Hawaii's winningest drag racer, Roland Leong, inducted into Hawaii Sports Hall of Fame:
Good things come from the Hawaiian islands: chocolate-covered macadamia nuts, surfing, and winning racers. Danny Ongais, who raced everything from Top Fuel to F1; John DeSoto, motocross legend; and Roland Leong, famed Funny Car tuner, share more than their island birthplace: as of August 2022, they are now the only wheeled inductees in the Hawaii Sports Hall of Fame.
Leong is the most recent inductee, officially joining the list in 2020, but due to COVID only celebrating the honor on August 25, 2022, when the Hawaii Sports Hall of Fame finally held its much postponed banquet. We were on hand to cheer as Leong took the stage, introduced by his first driver, Don"the Snake" Prudhomme. It was the first time the two men had been in Hawaii together since they met in 1964.
Later that year, Leong was in California, working for a chassis shop and building a top fueler of his own. The first drive didn't go well."I guess I was supposed to only go half track? I didn't know that," says Leong, with the easy cadence of a much-told tale."I didn't know where the parachute handle was, and by the time I found it, I'd driven off the dragstrip. [Engine builder] Keith Black wasn't pleased.
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Hawaii's Winningest Drag Racer, Roland Leong, Inducted into Hawaii Sports Hall of FameThe drag racer and close associate of Don 'The Snake' Prudhomme made his career in California, and raced all over the world, but he always represented his island home.
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