BIONDO TAKES 45TH NHRA NATIONAL EVENT WIN

Words by Eric Lotz
Photos by Chris Haverly

Peter Biondo raced to his 45th NHRA National event win June 17 at the Ford NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals at Bristol Dragway to go along with his six NHRA Lucas Oil National Championships and his 13 divisional championships.
           
The Maspeth, N.Y., racer worked his way through the Super Stock field to face off with Bobby Dennis, Shorter, Ala., in the final. Dennis had a near perfect reaction time of .001 seconds but Biondo ran him down with a 9.753 second pass at 129.18 mph for the win.
           
Russell Johnson, Sharpsburg, Ga., scored the win in Stock Eliminator posting a run of 11.183, 117.23 in his ’67 Fairlane over Anthony Bertozzi, Ashland, Va., who left early with a red-light foul start.