Drag Illustrated Issue 118, February 2017 | Page 17

Staging Lanes
PATIENTLY
WAITING
A carbon fiber spill plate offers a brief moment of rest for
Danette Thompson as she awaits the next round of Top Alcohol
Funny Car qualifying at an NHRA Lucas Oil Series regional event.
She’s been a longtime fixture in the Northwest alcohol Funny Car
pits as a vital crew member on the 2016 Camaro driven by her
husband, Clint. The Thompsons made the local news at several
stops on their 2016 national tour as the “Racers for Trump”
branding on the car garnered attention wherever it went.
Photograph by Paul Grant
Pacific Raceways | Kent, Washington | Saturday, August 20, 2016
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