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Dinner with Racers

Ep.306 – Don Prudhomme

Dinner with Racers

Dinner with Racers

Automotive, Sports, History, Leisure

5896 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

The Snake! Along with previous guests like Don Garlits, Don Prudhomme is one of the pioneers of the modern drag racing scene, coming from modest means in California’s San Fernando valley to one of the staple characters of the NHRA as the series grew. Critical to drag racing history, Don is best known as part […]

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0:00.0

So Steve McQueen's stand-in.

0:01.7

Tommy Ivo's used poor kid. And the second drag racer named Don to be on dinner with racers. Don the snake per dome. If you could describe this lunch we just had in one word, what would it be? Badass. That's cool. All right. We did it. Oh, really? It is good. And now for dinner with racers, presented by... Continental Tire.

0:22.0

With your host, Ryan Eversley and Sean Heckman.

0:24.7

Play's Holder Radio...

0:26.1

Rating is awesome.

0:28.3

I'm a driver.

0:29.5

I'm very angry.

0:30.5

This is the sound of a driver on the radio during a race.

0:34.1

What do you think I should?

0:35.4

Hey, J.

0:39.3

Oh, no, no, Oh, no,

0:40.3

Yo,

0:41.3

and welcome to Dinner with Racers.

0:44.3

I'm Sean Ekman.

0:45.3

I'm Ryan Eversley.

0:46.3

And we are sitting in a, well, Johnny Rock hits in the middle of Hollywood, California.

0:50.3

How we got here is another story, but we are wrapping out our 10th year of doing dinner with racers. 10th year, Ryan. Yep. Yeah, 10 years. Lots of, lots happened in that 10 years. The reason we've been doing that is because you guys have been so awesome and being so supportive, and so we almost feel guilt now. So we're doing this out of guilt and hate. Yeah, that's what fuels this podcast.

1:27.7

You know what else fuels this podcast? Awesome guests. Oh, really? Oh, okay. I'm going to go on a limb and say, you're talking about Don Prudhomme. That's right. Don the Snake Prudome. Yeah, so Don Prudome is a legend of the NHRA, long, long, long, for drag racing. Four consecutive funny car championships from 1975 to 78, and then another two in top fuel.

1:33.1

He's won the U.S. National seven times, and effectively he, along with guys like Don Garlets,

1:37.9

ushered in this new era of popularity for the NHRA through the 70s and 80s.

1:42.3

Yeah, one of the things that we've always tried to do on this show

1:44.2

is showcase different forms of racing.

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