{"id":90502,"date":"2023-12-01T16:19:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T16:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/movers-shakers-di-184-state-of-drag-issue\/"},"modified":"2024-01-20T23:51:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T23:51:07","slug":"movers-shakers-di-184-state-of-drag-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/movers-shakers-di-184-state-of-drag-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Movers & Shakers: DI #184 State of Drag Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s once again time to check in with all the incredible people that comprise the drag racing community, and the Movers & Shakers featured in the DI #184 State of Drag<\/em> issue include individuals who are making a difference on and off the track.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like we should have won three times this year but had nothing but bad luck. It\u2019s just awesome to get this one.\u201d \u2013 Jason Lee, first-time NHRA Pro Mod winner<\/span><\/p>\n

[Editor\u2019s Note: This story originally appeared in DI #184, the State of Drag Issue, in September\/October of 2023. Photographs by Tara Bowker, Joe McHugh, David Hilner, Roger Pedersen, Van Abernethy, and NHRA]<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n

BEHIND THE LENS: Krista Zivcic, who travels to races across the country filming clients for Corey Michalek\u2019s React104, switches to shooting still photos during the driver autograph session at Summit Motorsports Park\u2019s Night Under Fire.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n

ROLL OUT: PDRA Pro Boost contender Rob Cox eases his ProCharged Cox Trucking Camaro out of the trailer to begin preparing for a full day of qualifying at the PDRA North vs. South Shootout at Maryland International Raceway.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n

BOOSTED BUBBA: South Carolina\u2019s Bubba Greene gets ready to strap into the screw-blown Corvette he now races in PDRA Pro Boost and outlaw Pro Mod events across the South. His brother and crew chief is the one and only Scotty Cannon.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n

MILES\u2019 SMILES: PDRA Pro Jr. Dragster driver Danika Miles and her father, Top Dragster competitor Gabe Miles, snap a photo in the staging lanes before a qualifying pass at a recent PDRA race.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n

SPREADING THE WORD: God Speed Ministry volunteer Tammie Smith spreads messages of love and positivity to drivers and teams in the staging lanes at one of the PDRA\u2019s most recent events.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n

\u2018CHAOS\u2019 FIRST FAMILY: Tera Graves, who works with husband Chris Graves to put on the Funny Car Chaos and Nitro Chaos series, walks the pits at Eddyville with son Levi.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n

FIRST TO THE 3.40S: Past IHRA Funny Car champion Dale Creasy Jr. walks back from the starting line at Chaos in the Cornfield at Eddyville Raceway Park, where he qualified No. 1 in Nitro Chaos competition with a 3.40-second blast at 215 MPH in the eighth mile, marking the first 3.40-second pass by a Funny Car in the series.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n

CONTINUING THE LEGACY: Wayne Hoffman, the son of late Funny Car legend Al Hoffman, gets suited up to make a pass in his \u201cChina Syndrome\u201d Dodge Omni Funny Car at Eddyville. The car is a tribute to his father, who passed away in 2008 before the two could start building a similar car.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n

WHAT\u2019S SO FUNNY?: NHRA Top Alcohol Dragster championship contender Julie Nataas is all smiles as she hangs out in the Eddyville staging lanes with Randy Meyer Racing\u2019s experimental A\/Fuel Funny Car, which she\u2019s driven numerous times. Though the team has parked the car for the season, they\u2019ve made serious progress since its debut in 2022.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n

NITRO SURFER: Jeff Diehl, known as \u201cThe Surfer\u201d when he\u2019s racing his nitro Funny Car on the NHRA Camping World Series tour, checks out the starting line at Eddyville Raceway Park, where he was tuning the \u201cAtomic Punk\u201d nostalgia nitro Funny Car at \u201cChaos in the Cornfield.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n

TRACKING THE TRACK: Lanny Miglizzi, the longtime track specialist for John Force Racing, relies on specialized equipment and years of experience to read the track surface at Pacific Raceways during the NHRA Northwest Nationals.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n

RACING ROYALTY: \u201cPopeye\u201d Pat Musi and Richard \u201cThe King\u201d Petty share a laugh as Musi points out the features of the Edelbrock-Musi 555 crate engine in the \u201cHellcamino\u201d build at Petty\u2019s Garage in Randleman, North Carolina.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n

REAL HARDWARE: Bob Tasca III, the Funny Car winner at the final Menards NHRA Nationals presented by PetArmor at Heartland Motorsports Park, shows off his new Wally to actor Tim Allen during the Ford national dealers convention in Las Vegas. The <\/span>Home Improvement<\/span> star is a notorious gearhead with a huge car collection, including more than a few Fords.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n

RACIN\u2019 RICO: Rico Garner has enjoyed a 50-plus-year career at Piedmont Dragway, beginning with his epic match races with Roy Hill in the early 1970s. In the decades that followed, Garner has racked up five championships at Piedmont, and has also held every position imaginable, including head of security, promoter and announcer. On Big Dog night, he still races a 5.50 Dodge Daytona, and even announces between rounds.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

NITRO YOUNG GUNS: Funny Car drivers Bobby Bode and Blake Alexander pose for a quick photo in the Head Racing pit area. While the Bode family didn\u2019t bring their Illinois-based Funny Car operation on the Western Swing, the second-generation driver tagged along with Alexander and the Head Racing team as a crew member.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The post Movers & Shakers: DI #184 State of Drag Issue<\/a> first appeared on Drag Illustrated | Drag Racing News, Opinion, Interviews, Photos, Videos and More<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s once again time to check in with all the incredible people that comprise the drag racing community, and the Movers & Shakers featured in the DI #184 State of Drag issue include individuals who are making a difference on and off the track.\u00a0 \u201cI feel like we should have won three times this year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,78117,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drag-racing","category-race-pages","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91185,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90502\/revisions\/91185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}