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Torrence Owns Kalitta In Top Fuel (Barely)
Steve Torrence outran Doug Kalitta in one of the elimination runs ever seen at Sunday’s NHRA Midwast Nationals. When all was said and done Torrence delivered a 3.684-second pass against Kalitta’s 3.698. The effort was good enough to take the win while notching his eighth Wally of 2017.
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Though it has grown into a global sports-entertainment business, NHRA has not lost sight of Parks’ original goal: to provide competitors a place to race. But now those places are deluxe supertracks in major U.S. markets, and the racing runs the gamut from 10,000-horsepower Top Fuel dragsters to five-horsepower Jr. Dragsters. Drag racing’s journey through the decades has been sometimes swift, sometimes rocky, but always exciting and always worth the trip. In the 1950s, top performance marks were 140 mph in nine seconds. Today, they’re more than 330 mph in less than 3.7 seconds. Back then, winners earned little more than a trophy and bragging rights. Today’s racers in the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series compete for trophies and bragging rights as well as a share of more than $3 million in prize money.
