“I wasn’t going up there to putt it up to the green, I was going to knock it in the
hole from about 300 yards out.” - NHRA GATORNATIONALS PRO MOD NO. 1 QUALIFIER STEVE JACKSON
MOVERS & SHAKERS
READY TO GO
Blake Barbieri receives some last-minute coaching from his mother in the staging lanes
of Immokalee Regional Raceway during the season-opening IHRA Sportsman National
Championship, held February 3-5. Barbieri was one of many young racers who traveled
to the Florida track and entered the Junior Master category.
Old
Friends
Mountain Motor Pro Stock patriarchs Dean
Goforth and Elijah Morton share a laugh
in the staging lanes before a qualifying
session at the season-opening PDRA
Southern Extreme Nationals in Valdosta,
Georgia. Goforth, Morton and the rest of
the Extreme Pro Stock racers are running
the full eight-race PDRA schedule this year.
The Voice
Alvin Dildine prepares to call the action from the tower
of Rockingham Dragway during the 21st running of
the track’s free-entry bracket race held each March.
Often referred to as “The Voice of Bracket Racing” in
the Southeast, Alvin’s familiar commentating has been
enjoyed over the public address since the 1970s at many
tracks throughout the region.
LITTLE EVIL
Tracy Pearson stands out in front
of the familiar Calypso-blue
Fox-body Mustang driven by her
husband David during Outlaw
Drag Radial competition at Lights
Out 8. The Pearsons were awarded
the inaugural “Mustang Mike”
Memorial Award presented by Bill
Miller Engineering in memory of
their late friend, Mike Modeste.
DUCKING OUT
Wes Buck catches Donald “Duck” Long
in the Lights Out 8 winner’s circle for
one last selfie video from the wildly
successful small tire race. Buck’s selfie
videos amassed well over 600,000 views
on the DRAG ILLUSTRATED Facebook
page over the course of the weekend.
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