Happened dean skuza biography

Skuza, 53, has settled into the simpler life of enjoying his family and a life where he's not chasing the NHRA drag racing tour from coast to coast.
Dean Skuza.
My friend Dean is alive and well, did some test driving last year and was supposed to drive this year and some girl was given the seat.

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Ode To Bob Wilber, Former Racing PR Rep Who’s Wrapping Up Book 2

By Susan Wade

So many things these days are just plain weird. But what’s especially weird for many in the drag-racing community is that it has been five years since Bob Wilber decided to stay home in Minnesota and hibernate with his computer and put words to not only the crazy traveling trailerhood that is the NHRA but his life: Bats, Balls, & Burnouts.

He subtitled his book “A Life of Sports, Marketing, and Mayhem.” The mayhem part of Wilber’s life is the one so many of us identify with and cherish. And who better to slog through it all with than this intelligent, fun-loving character who – curiously – was educated at a school named Mary Queen of Peace?

Remember those old small books that showed what was involved with animation – and you’d flip through them super-fast and it would look like a movie? That’s what reading Bob Wilber’s writing is like – each page is so rich with adventure that pretty soon the page-turning becomes furious with suspense . . . but his many followers are

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INTERVIEW WITH DEAN SKUZA – LIFE AFTER THE BIG TIME

Dean Skuza is over drag racing. And, that’s not a knock on the sport.

Skuza, 53, has settled into the simpler life of enjoying his family and a life where he’s not chasing the NHRA drag racing tour from coast to coast. A day of babysitting his grandson Theodore, 2, is more gratifying anyway.

Skuza made a lot of ground with limited resources, winning two national events in his career. He finished in the top ten every season he raced from 1994 through 2003.

He never considered himself a “rockstar” although his tendency to not walk the corporate line made him a people’s champion. Skuza’s pit area was a favorite destination for the rock and roll icons who often visited the NHRA events.

CompetitionPlus.com Editor Bobby Bennett caught up with Skuza to discuss his time as a people’s champion. His outlook on his career and most importantly would he consider a return.

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"You mean like that movie The Fast and the Frivolous? The fact that somebody was programming his computer during the run," Coil snickers. "It amazes me there was that much time, y'know?"

But the wisecrack is just a cover for his underlying frustration with the NHRA. "I'm hoping for a change in the rules to bring the sport into the 20th century, if not the 21st," he concedes, working a toothpick between his gums. "We're not allowed to be as sophisticated as what we drive to the racetrack."

The next day the weather improves – but not for rival racer Skuza. He loses not only his heat, but also his big-money Mopar sponsorship. He's feeling philosophical. I ask him what he thinks about the new drivers in their rice rockets.

"I'm watching these import cars using 10.5-inch tires run like a bat out of hell, and I'm like, 'Holy fug.' That is scary," he says, waving a cigarette. "Those cars are just not designed to do that. That's why we've seen some hellacious crashes, and injuries