1985's Headline News

New-look Christmas Tree to debut in '86 A new, streamlined Christmas Tree for 1986 will be shorter and placed farther out from the starting line, and will now feature three amber lights instead of the old standard five. World champ Shepherd dies in testing crash Lee Shepherd, a four-time NHRA Winston Pro Stock World Champion, was fatally injured while testing his race car at Ardmore Raceway in Oklahoma March 11. Record-breaking inaugural Keystone Nationals Records were shattered at the inaugural running of the Keystone Nationals, where Don Garlits (Top Fuel), Tim Grose (Funny Car), and Bruce Allen (Pro Stock) scored event titles at famed Pennsylvania raceplant Maple Grove Raceway. Snow, Collins, NHRA score firsts in Arizona Gene Snow scored his first national event Top Fuel title, John Collins kept John Force a bridesmaid, and Bob Glidden scored his 46th Pro Stock win at the inaugural Fallnationals, the first NHRA national-event action in Arizona since the rain-delayed 1955 Nationals were completed there.

Garlits has another close call Sportsman All-Stars program announced Muldowney announces comeback plans for 1986 Entire 1986 schedule to be televised All Top Fuel fields expanded to 16 cars Monthly Headlines