Four legends took the stage at the SEMA Show's NHRA Breakfast, Wednesday, November 2, at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino Paradise Events Center.
The popular event, which has been a staple of the SEMA Show for more than 20 years, featured NHRA legends Don Prudhomme, Richard Tharp, Lee Beard and Frank Hawley coming together to discuss a thrilling topic: “Bent Rules, Bailed Fists and Drag Strip Battles.”
The SEMA Show NHRA Breakfast featured NHRA legends Don Prudhomme, Richard Tharp, Lee Beard and Frank Hawley coming together to discuss “Bent Rules, Bailed Fists and Drag Strip Battles.”
For the fourth time, NHRA on FOX announcer Brian Lohnes served as the panel moderator. He asked probing questions about some of the most amazing battles in NHRA history, and what it took for each legend to succeed.
“The SEMA breakfast is one of the highlights of my year. With more than 1,000 NHRA fans jammed into the room at SEMA, the fun always flies,” Lohnes said. “We had Don Prudhomme, Richard Tharp, Lee Beard and Frank Hawley on the stage to tell stories of battling on the track, battling in the pits, bending the rules and bending the law.”
Don “The Snake” Prudhomme is a championship-winning driver and team owner and is regarded as a true icon in the sport, while Tharp was one of the sport’s most colorful figures while he won races and championships. Beard’s magnificent career as a crew chief spanned more than three decades, as he racked up 50-plus victories and world championships, and Hawley was a top-tier driver and one of the great minds in the sport as well, racing to a pair of world championships and multiple race wins.