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RULES RULED; NHRA teams scrambled to cope with changes implemented after the crash that killed Darrell Russell.(News)

AutoWeek,  December, 2004  

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Byline: BILL STEPHENS The 2004 NHRA POWERADE season was one in which rule books and record books kept running into each other. For the first time in memory, midseason changes in the rule books of all four professional categories helped prop up the championship aspirations of some teams and effectively ended the title hopes of others.

In Top Fuel, the death of Darrell Russell at the Sears Craftsman Nationals in St. Louis in June set off a chain reaction of technical mandates that touched off deeply divided debates on the relative safety of Top Fuel cars and whether or not the ...

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