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Danny P. Thompson (born October 28, 1948) is an American race car driver and the son of the late motorsports entrepreneur Mickey Thompson. He began his career at age 9, winning his first quarter-midget championship one year later.
Danny first seriously thought about restoring his father's race car, Challenger 2, four years ago, on the 50th anniversary of Mickey's record-breaking run. It had been on his mind for a while, and ...
Thompson’s car—the Challenger, an 8,000-pound, 3,000-horsepower streamliner with four V-8 engines he’d chalked out on the garage floor, then built with his own hands—broke on the return...
17 de ago. de 2016 · See All 37 Photos. With the historic running of Danny Thompson's Challenger 2.5, we are posting this article by Thom Taylor that originally ran in the Sept. 2014 issue of HOT ROD. It gives...
13 de ene. de 2020 · The Challenger 2 Streamliner has sold at auction for $561,000 (£432,000), just over a year after becoming the fastest piston-driven vehicle of all time. Danny Thompson took the Challenger 2 to 448.757mph at the Bonneville Salt Flats, 50 years after his father Mickey attempted the same feat, completing an emotional — and tragic — tale.
4 de ene. de 2020 · A hot-rodder from his California youth—he built his first soapbox racer with a gasoline lawnmower engine—Thompson was an avid drag racer and is credited with inventing the first truly...
13 de ago. de 2018 · Racer Danny Thompson, 69, set a land speed record for piston-powered, wheel-driven cars at the Bonneville Salt Flats on Sunday in a vehicle that his father Mickey first brought to Utah in 1968.
