Legendary drag racer and team owner Raymond Beadle passed away Monday following a heart attack, at the age of 70. Beadle gained fame as the owner-driver of the "Blue Max" Funny Cars in which he won ...

WACO, Texas (AP) Raymond Beadle, a three-time NHRA Funny Car world champion and a championship NASCAR team owner, has died. He was 70. The NHRA said Beadle died Monday at Baylor University Medical ...

Back in the late 1970s, the NHRA Funny Car championship was the backyard of a team called Blue Max. Raymond Beadle is the man who set the team up and also drove for it, and he did it so successfully ...

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