Local Dragster Beats National Speed Record (Simcoe.com)

On a picture perfect October afternoon in Rockingham, North Carolina, a crowd numbering in the thousands piles around a track that's been known to make or break the dreams of many drag racers who dared to unleash their motorized steeds on the quarter-mile track.

Through a liquid wall of heat escaping the rubber-stained asphalt, there, at the starting line of the quarter-mile track, sit two drivers...

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