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Dixon gets it done quickly

By John Schwarb
Special to ESPN.com

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

NHRA: Dixon and Al-Anabi Racing break through at Gatornationals Many of Larry Dixon's watershed moments in NHRA drag racing have come at historic Gainesville Raceway. Eighteen years ago he attended Frank Hawley's driving school at the Florida track and first climbed into an alcohol dragster. Three years later, in 1994, he got his Top Fuel license there. The national record at the time was 4.74 seconds at a quarter-mile; his license-earning time was 4.76. Call it a preview of a driving career ...

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