More surgery for F/C driver Dale Creasy

One of the Agent’s favorite golf partners, indie Fuel Coupe driver and team owner Dale Creasy is still being operated on following his injury in an non-crash incident while racing at the IHRA event in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on July 4th. A drive train failure caused massive injuries to the defending IHRA Fuel Funny Car driver’s legs and he has had a series of operations following that accident.

He has had two operations in the last week (for a total of seven), but is showing steady improvement, and plans to attend the IHRA season finale in Rockingham, NC, Oct. 17-19.

The DRO staff’s best wishes for a speedy recovery go out to our pal Dale (Peanut) Creasy.  (DRO file photo by Al Booten) [10/7/2008]

Another AA/FC in the works?

Former AHRA Top Fuel team owner Guy Castor says he is teaming up with chassis builder Ty Baumgartner and Englishman-turned-Yank Funny Car racer Norm Wilding. Baumgartner told the Agent he had a new “old style” chassis completed at his Missouri shop and Castor says he has enough parts lying around to bolt an engine together. Wilding will drive and paint the car. Castor was the first Alaskan Top Fuel racer to make a five-second/200mph pass on an Alaska dragstrip. [10/7/2008]

Pomona top end trap gets some improving

Passing by “Parker Avenue” at the Pomona home track for NHRA, we see that crews are hard at work on top-end safety improvements. We’ve had no official word as to what work is being done, but kudos to NHRA for making the commitment to racer safety.  (Joel Gelfand photos) [10/7/2008]