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Close race benefits everyone involved

By Ron Capps
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, August 18, 2005

Capps It's exciting at this point of the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series Funny Car season, especially coming up to this weekend in Memphis, Tenn. The NHRA changed the schedule around a couple of years ago and put this race before the prestigious U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis on Labor Day. It used to be after Indy. The Memphis race will be sort of in the night because qualifying is after 4 o'clock and final eliminations begin at 3 p.m. on Sunday. You sort of gauge your season at this stage ...

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