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Nov

‘Tragic’ crash for Bowdoin driver

Posted by Robert  Published in Racing News

Sitting on the empty drag strip at Moroso Motorsports Park in Jupiter, Fla., "Dyno" Dave Heitzman thought about the Jet Funny Car that racer Christopher Gould was driving when he was killed Sunday along this track.

Gould's Funny Car looked like a car but had a jet engine and ran on jet fuel. Heitzman's Top Alcohol dragster, a 36-foot elongated triangle sitting low to the ground, runs on methananol...

Read the full story by Dianna Cahn in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Tags: crash, Funny Car, motorsports, race

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