Lee Alan Shepherd was an American drag racing driver (born August 30, 1944 - died March 11, 1985). The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Drag racing is a competition in which objects compete to be the first to cross a set finish mark usually from a dead stop and in a straight line He began racing for car owners Reher & Morrison in 1978. The team campaigned Chevy Camaros through most of their career. The Chevrolet Camaro is a " Pony car " made in North America by the Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors. The Arlington, Texas native won the National Hot Rod Association's Pro Stock championship in four consecutive seasons from 1981 to 1984. Arlington is a Suburb of Fort Worth in Tarrant County, Texas ( USA) within the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metropolitan area "NHRA" redirects here For other uses see NHRA (disambiguation. Year 1981 ( MCMLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Year 1984 ( MCMLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar) In 1983, he became the first driver to win both the NHRA and IHRA Pro Stock championships in the same year. He won twenty-six NHRA national events in Pro Stock. In 1985, Shepherd was killed while testing his car in Ardmore, Oklahoma. Year 1985 ( MCMLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar) Ardmore is a business cultural and tourism city in and the County seat of Carter County, Oklahoma, United States.
At the Gatornationals, the next event on the NHRA tour, the qualifiers in Pro Stock lined up on the track before the start of eliminations in a missing man formation. The missing man formation is an aerial Salute performed as part of a flyover of aircraft at a funeral or memorial event typically in memory of a fallen The pole was left open for Lee Shepherd. Reher & Morrison did return later that year with a new driver by the name of Bruce Allen. In 2001, a panel ranked him twelfth in the National Hot Rod Association Top 50 Drivers, 1951-2000. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar.
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