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Jerry Bonkowski. Published June 11, 2018 01:07 PM. Legendary Funny Car and Top Fuel racer Tom "The Mongoose" McEwen passed away Sunday at the age of 81. McEwen had been beset by health issues in recent years, including a battle with colon cancer for the last several months, but no immediate cause of death has been given.
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Tom "the Mongoose" McEwen, one of the iconic figures in drag racing history, died June 10. He was 81. McEwen, voted No. 16 on NHRA's Top 50 Drivers lists in 2001, competed in both Funny Car.
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Tom "Mongoose" McEwen upsets Don "The Snake" Prudhomme in the final to win his first U.S. Nationals title in 1978. This was a very emotional moment for both.
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Prudhomme and McEwen burst onto the drag racing scene in the mid-1960s and developed one of the most publicized rivalries in the sport's history. Prudhomme earned his "Snake" nickname early in his career for his inherently quick starting-line reflexes. McEwen's nickname, "the Mongoose," was a bit of showmanship Tom used to entice racing fans.
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Over a drag racing career that spanned nearly four decades, Tom "The Mongoose" McEwen won just five NHRA national events, yet still established himself as one of the best-known drivers in the sport's history. It's no exaggeration to say that his skill at promotion reshaped drag racing, attracting high-dollar sponsorships and catapulting it from.
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NHRA/ National Dragster. Don "The Snake" Prudhomme is heartbroken following the death Sunday of best friend, business partner and racing rival Tom "The Mongoose" McEwen. "Tom was like a brother to me," Prudhomme told MotorSportsTalk in an exclusive interview Tuesday morning. "We fought, argued like hell, and we laughed like hell.
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11 Jun 2018. Phil Burgess, NHRA National Dragster Editor. News. Drag racing Tom "the Mongoose" McEwen passed way June 10. Here's a brief look back at some of the highlights of his long and.
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Tom McEwen (January 14, 1937 - June 10, 2018) was an American drag racer who was a winner of the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) U.S. Nationals. [clarification needed] His racing career spanned 45 years.He is ranked at number 16 on a list of the 50 most significant drivers of NHRA's first 50 years. Starting as an owner-driver, he received the nickname "the Mongoose" in 1964 from engine.
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7 Photos. Sad news struck the drag racing community this morning with the passing of legendary drag racing personality Tom "The Mongoose" McEwen. He was 81 years-old. Though he may not have had.
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Although the Sunday death of Tom "the Mongoose" McEwen at age 81 reverberated throughout the sport of drag racing, it hit few harder than it did John Force, the 16-time NHRA Funny Car champion.
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His driving career spanned nearly four decades and the gamut of drag racing entries from the hot-wired Olds to fuel dragsters and funny cars sponsored by Fortune 500 companies. After winning a match race over Don, "The Snake" Prudhomme in 1964, his car owner, the late Ed Donovan recalling Kipling's "Jungle Book," nicknamed McEwen "The Mongoose."
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Snake and Mongoose raced each other only once in 1966, at the Winternationals, and Prudhomme won, 7.59sec ET to 7.69. Largely due to McEwen confining his activities to drag-racing heartland.
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Frank Baney, son of 1960s drag racing entrepreneur and car owner Lou Baney, reminisced about McEwen's involvement with his dad's cars. "The best thing about Tom was just being around him.
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Snake and Mongoose raced each other only once in 1966, at the Winternationals, and Prudhomme won, 7.59sec ET to 7.69. Largely due to McEwen confining his activities to drag-racing heartland, Southern California and some other western venues, the pair would not again cross swords until the 70s.
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Drag racing icon Tom "The Mongoose" McEwen passed away Sunday, June 10, 2018, at 81 years old. While his win over Don "The Snake" Prudhomme at the 1978 U.S. Nationals highlighted his five NHRA national event wins over the course of his career as a driver in Top Fuel and Funny Car, McEwen earned his "legend" status through his advanced promotional skills.
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Photo courtesy NHRA/National Dragster. One of drag racing's all-time greats and its most mainstream stars, Tom "the Mongoose" McEwen, passed away on Sunday evening, June 10, at his home at the age of 81. Entering the sport in 1953, McEwen competed in and around the early strips of Southern California, later progressing from gas-powered.
