If you were at Famoso Raceway on March 5, 1961, you witnessed history, although you probably didn't know it. That day a bunch of hayseeds running a comically stumpy Top Fuel dragster rolled off the ...

'We were crowded around the window of glass and chicken wire designed to separate us from flaming chunks of engine shrapnel when Westech's Steve Brul's hand crept toward the little red button on the ...