Race Against The Clock

“T. V.” Tommy Ivo and Don Garlits of Tampa, Fla., roar off the starting line at the Blaney Drag Strip in Elgin in their “rail” dragsters, but the race is more against the clock than against one another. Both set track records on this run. Ivo with a top speed of 214 miles per hour and Garlits with an elapsed time of 7:05 seconds in covering the quarter mile straightaway.

March 15, 1970  State (published as The State)  
Columbia, South Carolina
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