Auto Racing Daily found Fortuna native Hillary Will, fastest drag-racing woman ever, pining for vrooom and the sweet scent of dragster gas after she’d spent a rare weekend off over Memorial Day watching other people drive at NASCAR’s Coca-Cola 600 in North Carolina.
“Being there made me miss the smell of nitro and the sound of an 8,000-horsepower race car,” she told ARD.
She’ll be back in the seat of her KB Racing, LLC Top Fuel dragster this weekend for the O’Reilly NHRA Summer Nationals in Topeka.
This article appears in All The Pieces.
Nitromethane? Sweet? Heidi, I’ll give you $5 coupon for some Bon-Bons if you stand by a nitromethane burning race car and you stand by calling nitro burning smell “sweet”
Gearheads are weird like that, some enjoy the eye watering, burning nose, my throat is on fire feeling you get with a nitro burner, some enjoy the scent of two stroke oil with leaded fuel, and some even enjoy the faux two-stroke scream of a Wankel engine getting the piss flogged outta it.
You’re on, ‘Mous. I won’t refuse les Bon-Bon, and ’tis easy to say a sarcastic “sweet” no matter the circumstance (hint). Enjoyed the scented-engine imagery.