The second year of the NHRA World Finals at Orange County International Raceway produced this gem. Sit back and watch as NHRA championships were clinched by Shirley Muldowney, Frank Hawley and the late Lee Shepherd. Enjoy the golden tones of Dave McClelland and Steve Evans as they call the action.
Take a trip back in time when two of the three professional divisions had championships go down to the wire. This coverage appeared on NBC's Sportsworld, one of three sports variety shows which thrived before the advent of 24-hour sports cable television shows.
In Top Fuel, Shirley Muldowney had to fight off multiple drivers for a chance to win her second NHRA championship at the final race hosted by Ontario Motor Speedway.
The race coverage was broken down into two episodes with one focusing on Top Fuel and the other on Funny Car and Pro Stock. This second part of the video features the historic Pro Stock championship battle between Bob Glidden and the late Lee Shepherd. Ron Colson wins in his final Funny Car race.
NHRA national event racing for 1978 came to a dramatic conclusion this past weekend with the running of the 14th annual Winston World Finals. It was excitement galore at Ontario Motor Speedway: performance-wise, final-round drama-wise, and everything else-wise. It was a picture-perfect finish for the stellar '78 drag racing season, one that the spectators, racers, officials, and manufacturers will long remember.
The NHRA Winston Professional titles in Top Fuel, Funny Car and Pro Stock might have been sewed up long before the World Finals, but that didn't take anything away from stellar pro action. Rob Bruins, fresh off his Fallnationals triumph, put Gaines Markley's potent mount back in the Top Fuel winner's circle when performance star Gary Beck had trouble on the line. Raymond Beadle annexed the Funny Car crown, stopping Tom McEwen in the final. And in Pro Stock, well Bob Glidden kept his undefeated string alive with his Ford Fairmont by topping Larry Lombardo. - Dave Densmore
Travel back in time to 1979, a season which began a transition of NHRA Winston Drag Racing from the largely independent professional drag racing towards corporate backing. You'll see the greats like Don Prudhomme, Shirley Muldowney and Bob Glidden. But one of the finest moments is in seeing the beautiful Showtime Corvette of Tom Hoover proving that looks can win.
Storytellers, the entertaining series created by the producers of Legends: The Series, allows drag racing's legends to tell their stories of the good old days for drag racing.
In this episode, Billy Meyer tells about the time getting burned in a Funny Car during the Montreal race in 1977 was the least of his worries. Waco Willie found out just how treacherous getting Connie Kalitta to fly you to the burn hospital could be. Sit back as Billy tells how he cheated death twice in one weekend.
It's the California Hot Rod Reunion, the final stop on the 2022 NHRA Heritage Series. This annual tradition every season to Bakersfield, CA., brings out the best AA/FD and AA/FC competition and everything down the line in terms of nostalgia competition. Thanks to our coverage partners at DragRacerTV, we will bring you the event from start to finish.
Long before he became a talented Pro Stock driver or a street-legal drag racing champion. or an nitrous-injected, electronic fuel injected engine building phenom, Pat Musi was. a kid who worked his way up the ladder from Modified Production.
In this never before seen footage, Musi and Legends: The Series producer Bobby Bennett sat down for a reaction video from some old 8-mm videos rescued from the back of the shop in Carteret, New Jersey.
They had just wrapped up shooting for an upcoming episode of the series and spent some time reliving the good old days. There's some insightful information, wise cracks and a general good time.
Forget any preconceptions you might have had about Billy Meyer, the Hall of Fame Funny Car driver, developer of the game-changing Texas Motorplex and one-time owner of the IHRA. In this episode of Legends: The Series, producer/director Bobby Bennett cuts through the brash, bold façade that was the talented Texan’s alter ego to reveal a thoughtful visionary whose impact on the sport has been immeasurable.
From fielding one of the first 18-wheel support rigs to introducing myriad new corporate sponsors through previously untapped B2B relationships to building a racetrack that set a new standard for the sport at almost every level, Meyer’s fingerprints are all over the straight-line landscape.
Growing up in a household in which failure was not an option, he was the youngest son of motivational entrepreneur Paul J. Meyer, founder of Success Motivation Institute, who early-on taught him the value of goal setting, focus and hard work.
NHRA national event racing for 1978 came to a dramatic conclusion this past weekend with the running of the 14th annual Winston World Finals. It was excitement galore at Ontario Motor Speedway: performance-wise, final-round drama-wise, and everything else-wise. It was a picture-perfect finish for the stellar '78 drag racing season, one that the spectators, racers, officials, and manufacturers will long remember.
Travel back in time to 1979, a season which began a transition of NHRA Winston Drag Racing from the largely independent professional drag racing towards corporate backing. You'll see the greats like Don Prudhomme, Shirley Muldowney and Bob Glidden. But one of the finest moments is in seeing the beautiful Showtime Corvette of Tom Hoover proving that looks can win.
Long before he became a talented Pro Stock driver or a street-legal drag racing champion. or an nitrous-injected, electronic fuel injected engine building phenom, Pat Musi was. a kid who worked his way up the ladder from Modified Production.
Forget any preconceptions you might have had about Billy Meyer, the Hall of Fame Funny Car driver, developer of the game-changing Texas Motorplex and one-time owner of the IHRA. In this episode of Legends: The Series, producer/director Bobby Bennett cuts through the brash, bold façade that was the talented Texan’s alter ego to reveal a thoughtful visionary whose impact on the sport has been immeasurable.
