Author Archive: Darr Hawthorne
Brittany Force, Jack Beckman, Greg Anderson & Chip Ellis Lead First Day Qualifying At Pomona World Finals!
(Photos by Will Lester and Wesley Allison) Top Fuel title contender Brittany Force piloted her Brian Husan/Alan Johnson-tuned Monster Energy dragster to the quickest pass in Auto Club Raceway at...
Trepanier’s ’29 Model-A Tudor Crowned 2017 SEMA Battle Of The Builders Winner!
Troy Trepanier was announced as the winner of the 2017 SEMA Battle of the Builders competition during SEMA Ignited, the official SEMA Show after-party held at the conclusion of the 2017 SEMA Show in...
Aeromotive And Waterman Dominate NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion Nitro!
Winning is tough in any form of motorsports, but when three top nitro racecars and teams sweep the better part of the top eliminator field, it’s worth yelling it from the rooftops. You all...
BANGshift’s Nitro Funny Car Gypsy Lays Out Odds For The 26th California Hot Rod Reunion!
As nitro funny car racing matures, the task of picking the final rounds and a top ten in the class is getting tougher and tougher with each event. The 26th California Hot Rod Reunion at Auto Club...
NHRA Top Fuel Champion Shawn Langdon Moves Into A Kalitta Funny Car In 2018!
(Photos by Mike Burghardt, Bob Wingfield and NHRA Media) It’s that time of the year called the Silly Season, where drivers in all forms of motorsport are rumored to be moving from team to team,...
NHRA Heritage Top Fuel Dragsters In Tight Points Battle Going Into Tulsa Nitro Nationals!
(Photos by Dyan Lover and Darr Hawthorne) The All American Fuel Dragster coalition is bringing a full field of front-engine Top Fuel dragsters to the Nitro Nationals at Tulsa Raceway Park for the...
NHRA Heritage Series Sportsman Winners Crowned At Nostalgia Fall Championships!
(Photos by Kleet Norris and Darr Hawthorne – Words by NHRA Field Marketing) The 2017 NHRA Hot Rod Heritage Series Championship season is over for Group 2 Sportsman competitors as they...
Jimmy Daniels Two-For-Two At US Nationals Mopar HEMI® Challenge
(Photos courtesy of Mopar Motorsports) Second generation Mopar racer Jimmy Daniels is now two-for-two in the Mopar HEMI® Challenge. The 21-year-old driver from Yardley, Pennsylvania, made...
The 15th Ventura Nationals – Roadsters, Coupes, Bikes, Lead Sleds, Trucks & Low Riders On The Beach
(Photos by Darr Hawthorne) There are so many Labor Day traditions, some of them being a car shows and cruises. The tradition of the Ventura Nationals, held at Seaside Park on the beach in Ventura,...
Pro Stock’s Allen Johnson Calls It Quits After 2017 Season
(Photos Bob Wingfield, Jeff Burghardt, Mike Burghardt and Mopar Motorsports) One of the last remaining non-Chevrolet NHRA Pro Stock racers, Allen Johnson, has carried the Mopar flag for his entire...
Nitro Funny Car Gypsy Lays Down Odds For The 46th Pepsi Nightfire Nationals!
(Photos by Dyan Lover, Jeff Burghardt, Bob Snyder, Darr Hawthorne) In what is shaping up as an outstanding assembly of nitro racecars, the 46th Pepsi Nightfire Nationals will be a shootout for most...
Introducing Project 2 Timer; BANGshift Resurrection Altered Wheelbase Chevy II!
(Words by Darr Hawthorne – Photos by Zak Hawthorne, Nick Licata & Darr Hawthorne) With recycling in so many parts of our lives, it surely extends into classic cars and repurposing hot rods...
Bobby Cottrell And Bucky Austin Power Win UNFC Seattle Invitational!
(Photos by Dyan Lover, Frank L. Smith & Jim Doyle) It took a couple of record setting performances, but the Bucky Austin-Mike O’Brien “Northwest Hitter” Bardahl-backed Camaro driven by...
