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Concord: Give Smith Drag Strip, Own Street

This whole flap with the City of Concord, North Carolina and Speedway Motorsports CEO Bruton Smith really is turning quite comical. Speedway Motorsports owns Lowe's Motor Speedway, the race track in Concord.First, Concord re-zoned Bruton's land to specifically deny him the right. Or, more easily, the equivalent to finding...

Force Leaves Dallas Hospital

27 days after suffering horrific injuries in a 300mph crash in Dallas, NHRA champion John Force headed home from the hospital Saturday in Dallas.Force suffered major injuries after his Funny Car ripped in two pieces at the completion of a run during the O'Reilly Fall Nationals at the Texas Motorplex on Sep. 23.Left with a...

John Force Airlifted to Dallas Hospital

UPDATED 9:21pm/ET - Force's injuries, according to the ESPN2 broadcast, include a compound fracture of one ankle, a severe abrasion that went all the way to the bone on his knee, a dislocated and broken wrist, and broken fingers with abrasions. In a sign of good news, a CT scan performed on Force turned out...

Drag Racing Stunt Turns Deadly For Fans

A Cars For Kids charity parade event in Selmer, Tenn. (not pictured at right) veered completely off track today when veteran drag racer Troy Critchley fishtailed into the crowd while performing an exhibition burnout.A Tennessee Highway Patrol spokesperson told the AP that six people were killed, including three teenaged...

Background on drag racing

Drag racing is a competition in which specially prepared automobiles or motorcycles compete, usually two at a time, to be the first to cross a set finish line.

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