philw@tekcae.UUCP (Philip White) (04/07/84)
Heart Like a Wheel was released several months ago but I just saw it.
It is a film biography of Shirley Muldowny, one of very few female
professional drag racing drivers, and the only person to have won
3 years' NHRA Top Fuel championships. I liked the movie and
found the racing scenes very exciting.
Question on the facts in the movie - did Shirley really set a track
record for the her car's class the first time she broke the beams
at an NHRA event? This is how it was shown in the movie,
but I find it hard to believe. Unless she had run the dragster-bodied car
on the street, it was supposed to be the first pass the car
had ever made.
Sorry to run all this Hot Rod Mag prose past net.movies readers, but there
is no net.sport.auto, as near as I can tell.
Phil White Tektronix, Beaverton, OR, USA
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