top-right: Griz Robinson, bottom-left: Kenny Boxer, bottom-right: Doug Vancil

Three hundred or so Harley Davidson drag bikes plus the assemblage of more than three thousand participants in the annual Gypsy Rendezvous charity ride combined to make the All-Harley Drag Racing Association’s annual Gypsy Rendezvous Nationals in Madison, IL, one of the largest events on the association’s nationwide tour. Just under 300 H-D competitors, representing 33 states (!) and three countries raced under mostly cloudless skies and the resultant 125-degree track temperature. Despite those conditions the riders and tuners managed to deliver multiple Gateway International Raceway track records and even several new AHDRA World Records. This race was a tuners race as much as a horsepower contest.