Honouring those who built the sport
The British Drag Racing Hall Of Fame honours and preserves for all time the achievements of not only some of the greatest legends of British Drag Racing, but also the great contribution of others who are very rarely in the spotlight, but nevertheless have made a lasting impact and significant difference to the development of British Drag Racing
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Those honored for inclusion into the Hall of Fame receive a 'Bootsie', a quality crystal tablet encapsulating an image of the late Allan 'Bootsie' Herridge, a man who put so much into British Drag Racing, together with an exclusive gold enamelled commemorative pin badge.
Barry Sheavills has been part of UK drag racing since 1970 and there are not many four wheel classes in which he has not competed..........
Dave Lee Travis spent most of the 1970s driving a Chevrolet powered Escort called Tender Trap that ran 10s and a Top Fuel Dragster called The Needle.................
From the early 1970's to present day Frank, Phil and Alex Brachtvogel's names have been associated with drag racing......
The name Tony Murray crops up regularly in the history of drag racing in the North of England...........
An enthusiast for all types of motor sport, American Carl Olson started to visit drag race events as a spectator during the mid-1950s................
Pete Crane's introduction to straight-line acceleration came in the early sixties when his interest in bikes led him to meet bike sprinter Bill Bragg........
In 1973 Terry Gibbs bought a 1967 Chevy Corvette Roadster.......
Early drag racers will know the name Brian Sparrow........
Pete was born in 1944 in Crick, Northamptonshire, where he still lives.......
The World Series at Santa Pod in September 1980 saw the largest ever entry of nitro Funny Cars in one place outside the USA.......
"King" Harold Bull was first introduced to Drag Racing.......
Geof Hauser first discovered Drag Racing in the pages
The name Al O'Conner first appeared......
Peter Bartlett's part in British Drag Racing History......
At the Santa Pod Internationals in 1972......
John Bennett joined the British Hot Rod........
There can have been few people........
Alf Hagon began his racing career on grasstrack........
Stephen Murty was one of a band........
Norwegian Rune Fjeld first raced in England........
The legendary Bootsie whose image the Hall of Fame features and after whom the trophy is named...........
Without any doubt the Phelps family.........
Phil has a long record of service to the sport, starting out as a racer in Sportsman and then becoming a race official........
Dennis Priddle is one of the names which immediately springs to mind when you think of British drag racing's past........
John Ledster was a big man in every sense of the word. He was of course physically a big man, he was a big family man........
Another member to have been involved in the sport since its inception........
Tony Densham was involved in drag racing from........
Roz started racing in the ex-Age Machine after husband Dave could not fit comfortably in the car........
Dennis Stone got hooked on Drag Racing........
Clive began his drag racing career in 1967, and won the Street Eliminator class at the Santa Pod Big Go driving an E Type Jag........
Sydney Allard was a Ford dealer who in the years before the Second World War produced his own 'Allard Specials'........
John Hobbs' racing career began in 1966 in the long-established sport of sprinting....
Nobby Hills has been involved in drag racing since the sport started in Europe in the 1960s........
Custom Car magazine was first published in March 1970 and to the drag racing deprived fans of the era was a breath of fresh air........
The first Overseas member of the British Drag Racing Hall of Fame. The Godfather Ton Pels has been racing since 1970........
Brian Johnson started competing in 1976 when he and wife Ann bought a 750 cc single cam Honda........
The Page Brothers Clive, David and Gary began their drag racing........
Team Readspeed started in 1972 with Jim Read's first foray into the world of drag racing, in a slingshot dragster called Auto Frog........
To talk about Alan Wigmore is to talk about the National Drag Racing Club........
The legendary rocket drag racer Sammy Miller raced Fuel Dragsters and Funny Cars before switching to rockets in 1974........