Their loving father provided the one tribute he knew would be shared by millions of race fans all over the world. He had finally won one for his boys, his two young sons Jon and James, who died in February in an automobile accident. SUNDAY NOTEBOOK - AN EMOTIONAL DAY FOR DRAG RACING AS HERBERT DELIVERSĮMOTIONS RUN RAMPANT - The tears flowed freely as Doug Herbert exited his Top Fuel dragster.

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We bring you the stories behind the numbers and win-lights throughout Stevenson was in good spirits after the wreck and vowed to fix the car and come back swinging.This weekend's NHRA Summit Racing Equipment Nationals by reading our behind-the-scenes event We’re sure Whiteley was never so happy to have an early shut off lap as he was in this situation.

Adding that element to this would have made it very complicated for safety officials and obviously the risk of another driver getting hurt rises exponentially to boot. This was great because had that not happened, Stevenson would have completely collected Whiteley up when he crossed the center line and we would have ad a high speed two car wreck. The truly great thing about this pair is that Steven Whiteley who was opposing Stevenson shook the tires and shut down early. It is Lohnes’s voice you hear on the call. The Stevenson managed to avoid any real direct center-punch style hits and instead suffered a series of glancing blows as the car headed down the track, careening off the walls. Stevenson’s car starts this lap as one of the more beautiful, late model pro mods in the country and it ends as pretty smashed up piece but it certainly was not as bad as it could have been. We showed you Antron Brown’s nasty wreck on Friday, multiple funny car explosions from yesterday, and now they have posted footage of pro mod racer Dan Stevenson’s wild pro mod ride in his 2013 Camaro. We’ve got to give major props to the NHRA’s social media department as they have been cranking out some cool highlight videos of the insane weekend we have been having here in Atlanta.

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