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Professional drag racing doesn't offer much in the way of fringe benefits or job security, but at least the hourly pay is difficult to beat. Last year, for exactly 46 minutes of racing, Bill ("Grumpy") Jenkins got $260,000 (including $110,000 for commercial endorsements). Barring an accident, his wage rate this year -roughly $5,650 a minute-will be about the same...
...small (5 ft. 4 in.), balding troll of a man with a porcupine persona, Jenkins, 42, dominates a sport usually associated with big bruisers in black leather. Last year he won ten of the eleven major national drag races in the pro-stock class. At the American Hot Rod Association meet in St. Louis two months ago, he thundered down the quarter-mile strip in 8.97 sec., an all-time record. Ten days later in Epping, N.H., he clocked 8.93 sec. He only placed second last week at the N.H.R.A. world-championship meet in Amarillo, Texas, but Jenkins is still...
...Business. Neither the pursuit of records nor the fact that he is the most successful driver in the 22-year his tory of organized drag racing seems to elate him. "It's really a business," Jenkins snarls from behind his cigar. "I enjoy the development work on the cars as much as the actual racing...
Once a semilicit pastime for thrill-seeking high school kids, drag racing has become big business since 1951, when Wally Parks, a former racing driver, founded the N.H.R.A. and held its first meet on an abandoned airstrip in Madera, Calif. Last year the organization sanctioned 2,930 races at 150 tracks, drawing more than 4,000,000 paying spectators...
...lawyers, Agnew said, advised him that a legal battle over the charges facing him could drag on for years. He said he feared that "intense media interest in the case would distract public attention from other matters of public importance...