Drag Racing Online - Departments: Quiz Vol. IV No. 10 October 2002

by Chris Martin

THE LOADED QUESTION-er

Okay quizlings ... let's see what we can come up with this time ... and this time I will endeavor to make sure my answers are right. Two quizzes ago ... sheesh ... bad fallout from a few Romillar/Dos Reales cocktails, I guess. Because of that snafu, I'll make this one a shade simpler until I get my feet under me. I'm going to the California Hot Rod Reunion this week, so these queries will involve Bakersfield.

1. The last racer to win Top Fuel at Bakersfield

A. Butch Blair
B. Bob Reehl
C. Tim Gibson
D. Don Garlits

2. The best speed ever run by a Top Fuel dragster at the Bakersfield event was turned by Don Garlits. The terminal velocity was

A. 272.56
B. 271.90
C. 273.05
D. 268.01

3. Connie Kalitta won the Bakersfield title twice, once in 1964 and the other in

A. 1969
B. 1970
C. 1979
D. 1980

4. By 1971, this driver had won both Top Fuel and Funny Car titles at the Bakersfield meet. He was

A. Mike Snively
B. Jim Dunn
C. Dave Beebe
D. Tom McEwen

5. In one of the greatest drag racing sacrileges, this driver's Funny Car set top speed for BOTH Top Fuel and Funny Car at Bakersfield. Hint: it occurred in the middle 1980s.

A. Rick Johnson in the Hawaiian Punch Dodge
B. Ed McCulloch in Larry Minor's Olds
C. Don Prudhomme in the Pepsi Challenger
D. Mike Dunn in the Hawaiian Punch Dodge

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LAST MONTH'S ANSWERS

Jim Moe was the first contestant with the most correct answers for our September quiz. Read and learn:

1. The winner of the 1980 Orange County Manufacturers Funny Car Championship was: C. Raymond Beadle

2. Dale Creasy, the guy who owns the 2002 Craftsman Firebird Funny Car, owned the Funny Car that runner-upped to Don Prudhomme at the 1974 AHRA Challenge in Tulsa. Who was his driver? A. Al Marshall

3. Recent Indy Top Fuel winner Tony Schumacher's dad, Don, won Funny Car at what U.S. Nationals? B. 1970

4. NHRA ran a Fallnationals events in the years 1975 through 1980, and then discontinued it before reviving it in 1988. The 3 pro winners at the 1980 event were: A. Shirley Muldowney, Raymond Beadle, Bob Glidden

5. What was the site of the first IHRA national event? B. Rockingham Dragway

6. According to most drag racing historical records, the first night drag race was held at: D. Saugus, Calif.

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