Although he has said, “There’s a good chance I probably won’t be around to worry about it,” Cruz Pedregon does try to envision what the NHRA will look like in 25 years.
Long before the extended, involuntary suspension of sporting events this spring, many drag-racing fans were wondering how the sport will survive someday without the continued participation of Don Schumacher, John Force and Connie Kalitta.
Heather Ronnebaum is not the average librarian. For 10 years, she and her husband were crew members for an eight-second Mustang that competed in NMCA drag races. She is a bit of a rebel.
It might be difficult for the NHRA to top the drama from its final day of last season with all four pro champions crowned, a top-end fight, qualifying-order manipulation, bribery and all sorts of rumors and controversy.
During a life of close calls with the double demons of fire and flying shrapnel always lurking, Don Garlits has done some of his most profound thinking while lying in a hospital bed.
