Josh Chester flexed his muscles both on and off the track! Chester was a regular on the Don Plemmons-founded Quick-8 Racers Association circuit back in the mid-2000s when the series would tour to area tracks around the Carolinas. <\/p>\n
[Editor\u2019s Note: This story originally appeared in DI #188, the World Series of Pro Mod Issue, in May\/June of 2024.]<\/em><\/p>\n They don\u2019t call this tiny community in North Carolina \u201cFarmington\u201d for nothing, as the old-timey scene and machinery matches the name perfectly. The harvester who\u2019s laboring away in the background paid no mind to the 185-plus-mph doorslammers as they would scream past the finish line, then quietly tow past him on the return road. Plemmons launched the Quick-8 Racers Association in 1990, and the series was a mainstay for the next decade-plus at area tracks. Farmington Dragway was among the very first to host the series after it was launched.\u00a0<\/p>\n Photograph by Van Abernethy This story was originally published on July 26, 2024. <\/p>\n The post Racing Rewind: Farmington Flex<\/a> first appeared on Drag Illustrated<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Josh Chester flexed his muscles both on and off the track! Chester was a regular on the Don Plemmons-founded Quick-8 Racers Association circuit back in the mid-2000s when the series would tour to area tracks around the Carolinas. [Editor\u2019s Note: This story originally appeared in DI #188, the World Series of Pro Mod Issue, in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95054","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Farmington Dragway
Mocksville, North Carolina
Saturday, June 14th, 2008<\/p>\n