Herbert returns to racing after tragedy

His sons were killed last month in a car crash, and he's back where he feels relaxed -- behind the wheel of a top-fuel dragster.

Doug Herbert didn't need to post a monster number Thursday. The oversized driver nicknamed "Dougzilla" needed only an uneventful run down the quarter mile at Pomona Raceway for his life to regain some sense of normalcy.

It has been anything but normal since Jan. 26, when Herbert was called away from testing his top-fuel dragster in Phoenix by...

Read the full story in the Los Angeles Times, by Martin Henderson