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Red Lund

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Red Lund is a pioneering American gasser drag racer.[1]

Driving a Ford-powered 1932 Ford, he won NHRA's first-ever B/SR (B Street) championship, at Great Bend, Kansas, in 1955.[2] His winning speed was 96.15 mph (154.74 km/h).[3] (His elapsed time was not recorded or has not been preserved.)

He won no other NHRA national gasser championships.[4]

Notes

  1. ^ Davis, Larry. Gasser Wars (Cartech, 2003), p.180.
  2. ^ Davis, p.180.
  3. ^ Davis, p.180.
  4. ^ Davis, p.180-6.

Sources

  • Davis, Larry. ''Gasser Wars, North Branch, MN: Cartech, 2003, p.180-6.