Don Nicholson
Athlete
1927 – 2006
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Who was Don Nicholson?
Don Nicholson estimates he won 90 percent of his match races. As of 2002, he held the record for the most number of categories in which he reached a final round (won or took second at an event): Funny Car, Pro Stock, Super Stock, Competition Eliminator, Stock, and Street. He was nicknamed "Dyno Don" after he was one of the first drivers to use a chassis dynamometer on his cars in the late 1950s, a skill that he learned while working as a line mechanic at a Chevrolet car dealer.
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- Born
- May 28, 1927
Halltown - Nationality
- United States of America
- Died
- Jan 24, 2006
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on July 23, 2013
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