If you listened to the weather forcast and stayed away from Shakespeare County Raceway's NSRA Nostalgia Nationals you've missed a fantastic day of non stop action here today.
Star of the show for me was British drag racing HoF member and all round drag hero John Hobbs.
John was riding 3 bikes, the Olympus copy, The Hobbit and Shotgun.
On his first pass on Olympus the bike launched skywards but John nailed on when it came down to a great 13 sec blast
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On the Hobbit he stormed the track to a time of 8.51 @ 156mph, his quickest ever at this track
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On his last pass of the day on Shotgun he ran an excellentlent 10.3@137mph when at the stripe one of the forks gave way giving John the ride of his life as the fought to stay on the bike, luckly John manged to stop the bike safely but told me after he was just about to bail off when he gained control and it was also one of the scariest rides in his long career.
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Joe Bond done another fantistic job of driving when the car shook it's butt of but Joe nailed it and snaked up the 1320 to a fantastic 6.8 blast.
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Norm thought he was at Bakersfield.
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Flathead legend Ken Cooper's lovely slingshot made it's debut with his son driving.
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Tony made his debut in the Cunning Coupe that look stunning, well done Tony.
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Dick ran the Horn down to a 9.5
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