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Editor: Rod Sullivan
Profession: Maritime Attorney

Category: Boating Accidents

For many years drag racer Scott Kalitta, 46, was the owner of Great American Marine on Gulfport Boulevard in St. Petersburg. Last month he died in a Funny Car Crash at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park in New Jersey. He was a former two time champion of the National Hot Rod Association Top Fuel competition. The back wings of Katilla's dragsters sported the phrases "Great American Marina" and "Spending Scott Kalitta's inheritance tour." He sold the marina to Brunswick Corporation in 2006.

Kalitta's father, Connie Kalitta, was one of drag racing's elder statesmen. He helped found the sport as a spectator event in the 1950s and '60s, building and driving a number of Top Fuel dragsters.