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make as many time-runs possible in the same amount of time every time. It’s like the NASCAR qualifiers.”
A native of Warrenton, Duncan, 38, has been racing since he was 19.
“I was raised in a farm,” he said, “and was always interested in tractors, motors and engines. My friends, like Joe Grimsley [of Joe’s Service Center], were also into cars.”
After graduating from Fauquier High School in 1977, Duncan took up tinkering with cars as a profession — he started working in garages.
He raced for the first time in 197980 in his “souped-up street cqr” at the Sumerduck dragway. “I didn’t win anything — I was young,” he smiled.
That was the beginning of a successful racing career that Duncan is still pursuing.
Apart from winning the Sumerduck Championship three to four times in a row between 1984 and 1987, Duncan won the NHRA (National Hot Rod Association) Southeast Division II runner-up trophy in 1985.
“Thirty tracks between Maryland and Florida are judged in the NHRA Southeast Division II race,” Duncan said. “The top drivers race against each other for an overall champion.”
In 1989, Duncan, along with six other racer friends, went to Puerto Rico to race.
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