The First Time You Smelled NIitro? Where ? When ?
Current Drag Racing
CH3NO2! Probably at my very first drag race, the grand opening of the Houston Drag Raceway (midway between Houston and Galveston), in June of 1957. I was sixteen, and spending the summer with my father that year. While I can't say for sure if I actually smelled nitro at that event (not having a clue what it might be, if, indeed, I did smell it), I know there were a good number of nitro-fueled cars at that race. I do know, without a doubt, that I got a good whiff of it at York, in August of '60, when Garlits first warmed his motor prior to a series of three exhibition singles he made that evening.
