Sir,<\/p>\n
I read the article on GMC blowers with some interest, but was disappointed to see the car in the photo of the fire burnout was not sporting a blower. It wasn’t even a Top Fuel dragster.<\/p>\n
From what I could see it appeared to be a front-engined Pro Comp\/Sportsman class alcohol car. My credentials for this observation are that I have raced both Top Fuel and Funny Cars and, back in 1976, I defeated reigning Top Fuel world champion Don Garlits with the first five-second run outside the USA, in my dragster Stormbringer.<\/p>\n
I should also point out that fire burnouts were banned many years ago, although I was one of the drivers who really enjoyed providing the spectacle!<\/p>\n
Anyway, it was a good article and refreshing to see Motor Sport broadening its view of motor racing. Keep it up!<\/p>\n
I am, Yours etc,<\/em><\/p>\n Peter Crane, Wych Cross, East Sussex<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"tags":[168,45874,190],"issue_decade":[121591],"issue_year":[121676],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/20815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/issue_content"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/20815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256994,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/20815\/revisions\/256994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20815"},{"taxonomy":"issue_decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_decade?post=20815"},{"taxonomy":"issue_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_year?post=20815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}