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    WILD AT HEART

    Sep 11, 2019 4 minutes
    VICTOR BRAY

    WELL, just when you think you’ve seen and heard it all in drag racing, something comes along and makes you shake your head in disbelief.

    Let me back-trackto last month when Italked about the meeting at US131 Motorsports Park in Michigan, where a 19-year-old young gun from Florida took out the first prize of US$500,000 – the biggest payday in drag racing. Well, blow me down; it’s just been announced there’s a meeting at Memphis International Raceway planned for May 2020 that will pay US$1 million to the winner. It costs US$3000 to enter and the field will be capped at 450. If you do the maths, 3000 times

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