Written by: Written by Todd Veney Wed, 2015-06-24 17:32
A generation has come and gone since it was financially feasible for fuel drivers to compete anywhere other than at national events, but 30 years ago,
From Orange County and Irwindale in the Los Angeles area to New England Dragway in New Hampshire, Top Fuel and Funny Car drivers battled, and never was a rivalry better or a bigger draw than Don Garlits vs. Shirley Muldowney.
From Orange County and Irwindale in the Los Angeles area to New England Dragway in New Hampshire, Top Fuel and Funny Car drivers battled, and never was a rivalry better or a bigger draw than Don Garlits vs. Shirley Muldowney. From the mid-1970s until the escalating cost of operating a fuel car made match racing impossible sometime in the mid-1980s, Garlits, the undisputed all-time king of drag racing, and Muldowney, easily the most accomplished female driver in the history of motorsports, locked horns more times than either can remember.
Both had legions of fans. "Big Daddy" has always ranked among the most popular names in drag racing, but maybe some fans – the same kind who always rooted against the New York Yankees and Boston Celtics because they seemed to win the championship every year – wanted to see the underdog prevail. And it goes without saying that every wife and girlfriend in the stands was rooting for the lady driver with the pink car.
They raced so often and at so many venues that there's no way to know who won the most.
"I have no idea," says "Big Daddy."
"I do," Muldowney says. "Me. I won more Read On
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