1968's Headline News

Carbone captures his first major title Steve Carbone won his first Top Fuel race, the Hot Rod Magazine Championship Drags in Riverside, Calif. In Top Fuel competition, both Bill Dunlap and Walt Stevens lost fire on the starting line and pushed their cars to the finish line to determine a winner. Garlits claims Springnationals Top Fuel title Don Garlits won the Springnationals at Raceway Park in New Jersey, which was hosting its first ever NHRA national event. Appropriately enough, Garlits won the title, the fourth of his carer, on Father's Day. It's Garlits again at Indy with third win In a feat at the time compared to Babe Ruth's homerun record, Don Garlits won his third Nationals title. Future Pro Stock star Larry Lombardo, just 19 years old, upset hundreds of more experienced competitors for the Stock Eliminator crown. NHRA adds Funny Car to '69 program NHRA's Experimental Stock class of super-lightweight replicas of current-model stock cars equipped with powerful, fuel-burning and supercharged engines got a new name, Funny Car, and became a full-fledged eliminator for the 1969 season.

Warren takes Winternats title on solo New Jersey site to host Springnationals Brown over Garlits at first PDA meet Borsch takes Irwindale Fuel Altered contest World Finals on closed circuit television Monthly Headlines