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Archive for February, 2009

Tony Pedregon for FOXSports.com!

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Great news race fans!

Tony has become a special celebrity guest blogger for FOXSports.com! Now you can get the inside scoop from a professional NHRA driver and champion as he reflects on previous races and prepares for races ahead, all while balancing his family life. Click on the links below to read his first two entries kicking off the season:

The fast lane: Back behind the wheel at Pomona

Looking forward to dry weather in Phoenix

Check back for Tony’s latest news throughout the rest of the season!

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Looking forward to dry weather in Phoenix

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Now that we have our first race of the season behind us, we are focusing on our second stop this weekend in Phoenix. It’s great to see a good forecast after the wet weekend we had in Pomona. Unfortunately, a supercharged, nitro-burning funny car and rain don’t go well together. Unlike other forms of racing, we can’t put on rain tires. Traction is a key to success in the sport of drag racing. Can’t forget we need traction to slow down at the end of a 300-mph run.

Read more at Fox Sports

The fast lane: Back behind the wheel at Pomona

Friday, February 6th, 2009

As we head west to the first race of the 2009 season in Pomona this weekend, it will be a year since I’ve had my 300 mph explosion at this event.

Naturally, I’m being asked if it bothers me to go back after an incident where I caught on fire and landed on every news channel because of it. To be honest, I never thought twice about getting back in the car. I believe mentally, race car drivers are like athletes in the way they think. I don’t believe we’re daredevils. Race car drivers…. (Read the rest of the story at Fox News)


 

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