of that anymore.”

“I was just 18 when I met him. I was still attending high school in West Chester, Pa., and had never been further away from home than the next town over. I was walking down the street one day, and here comes this yellow Corvette speeding down the street. This guy walks out, comes up to me, and says, “Hi, I’m Jim.”
I had never been to a drag race before, but the next thing I knew, we we’re heading for his match race in Xenia, Ohio. He showed me how to back him up after the burnouts, and from then on, my life was just a whirlwind tour all over the country.”

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers song “American Girl” was released in 1977, the same year Jungle Jim passed away.

Well she was an American girl
Raised on promises
She couldn’t help thinkin that there
Was a little more to life
Somewhere else
After all it was a great big world
With lots of places to run to
Yeah, and if she had to die
Tryin’ she had one little promise
She was gonna keep

Oh yeah, all right
Take it easy baby
Make it last all night
She was an American girl

It was kind of cold that night
She stood alone on her balcony
She could hear the cars roll by
Out on 441
Like waves crashin’ in the beach
And for one desperate moment there
He crept back in her memory
God it’s so painful
Something that’s so close
And still so far out of reach

Oh yeah, all right
Take it easy baby
Make it last all night
She was an American girl

This video was created from clips from the Diamond P video “Fabulous Floppers” and photos that I took of some of Jungle Jim’s cars at 131 Dragway back in the ’60s. The photos of Jungle Jim and Pam at 1:48, 1:53 and 1:59 are courtesy of Tom McCrea tmccrea. Photo at 2:36 is by Steve Scott. Other pictures are from unknown photographers.

Duration : 0:4:56

Technorati Tags: AHRA, Car, Drag, Funny, Hardy, Ihra, Jim, Jungle, Liberman, nhra, nitro, Pam, Racing

Duration : 0:5:8

Technorati Tags: Car, Compilation, Crash, Drag, Fuel, Funny, Ihra, nhra, pro, Race, stock, Top

Duration : 0:9:55

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James Bates and “Big Daddy” Don Garlits are there for Speedvision.

Duration : 0:2:16

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These Don Dahl provided movies which were edited and enhanced by DAR-MEDIA.com show the period of time when Dragway 42 advanced from a nationally known track to the “World’s Only 4 Lane Drag Strip”.

Watch Chevelles, Corvettes, Mopars, 55 and 57 Chevys, coupes, Willys, and more.

The production includes rare footage of the original L.A. Dart wheelstander driven by Wild Bill Schrewsberry during the days before steering brakes, rear mounted engines, and glass bottomed chassis were in use as well as Fast Eddie Schartman in his Air Lift Rattler sponsored Mercury Cyclone funny car in two exhibition runs including a match race against a top fuel dragster.

Enjoy this vintage racing action from Dragway 42, Northern Ohio’s place to race for more than 50 years.

For more information concerning the history of and current racing action at the track, visit the website at http://www.dragway42.com

Duration : 0:4:59

Technorati Tags: 42, Car, Class, Drag, Dragway, Funny, Ihra, NASCAR., nhra, Racing, stock, UDRA, Vintage, Wheelstander

Expert: Tina Stull
Bio: Tina Stull has been racing full-time for the past three years and currently drives a Top Dragster in the NHRA and IHRA.
Filmmaker: Mark Sullivan

Duration : 0:1:23

Technorati Tags: Car, dirt, Drag, engine, Ihra, import, motor, nhra, Racing, slot, sprint, street

Duration : 0:2:24

Technorati Tags: Aronson, Cale, Car, Drag, Engines, ford, Ihra, In, Jon, Kaase, Motorsports, pro, Racing, stock, WWW.GOFASTQUICK.COM

Duration : 0:2:24

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