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  • Having already earned his drag-racing license from Frank Hawley's Drag Racing School in Gainesville, FL, Jackson intends to build an actual racing car.

    Dorothy Spears: Matthew Day Jackson: Artist as Stuntman Dorothy Spears 2010

  • Having already earned his drag-racing license from Frank Hawley's Drag Racing School in Gainesville, FL, Jackson intends to build an actual racing car.

    Dorothy Spears: Matthew Day Jackson: Artist as Stuntman Dorothy Spears 2010

  • Courtesy of OGIO At left, a meeting ensues around a table made from a drag-racing tire.

    Daredevil's Delight 2011

  • A native of Trenton, N.J., and the son of a banker, Mr. Stempel fixed cars in a Bloomfield, N.J., garage as a teenager and collected an armload of drag-racing trophies.

    Engineer Ran GM in Dark Early '90s Stephen Miller 2011

  • Having already earned his drag-racing license from Frank Hawley's Drag Racing School in Gainesville, FL, Jackson intends to build an actual racing car.

    Dorothy Spears: Matthew Day Jackson: Artist as Stuntman Dorothy Spears 2010

  • Having already earned his drag-racing license from Frank Hawley's Drag Racing School in Gainesville, FL, Jackson intends to build an actual racing car.

    Dorothy Spears: Matthew Day Jackson: Artist as Stuntman Dorothy Spears 2010

  • Yet this fifth edition of the "Fast and the Furious" franchise gets lots of mileage from a combination of high spirits, scorn for the laws of physics, readily renewable energy and an emphasis on family values—not those of the nuclear family, but of hell-raising, drag-racing outlaws who genuinely care for one another.

    'Five': A Series Wakes Up at the Wheel Joe Morgenstern 2011

  • A: And how about those drag-racing starts — or launches — that require pressing the brake while increasing engine speed with the throttle?

    Tapping Accelerator, Brakes at the Same Time Jonathan Welsh 2010

  • A: And how about those drag-racing starts — or launches — that require pressing the brake while increasing engine speed with the throttle?

    Tapping Accelerator, Brakes at the Same Time Jonathan Welsh 2010

  • A: And how about those drag-racing starts — or launches — that require pressing the brake while increasing engine speed with the throttle?

    Tapping Accelerator, Brakes at the Same Time Jonathan Welsh 2010

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