Deletion of Doug Thorley

Comment: I also find, from the ''Los Angeles Times'', that in 2002 he was an NHRA Motorsports Museum Heritage Award honoree https://www.newspapers.com/image/189974762/?terms=%22Doug%2BThorley%22, and there's an article about him the same year in the ''Daily Spectrum'' (St George, Utah), which says he would be inducted into the NHRA Hall of Fame (the same thing??): 'Feeling the Need for Speed' https://www.newspapers.com/image/286701842/?terms=%22Doug%2BThorley%22, which gives biographical details like his age, where he grew up, the school he went to, that he started working as a rancher. His 1967 win was reported nationally. I have not looked thoroughly enough to find newspaper references for breaking 200 mph, but I have found references stating that he had broken the 190 mph barrier on 6 different occasions before 1968. I don't know anything about drag racing, but from the sources included in the article, and other sources available, I'd say he clearly meets 
Stance: keep
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Comment: the author https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doug_Thorley&diff=prev&oldid=871970707 blanked the page, making it technically eligible to be |speedily deleted under G7 criteria
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Comment: because the driver meets  points 1, 3, and arguably 8. The NHRA is the top national series of the United States so just competing at a national event for the sanctioning body meets 1 & 3. Then he won which enhances his notability. Having an unofficial world record also enhances notability. http://landspeedracing.com/2013/newsletter290/ This website even goes further than the article does noting his use of a supercharger in his single Funny Car win as being ground breaking and causing all teams in the class to switch from injected-only to injected+supercharged within a few months. Setting that trend was an important milestone of note (and a point of notability) that belongs in the lead and the article. It is very difficult to work on articles for subjects whose notability predates the World Wide Web by several decades since sources are so difficult to find (print only
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Comment: per .  Checking through and reading the references, most are passing mentions or results of particular races
Stance: delete
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