Drag racer realizes dream

Paul Noakes may have to pinch himself right up until his first pass down the quarter-mile in San Antonio, Tex., on April 4.

"You always have a dream and just when you think you've got to let that dream go, someone stands up in front of you and says. 'Here, grab ahold,' " the 39-year-old Londoner said yesterday.

Noakes has been handed his opportunity of a lifetime...
Read full story byJim Pressman in the London Free Press