For Bakersfield’s Krista Suydam, there is nothing like being strapped into the cockpit of her 1,100-horsepower dragster and thundering through a quarter-mile run at more than 180 miles per hour. “It’s ...

The first goal is to get into the show. The second, to get on television. Do the first, and the second is a given. Krista Suydam has little control over either of those outcomes, but one can bet ...