“I just don’t get caught up in all that (Internet trash talk). I do like to sit back
and read it on Facebook though. It’s good entertainment.” - MARK MICKE
MOVERS & SHAKERS
TRACK WHISPERER
Longtime track
surface guru Lanny
Miglizzi examines
the starting line at
Wild Horse Pass
Motorsports Park for
John Force Racing
and their quad of
nitro entries.
ONE FOR THE
SCRAPBOOK
STOP RIGHT THERE!
Kenny Laughlin guides
his son, multi-time
NHRA Pro Stock event
winner Alex Laughlin,
into the pre-stage
beams at preseason
testing in Phoenix.
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MOVING ON Bryan Kennedy is all smiles after winning the second round of a
bracket race at Mooresville Dragway. Kennedy contracted an infection as a kid
that left him barely able to walk, but he doesn’t let that stop him from being a
fierce competitor at his local drag strips in North Carolina.
Issue 142
HINSON,
Top Fuel driver Mike
Salinas gets ready to
throw on his head sock
before making a test
pass in his Scrappers
Racing dragster tuned
by Brian Husen and
Alan Johnson.