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Mike Burkhart
NHRA Hot Rod Race
Denver, Colorado

[photograph: prepares for a run during a NHRA event in July 2003 at Denver. Dodge City native Burkhart was ninth in the nation and 10th in the region in the super gas division.]

Mike Burkhart, Dodge City, KS, prepares for a run during a NHRA event in July 2003 at Denver. Burkhart was ninth in the nation and 10th in the region in the super gas drag race division. Burkhart's car 555-cubic inch engine puts out about 900 horsepower and runs around 153 miles per hour.

Mike Burkhart and John Goemann,
NHRA Drag Racers, Dodge City, KS

Also see: David "Davey" Ross, Jetmore; Flying Farmer, McCarty Speedway, Dodge City, KS
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