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Three-time NHRA Mello Yello Series Top Fuel champion Larry Dixon has acquired race cars and necessary racing equipment to his Larry Dixon Racing stable at his team’s headquarters in Brownsburg, Ind.

Dixon, the second winningest Top Fuel driver in NHRA history with 62 wins, lost his Top Fuel ride due to financial difficulties at the end of the 2015 season and began preparations to develop his own race organization and get back in the driver’s seat.

Dixon did return to action in June and scored a Top Fuel victory at Australia in the Rapisarda dragster on the quarter-mile at Willowbank Raceway in the City of Ipswich Australian Winternationals near Brisbane. Dixon, who already owns the National E.T Record in Australia, now owns the Speed Record as well.

Dixon, who returned to full-time racing in 2015, won the battle with throat cancer in 2015 and survived a punishing 109g crash at the NHRA Gatornationals which broke his T-4 and T-5 vertebrae but kept competing and finished in fourth place in the final Top Fuel standings.

“For the last year of my life, with cancer, a broken back and then losing my ride; everything that’s happened, winning races like we did in Australia makes all that pain go away,” said Dixon.
 

Now, Dixon and a few associates have been collecting race cars, engines, blowers, parts, transporters and pit equipment to formulate the plan to begin his own Top Fuel operation.
 

And Dixon is anxious to find additional support to campaign again in a Top Fuel dragster.
 

“I’m finally 100 percent healthy now and I’m excited to go racing again,” Dixon said. “I’m so anxious to get in a car and get after it! We have put together the equipment which could be very competitive right out of the gate. There is a lot of excitement being generated in the drag racing world, especially in Top Fuel. With the great tv packages in place and sellout crowds, I don’t think the timing could be any better than now to show that right marketing partner what we can do on and off the track.

“I’ve have spent my entire life in this sport and I’m not ready to walk away just yet,” admitted Dixon. “I feel like I’m just getting started!”