Lucas Oil co-founder Forrest Lucas joined a long list of drag racing greats with his induction into the International Drag Racing Hall of Fame on Thursday night at the Paramount Plaza Hotel & Conference Center. Lucas was part of the 2014 class of Hall of Fame members that also included John Abbott, Al Bergler, Frank Hawley, Tom Hoover, and Warren Johnson. A banquet was held in their honor Thursday night.
Morgan Lucas will carry a different mind-set into this weekend's NHRA Gatornationals at Auto-Plus Raceway at Gainesville when he returns to drag racing behind the wheel of the Lucas Oil/GEICO Top Fuel dragster. The nine-time national event winner stepped away from full-time racing in 2014 to tend to his growing family and the family business, but Lucas, 30, is first and foremost a drag racing fan, and he'll race six or seven times this season to fulfill his passion.
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Chevrolet ran two identical passes and another within six-thousandths of a second during qualifying for the Circle K NHRA Winternationals this weekend at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona.
Richie Crampton has been a busy man since last making a pass in NHRA competition in the GEICO/Lucas Oil Top Fuel dragster.
After the race in Phoenix, the team had a successful test, and then Crampton headed to his home country of Australia for a week.
Lucas Oil Products co-founder Forrest Lucas will be inducted into the International Drag Racing Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2014 in a banquet on March 13 in Gainesville, Fla. The Lucas Oil Products International Drag Racing Hall of Fame Induction Banquet will take place at the Paramount Plaza Hotel & Suites on the Thursday before the NHRA Gatornationals at Auto-Plus Raceway in Gainesville.
