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10/7/05

THE LOADED QUESTION(er)

To the matter at hand; we’ve now done three personality quizzes. Our subjects have been Mike Dunn, Ed McCulloch, and Al Hofmann and because of the wild animal success of this trio, we’re gonna stick with personalities … but personalities of a different type. Cinder block personality, timing tower personality, Drag STRIP personality. Yes, for the first time, we’re gonna play name that drag strip. Given all the photos my fans and fannettes have looked at, this one should be a walk in the International Raceway Park.

1.) You can’t miss this personality-laden drag strip. All photos shot from the right side of this Southern course, show a sheer dirt cliff where the left-side photographers area or grandstands should be. It is
a.) Savannah Drag Strip (Georgia) b.) Yello Belly Dragstrip (Grand Prairie, Texas)	c.) Lasater Mountain (Coalburg, Alabama) d.) Suffolk Raceway (Virginia)
2.) One of the upper Midwest’s most historic tracks, you could tell instantly where you were without a caption. The right side of this roughly 45 year-old course was solid advertising billboards with no bleachers. Nitro cars and just about every kind of track conveyance stretched its legs here.
a.) Great Lakes Dragaway (Union Grove, Wisc.) b.) U.S. 30 Dragstrip (Gary, Indiana)	c.) Rockford Dragway (Byron, Illinois) d.) Rock Falls Raceway (Eau Claire, Wisconsin)
3.) A Hollywood-style three-story, glass-encased tower and top end scoreboards in the late 1960s describes
a.) Seattle Int’l Raceway b.) Orange County Int’l Raceway	c.) Bonneville Raceway Park d.) Firebird Raceway (Emmett, Idaho)
4.) A state-of-the-art dragstrip hosted NHRA and IHRA national events until it literally sunk into the sand in the mid-1970s. (Hint - It didn’t sink totally or all at once.)
a.) Dallas Int’l Motor Speedway b.) The Circle (Texas)	c.) Shelby County/Lakeland, Tennessee d.) Marion County/LaRue, Ohio
5.) The short-lived United Hot Rod Association of Gil Kohn and Ed Eaton ran many of its national events at Kansas City Int’l Raceway, Detroit Dragway, and this East Coast Emporium.
a.) New York National (Center Moriches, L.I.) b.) Lebanon Valley Raceway (W. Lebanon, N.Y.)	c.) Atco Raceway (Atco, New Jersey) d.) York U.S. 30 Dragway

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Congratulations to our September quiz winner, Greg Fedak! And now, here are the September quiz answers.

SEPTEMBER QUIZ ANSWERS

1.) Al Hofmann began his Funny Car career in what year? b.) 1979

2.) The name of Hofmann’s first Funny Car was d.) “China Syndrome”

3.) In 1994, Hofmann hit a milestone of sorts when he … a.) became the second Funny Car driver over 300-mph and entered the Slick 50 300-mph club.

4.) How many times did Hofmann win the then Big Bud Shootout, now the Skoal Shootout? a.) 3

5.) Hofmann, who finished as high as second place in the Winston top 10 standings, had an overall victory total of b.) 15

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