Indeed, it is difficult to choose a different path, if a child you simply did not see another life. Life without bluish clouds of smoke from burned slicks, glued strips, close the paddock and endless trips around the country from one Event to another. For more than half a century NHRA was formed more than one dynasty of riders, and often parents and children today are found in the same race. Today's material will be devoted to those who continued the work of their parents. More precisely the time when they did that only could dream about it.
1. The first comes to mind, of course, John Force, who with his words always dreamed about his son, but eventually was forced to work with what happened. Picture taken at the NHRA Winternationals in 1993. Force the old man with his wife, Laurie, and three daughters: Brittany, Courtney and Ashley (left to right). All three girls are the clearest proof that the best way to prove that «women can too.» This is not the rallies with banners, and the victory over the men on their native territory. Currently senior Ashley departed from affairs, and Courtney and Brittany have without exaggeration all the chances for the title this season.
2. The first row in the family class Pro Stock. Ten-champion Bob Glidden with sons. Billy (left) and Rusty (right) learned the basics of drag racing at an early age from the inside, helping his father to turn nuts and soaking up all the wisdom of the race in a straight line. At the moment, Billy participates in NHRA J & A Pro Mod Series and occupies sixth place in the standings. Championship title in this year's talented offspring legend seventies and eighties hardly shines, but from year to year Glidden Jr. appears more confident and more confident.
3. Young Vincent Nobile with his father (center) in the early nineties. Vincent surpassed his dad for most wins at the event of the national championship (currently 9), and became the youngest driver to win the K & N Horsepower Challenge. At that time, the rider was only 20 years old. This year, Vincent kept steadily in the top 5 that in the context of the overwhelming superiority of the three pilots KB Racing is an outstanding result even against the more famous participants. If it is before the end of the season does not slow down, then with great probability this year will be the best in his career. However, his teammate and two-time champion Eric Enders Stephens is now vengeance is struggling not to fly out of the top ten, while Vincent is almost the only one who draws on himself the intrigue of the championship in recent years.
4. Scott Kalitta was born to become a pilot nitromethane monster. The future two-time champion, who won 18 victories on the most prestigious stages dregovoy series, back in 1964, barely learned to walk, already trying on the role of the rider, climbing into the slingshot-dregster his father Connie. A great example of what the future was destined sooner than the child come to understand fully what is happening around.
5. Long before the lead team of the legendary Don Prudhomme three league titles and 62 victories in a series of stages, Larry Dixon entertained with toys, issued by the Bureau of Hot Wheels, which at that time, and sponsored Prudhomme as he unilaterally decide the fate of the championships in seventies. Supplier of machines for the future champion, of course, was his father.
6. The most productive family contract in the class Pro Stock, of course, is a tandem Warren Johnson and his son Kurt, which account for nearly 137 victories in total. Unfortunately, Johnson Jr. could not fully replicate the success of his father, he is still the leader in the number of won Event at the division. Picture taken in 1974. At that time, Warren has not yet opened his account wins and Kurt to wait at least another six years to obtain a driver's license. Steeper them only Force older daughters from a bed, and that is largely because there is no one cooler Force, and did not anticipate in the near future.
7. the Grey family in 1993. Father John and elder son Shane pushed dregster, which climbed youngest son Jonathan. Later, both will participate in the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series at the wheel of cars Pro Stock. Not to say that at the stages of the championship, both Gray-junior shine like unto a star, but at the moment the engines produced by Gray Motorsports constitute serious competition propulsion KB Racing, and on the account of Jonathan current record in the class Pro Modified, which before his arrival in the division remained indestructible for five years.
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