MESA, Ariz. — In baseball, I’d be a superstar. But batting .500 in 2023 NHRA predictions just makes me mediocre. Sigh. But, as promised, here is an accounting of which prophecies came true and which didn’t. Of 10 items, the results were 50-50: five hits, five flops. A prominent nitro-class…
But it took Doug Kalitta 26 years — more than a quarter century — to earn the NHRA Top Fuel championship. Specifically, it took him 587 races, and in the drag-racing world, that headline from the In-N-Out Burger Finals in Pomona, Calif., ranked right up there with “Man Bites Dog.”
If the NHRA had a nickel for every time somebody started a sentence with “The NHRA should …,” the sanctioning body would have enough money to raise purses for the first time in two decades.
MESA, Ariz. — In baseball, I’d be a superstar. But batting .500 in 2023 NHRA predictions just makes me mediocre. Sigh. But, as promised, here is an accounting of which prophecies came true and which didn’t. Of 10 items, the results were 50-50: five hits, five flops. A prominent nitro-class…
MESA, Ariz. — In baseball, I’d be a superstar. But batting .500 in 2023 NHRA predictions just makes me mediocre. Sigh. But, as promised, here is an accounting of which prophecies came true and which didn’t. Of 10 items, the results were 50-50: five hits, five flops. A prominent nitro-class…
MESA, Ariz. — In baseball, I’d be a superstar. But batting .500 in 2023 NHRA predictions just makes me mediocre. Sigh. But, as promised, here is an accounting of which prophecies came true and which didn’t. Of 10 items, the results were 50-50: five hits, five flops. A prominent nitro-class…
MESA, Ariz. — In baseball, I’d be a superstar. But batting .500 in 2023 NHRA predictions just makes me mediocre. Sigh. But, as promised, here is an accounting of which prophecies came true and which didn’t. Of 10 items, the results were 50-50: five hits, five flops. A prominent nitro-class…
