Drag Illustrated Issue 139, December 2018 | Page 6

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FEATURES
22 Elite 16
Pro Modified drivers from at least five
different series came together at the
Texas Motorplex to face off for $50,000
at the Mid-West Pro Mod Series’ inau-
gural Elite 16 event presented by Elite
Motorsports. By Ian Tocher
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“All the Track
Will Hold”
59 Racing for Kids
After a devastating cancer battle took
teenaged Lindsey Callaway from Ro-
swell, New Mexico’s racing community,
the racers of Alien City Dragway vowed
to honor her memory with an annual
“Race for Kids.” In less than 10 years,
it’s raised $600,000 in toys and dona-
tions for a local children’s hospital.
By Van Abernethy
SPECIAL SECTION
30 UNDER 30
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90 CAM CLARK
94 NICOLE LIBERTY
98 MADYSON AYESH
103 DANIEL YOUNG
111 MIKE DECKER III
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DEPARTMENTS
D I RT
28 Million Dollar Race
Kenny Underwood continued to solidify his status as one of
the sport’s best bracket racers when he became just the sec-
ond person to win the Mickey Thompson Million Dollar Race
twice in the event’s 23-year history. By Rob King
T E CH
72 Splined Crankshafts
Problematic crankshafts in high-horsepower boosted engines led Cal-
lies Performance Products to develop their new splined crankshafts,
the latest addition to their line of bulletproof products.
By John Carollo
ON THE COVER Two-time NHRA Top Fuel event champion Blake Alexander as photographed
by Rick Belden at the Rick Belden Photography studio in Huntersville, North Carolina.
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RICHARDS
Our panel of drag racing insiders sifted
through thousands of submissions
before selecting 30 young men and
women, all under the age of 30, who
are doing big things on drag strips,
in the pits and at race shops in all
corners of the straight-line world.