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A fearless figure on the racing circuit, Ongais was nicknamed "On-the-Gas" and "The Flyin' Hawaiian." [2] He is the only driver to have won the NHRA U.S. Nationals and the 24 Hours of Daytona. In the 1960s he won multiple drag racing championships and was named one of the National Hot Rod Association’s Top 50 Drivers for 1951-2000.
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Ronda took a radically different tack after retiring from drag racing. Four years later, he opened the Funny Car Tavern, located in Azusa, California. [1] In time, he moved to West Covina, establishing a nightclub called Ronda's Gas House, with three bars and two dance floors, right on Interstate 10 east of Azusa Ave. [1] [16] Over the following eighteen years, it kept Ronda so busy, he could ...
By the mid 1950s, his drag race cars were winning consistently at NHRA's events all over the country and in 1955, he drove to the first-ever NHRA C/Gas national title in Great Bend, Kansas. In 1957, Johansen campaigned two stock cars on the NASCAR circuit which were driven by Marshall Sargent and Rex White .
He also won Gas Street Eliminator at Indianapolis in 1962. [4] The next year, he won a second NHRA C/GS national title, at the Nationals in Indianapolis, again driving the Moody & Jones gasser. His winning pass there was 11.70 seconds at 117.80 mph (189.58 km/h). [5]
From coast to coast, the top competitors from N. America and Europe compete at high speeds in street legal cars, on all types of drive-able surfaces. Teams from Subaru Rally Team, Team O'Neil Motorsports, Honda Performance Development, and Dirt Fish compete alongside the fastest privateers like Phoenix Project (phxpjt.com) and McKenna Motorsports.
George Montgomery (January 27, 1933 – August 24, 2023), nicknamed Ohio George, was an American gasser drag racer. [1]Montgomery began drag racing as a teen, [2] learning mechanical skills at the AC Delco plant in Dayton, Ohio, he would later use to build the supercharger on his 390 cu in (6 L) Cadillac; he would mate a Cragar 4-71 manifold to a GMC 6-71 blower, and hand-fabricated the drive ...
The National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) is a governing body which sets rules in drag racing and hosts events all over the United States and Canada.With over 40,000 drivers in its rosters, the NHRA claims to be the largest motorsport sanctioning body in the world.