The excitement of the first season of competition under the new Countdown to the Championship was the talk of the preseason one year ago as teams spent the final month of the off-season testing their cars and announcing new sponsorship deals. By the end of March, the season was in full swing, albeit under a cloud sorrow after the untimely death of super-popular Funny Car star Eric Medlen in a testing accident.
For the next few days, NHRA.com will review the headlines of the 2007 season in quarterly installments. The first three months included NHRA founder Wally Parks' 94th birthday celebration, Roy Johnson's heart attack in Phoenix, and John Force being voted America's top non-NASCAR motorsports driver on SportsIllustrated.com....
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