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The legend of "Big Mike" Burkhart

A couple of weeks ago, my weekly My Favorite Fuelers column on the National Dragster website centered on Top Fuel and Funny Car drivers from the great stat

https://www.nhra.com/news/2013/legend-big-mike-burkhart

Remembering Paul Candies

To some folks, Paul Candies was “just” the wallet behind the fabulously successful Candies & Hughes race teams that terrorized the strip for four decad

https://www.nhra.com/news/2013/remembering-paul-candies

Play it again, Sam

Sam Schermerhorn today, with girlfriend Paula and their pal, Budda I have a pretty good grasp of drag racing’s history and even of some of the mor

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Top Fuel blowovers, Part 3

Like a Top Fueler flipping overbackward and returning to earth pointed in the wrong direction, I’m back for part three of the blowover chronicles, beginning with a little historica

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Continuing the Breed-lovefest

(Above) Craig Breedlove, left, and engine builder Dave Carpenter with the new and still unpainted Spirit II outside of Quinn Epperly's sh

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Crowning champions, then and now

I had planned today to share – as promised Tuesday -- some stories behind the stories of former NHRA Funny Car world champ Phil Castronovo, who passed away Saturday, but, wit

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Back on the 'Dyno'

Tuesday’s column about Don Nicholson bought out the love for the dyno man and a slew of those whose lives he touched. I’ll share some of those stories below as well as offer great

https://www.nhra.com/news/2011/back-dyno

Brush with garage greatness

I got an email from reader Derek Staples that, based on years of correspondence with the readers of this column, may well ring true with many of you. For many race fans of – ahem –

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Another Memorable Motorplex Moment

First Top Fuel five: Missed it First Funny Car five: Ditto First 300: Not present

https://www.nhra.com/news/2011/another-memorable-motorplex-moment

Don't lift until you've heard the referee's whistle

I coached youth hockey for my son’s teams for a number of years, and one of the things I always worked hard to remind the kids of was to keep playing until they heard the referee’s

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