{"id":3608,"date":"2025-10-20T16:25:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T16:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/?p=3608"},"modified":"2025-10-20T16:25:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T16:25:31","slug":"drag-racing-community-mourns-the-loss-of-ed-robbins-after-tragic-crash-at-jackson-dragway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/?p=3608","title":{"rendered":"Drag Racing Community Mourns the Loss of Ed Robbins After Tragic Crash at Jackson Dragway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The drag racing community is mourning the loss of longtime racer and devoted Christian, Ed Robbins, who tragically lost his life Saturday night in an accident at Jackson Dragway, Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_5126.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3605\" width=\"1200\" height=\"877\"><\/p>\n<p>Out of respect for the family, news of the accident was initially kept private, but friends and fellow racers have since come forward to honor the man behind the wheel \u2014 not just the racer, but the faithful friend they admired for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Close friend Michael Upchurch said what truly defined Ed wasn\u2019t just his love for racing \u2014 it was his unwavering faith.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere hasn\u2019t been anyone I can remember who was as vocal and passionate about his relationship with Jesus,\u201d his friend said. \u201cIt was plastered all over his car. You couldn\u2019t get him to stop talking about Jesus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DragCoverage extends our deepest condolences to Ed\u2019s family, friends, Jackson Dragway, and the racing community.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_5124.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3607\" width=\"1284\" height=\"1492\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_5125.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3606\" width=\"1174\" height=\"1500\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The drag racing community is mourning the loss of longtime racer and devoted Christian, Ed Robbins, who tragically lost his life Saturday night in an accident at Jackson Dragway, Tennessee. Out of respect for the family, news of the accident was initially kept private, but friends and fellow racers have since come forward to honor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[61],"class_list":{"0":"post-3608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_5126-600x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_5126-600x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"DC Media","author_link":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/author\/auteejay"},"authors":[{"term_id":61,"user_id":5,"is_guest":0,"slug":"auteejay","display_name":"DC Media","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d51765f05e753046aaf69cf0314e9a0f5c5945d8d9ed498ce027408f7d38abf9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","first_name":"DC","last_name":"Media","user_url":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3608"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=3608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}