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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.
Tom Hoover (c. 1941 – October 21, 2022) was an American gasser drag racer. [1] Driving a DeSoto-powered 1957 Plymouth, he won NHRA's first ever C/Gas Altered (C/GA) national title at Detroit Dragway in 1960. His winning pass was 14.33 seconds at 100.67 mph (162.01 km/h). [2] He won no other NHRA gasser titles. [3]
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After opening a motorcycle shop, he returned several years later to race motorcycles. He started racing drag boats after attending a drag boat event in 1974 and he won championships in all of the major boat drag racing sanctioning bodies. Hill set the lowest wet elapsed time (e.t.) record with a 5.16-second run, which was lower than the land ...
[4] which sponsored several well-known racing cars, including Rattler (driven by Larry Dixon, to a Top Fuel Eliminator win at the Hot Rod Magazine Championship Drag Races in 1968 [5]). The company was founded by Howard and his wife as Howards Power & Racing Equipment, as a manufacturer of racing cams in 1945.
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.
Born in Spokane, to Edsol "Ed" and Joan, Sneva's first powered vehicle was a go-kart, which he received at age 14; by age 18 he was racing stock cars. [4] Sneva graduated from Lewis and Clark High School, where he played football and basketball, before attending Eastern Washington State College, where he played a year of college basketball. [5]
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]