IHRA has a rich history and we at the World Headquarters wanted to find out who out there knows this history better than anyone else. Consider this your IHRA final exam. These 20 questions will test your knowledge of IHRA events both recent and not-so-recent. Be the first to answer all 20 questions correctly and win a great IHRA prize package. This prize package will include hats, t-shirts, mugs, decals, patches and all kinds of other stuff we have sitting in the back room. To win you must be the first person to email Mike Perry the correct answers to all 20 questions at mperry@feldinc.com.

Employees of IHRA and Feld Motor Sports are not eligible, nor are certain members of the media who probably could rattle off the answers to these questions off the top of their heads (yes, I'm talking about you Bobby Bennett). In the event no one can correctly answer all 20 questions by 1/15/2009 the entry with the most correct answers will be declared the winner. Please, only one entry per person. Be sure to include a current phone number and email address with your answers. The winner will be notified via email or phone call and be sure to keep an eye on nitrojam.com to find out if the contest has been won. There will also be prizes awarded to the second and third-place entries. Happy Holidays and MERRY CHRISTMAS from everyone here at IHRA!

THE TEST

1. This driver was the first female driver in drag racing history to advance to a professional final round.

A - Hillary Will
B - Shirley Muldowney
C - Bunny Burkett
D - Melanie Troxel

2. This driver finished almost 5,000 points ahead of Wayne Gapp to claim the 1976 IHRA Pro Stock world championship.

A – Ronnie Sox
B – Roy Hill
C – Lee Edwards
D – Bob Glidden

3. This driver has won the most IHRA professional world championships, securing seven career titles.

A – Clay Millican
B – Scotty Cannon
C – Mark Thomas
D – Laurie Cannister

4. This two-time sportsman world champion won the 2004 Stock title.

A – Michael Beard
B – Monty Bogan Jr.
C – Craig Marshall
D – Scott Stillings

5. This driver set the IHRA Top Fuel ET world record by posting a 4.484 at Rockingham Dragway in 2005.

A – Clay Millican
B – T.J. Zizzo
C – Andrew Cowin
D – Bobby Lagana Jr.

6. This driver defeated Jack Ostrander in the final round to claim the Top Fuel Ironman at the 1993 Coca-Cola / WCYB-TV5 Spring Nationals at Bristol International Dragway.

A – Pat Dakin
B – Doug Herbert
C – Bruce Larson
D – Richard Langson

7. In 1986 this driver captured the first-ever IHRA Alcohol Funny Car world championship.

A – Mark Thomas
B – Greg Moss
C – Bob Newberry
D – Bunny Burkett

8. This driver currently holds the IHRA Nitro Funny Car quarter-mile ET world record, a 4.841 set at Maryland International Raceway in 2006.

A – Bob Gilbertson
B – Jeff Diehl
C – Dale Creasy Jr.
D – Gary Densham

9. In 1991 this driver defeated Tommy Johnson Jr. in the final round to win the Top Fuel Ironman at the season-opening IHRA All Pro Winter Nationals in Darlington.

A – Gene Snow
B – Eddie Hill
C – Kenny Bernstein
D – Wayne Bailey

10. Clay Millican holds the IHRA record for most career professional national event victories with 51. This driver holds the record for most career sportsman national event victories with 59.

A – Dave Elrod
B – Gary Bingham
C – Anthony Bertozzi
D – Curtis Smith

11. This driver became the first junior dragster alumni to win a professional world championship in the nitro classes.

A – Dale Creasy Jr.
B – Clay Millican
C – Terry Haddock
D – Spencer Massey

12. These three drivers are all tied for the fourth-most career sportsman national event victories.

A – Monty Bogan Jr., Rusty Cook and Dennis Mitchell
B – Rusty Cook, Bob Marshall and Dan Fletcher
C – Craig Marshall, Scott Stillings and Aaron Allison
D – Monty Bogan Jr., Dennis Mitchell and Mike Boyles

13. This driver won back-to-back IHRA Pro Stock world championships in 2002 and 2003.

A – Frank Gugliotta
B – Brian Gahm
C – John Nobile
D – Steve Spiess

14. This driver won his first-career Top Fuel Ironman by defeating Clay Millican in the final round at the 2006 Mopar Canadian Nationals in Grand Bend.

A – Jeff O’Neill
B – Terry McMillen
C – John “Doc” Sipple
D – Bobby Lagana Jr.

15. At that same event, the 2006 Canadian Nationals in Grand Bend, this driver claimed his first career IHRA Nitro Funny Car Ironman.

A – Terry Haddock
B – Jack Wyatt
C – Dale Creasy Jr.
D – Bob Gilbertson

16. Gary Densham defeated Doug Kalitta in the Nitro Funny Car final round at the 2006 Suzuki Motor City Nationals in Milan, Mich. Neither driver posted the low NFC ET of the event. Who did?

A – Del Worsham
B – Bob Gilbertson
C – Jack Wyatt
D – Dale Creasy Jr.

17. This sportsman driver has 18 career national event victories. He was also the 1974 IHRA Super Stock World Champion. Who is he?

A – Roy Johnson
B – Bob Marshall
C – Dick Sperry
D – Terry Taylor

18. This father-son combo both finished in the top 10 in the same class last season.

A – Ron and Nick Folk
B – Dean and Cary Goforth
C – Ron and Brian Folk
D – B and C

19. This driver holds the IHRA Pro Modified eighth-mile ET record, 3.945, set in Cayuga during the 2007 season.

A – Carl Spiering
B – John Russo
C – Scott Cannon Jr.
D – Glen Kerunsky

20. This IHRA official won the 2005 Lincoln Hackim Award for Excellence in Sports Journalism.

A – Aaron Polburn (yeah, right)
B – Mike Baker (give me a break)
C – Clyde “Spook” Peake (could never get over his University of South Carolina bias to become an effective sportswriter).
D – Mike Perry (who, by the way, put this test together)