Clinton, MO -- (ReleaseWire) -- 04/07/2017 --"Big Daddy" Don Garlits, from nearby Ocala, Florida is the legendary drag racer with 17 World Championship Titles to his credit and is one of the biggest names in all of racing. The start of the Great Race will be on Main Street in the Historic Springfield section of downtown Jacksonville from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday, June 24. Garlits will have his traveling museum with him that morning and he will send off the racers to Michigan by waving the green flag at 10:30 a.m.
About Garlits: The name "Big Daddy" Don Garlits is synonymous with Drag Racing. In fact Garlits has been dubbed the "King of the Dragsters," and could be considered the patriarch of Top Fuel Drag Racing. Don's High school sweetheart is his wife Pat, however, his first love is the automobile and his passion is winning. His Swamp Rat series of 34 hand fabricated black race cars carried him to 144 national event wins.
"Big Daddy's" living legacy and race car design innovations are so significant that one of his record breaking drag race cars is enshrined in the Smithsonian Museum of American History. Don Garlits began racing in 1950 and scored his first major victory in 1955. His first NHRA National event win came in Top Fuel at the 1963 Winter Nationals in Pomona, CA. Don has won the prestigious NHRA U.S. nationals a record 8 times. His four decades of Drag Racing have filled the pages of seven books.
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