C. J. “Pappy” Hart – A true legend in drag racing who helped to literally form the sport. First, by creating and running the Santa Ana Drags, the country’s first commercial drag strip. He went on to manage the most famous drag strip of all time, Lions in the 60’s and after his retirement, was called back into action by NHRA to help run the Safety Safari. “Pappy,” got his nickname as he was always older than most and was the “caretaker” of Lions and earlier, Santa Ana drag strips. Bob Muravez was dubbed Floyd Lippencotte, Jr. by Steve Gibbs and Mel Reck in November of 1963. Bob Muravez started driving professionally in 1961 for the John Peters and Frank Quincy Automotive Special, a twin engine gas dragster, later to be known as The Freight Train, that ran 185 MPH in 8.50 seconds. In 1967 Muravez drove The Freight Train to a new speed record of 200.44 MPH at Lions dragstrip - the first Gas dragster ever to go over 200 MPH, winning the UDRA Championship and setting an ET record of 7.31.