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“Hungry for stink”
Genius!
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Arg! What was that Negativland track that mentioned Muldowney? “They call her Cha-Cha!”
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“What’s a pretty girl like you doing in a place like this?”
“Winning.”
Or something to that effect.
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She sounds as badass as Michèle Mouton
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Happy the Harmonica from the “Free” album.
Looks like you’ve selected my music for the day! Thanks!
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I’ve only been to watch drag racing once, but there was a whole team of sisters (plus their dad) racing that day:
Edit: actually, it was the event mentioned above where Courtney Force won that I was at…
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Thank you! Of course that track is getting linked here now.
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I had the privilege of watching Shirley race while growing up.
The amazing thing about her career was how much of it was achieved in “funny cars.”
The “rails” ( the long skinny cars with the massive engine in the back) get the glory, but the true test of a driver is the “funny car” – the drag racing cars that look like a “normal” car with a massive engine popping out of the hood. Funny cars are temperamental beasts. When shit goes south in a funny, it happens fast. In Shirley’s era, top rank funny car drivers came in two varieties: Good and Dead.
Shirley is an absolutely amazing drag racer. She also happens to be a woman.
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“Downey is one of the truest badasses in motorsports history.”
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“Muldowney is one of the…”
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The Orange County International Raceway patch makes it double plus good!
I was thinking, “Would you mind handing me that microphone so I can shove it up your ass?”
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