Description:Chapters: Shirley Muldowney, Ashley Force, Mendy Fry, Angelle Sampey, Erica Enders, Courtney Force, Kitty O'neil, Della Woods. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Shirley Muldowney (nee Roque, born June 19, 1940 in Burlington, Vermont), the "First Lady of Drag Racing," is a pioneer in professional auto racing. She was the first woman to receive a license from the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) to drive a top fuel dragster. She won the NHRA Top Fuel championship in 1977, 1980 and 1982, becoming the first person to win two and three Top Fuel titles. She has won a total of 18 NHRA national events. As Shirley Roque, Muldowney began street racing in the 1950s in Schenectady. "School had no appeal to me. All I wanted was to race up and down the streets in a hot rod," declared Muldowney. When she was sixteen, she married nineteen-year-old Jack Muldowney, who would build her first dragster. It was Jack Muldowney who first taught me how to drive a car. Jack was the mechanic. He was the guy who tuned the cars that let the girl beat all the boys. I was a kid from upstate New York with no guidance, no direction. I was headed for trouble, nothing going for me. Then I found the sport at a very young age and was able to make something out of it. In 1958, the then eighteen-year-old made her debut on the dragstrip of the Fonda Speedway. She obtained her NHRA license in 1965. She competed in the 1969 and 1970 U.S. Nationals in a twin-engine dragster in the Top Gas classification, but with Top Gas losing popularity, switched to Funny Cars, buying her first from Connie Kalitta. Around this time, she and her husband Jack drifted apart. "He didn't want to go nitro racing and we parted, but we stayed friends all those years until he passed away just recently." She w...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=68956We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Female Dragster Drivers: Shirley Muldowney, Ashley Force, Mendy Fry, Angelle Sampey, Erica Enders, Courtney Force, Kitty O'Neil, Della Woods. To get started finding Female Dragster Drivers: Shirley Muldowney, Ashley Force, Mendy Fry, Angelle Sampey, Erica Enders, Courtney Force, Kitty O'Neil, Della Woods, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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32
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2010
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1157496962
Female Dragster Drivers: Shirley Muldowney, Ashley Force, Mendy Fry, Angelle Sampey, Erica Enders, Courtney Force, Kitty O'Neil, Della Woods
Description: Chapters: Shirley Muldowney, Ashley Force, Mendy Fry, Angelle Sampey, Erica Enders, Courtney Force, Kitty O'neil, Della Woods. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Shirley Muldowney (nee Roque, born June 19, 1940 in Burlington, Vermont), the "First Lady of Drag Racing," is a pioneer in professional auto racing. She was the first woman to receive a license from the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) to drive a top fuel dragster. She won the NHRA Top Fuel championship in 1977, 1980 and 1982, becoming the first person to win two and three Top Fuel titles. She has won a total of 18 NHRA national events. As Shirley Roque, Muldowney began street racing in the 1950s in Schenectady. "School had no appeal to me. All I wanted was to race up and down the streets in a hot rod," declared Muldowney. When she was sixteen, she married nineteen-year-old Jack Muldowney, who would build her first dragster. It was Jack Muldowney who first taught me how to drive a car. Jack was the mechanic. He was the guy who tuned the cars that let the girl beat all the boys. I was a kid from upstate New York with no guidance, no direction. I was headed for trouble, nothing going for me. Then I found the sport at a very young age and was able to make something out of it. In 1958, the then eighteen-year-old made her debut on the dragstrip of the Fonda Speedway. She obtained her NHRA license in 1965. She competed in the 1969 and 1970 U.S. Nationals in a twin-engine dragster in the Top Gas classification, but with Top Gas losing popularity, switched to Funny Cars, buying her first from Connie Kalitta. Around this time, she and her husband Jack drifted apart. "He didn't want to go nitro racing and we parted, but we stayed friends all those years until he passed away just recently." She w...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=68956We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Female Dragster Drivers: Shirley Muldowney, Ashley Force, Mendy Fry, Angelle Sampey, Erica Enders, Courtney Force, Kitty O'Neil, Della Woods. To get started finding Female Dragster Drivers: Shirley Muldowney, Ashley Force, Mendy Fry, Angelle Sampey, Erica Enders, Courtney Force, Kitty O'Neil, Della Woods, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.