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Author Archive: Darr Hawthorne

Bartone And Boggs Top Fueler Continues Winning Ways!

Words by NHRA Communications and AA/FD   Sunday at the NHRA New England Hot Rod Reunion concluded at New England Dragway provided a final day of exciting quarter-mile drag racing and classic car...

2015 U.S. Nationals Extra: Coughlin Family Has Storied History at Indy

Words and photos by Team JEGS   Indianapolis is a magic place for racers from all over the world, and for many, simply getting to compete at historic Lucas Oil Raceway is a dream come true. But...

2015 U.S. Nationals Extra: JR Todd Replaces Massey In Traxxas Top Fuel Shootout

Words by NHRA Communications Photos by Jeff Burghardt   NHRA officials announced today that Seattle winner J.R. Todd has been inserted into the Traxxas Nitro Shootout Top Fuel field in place of...

2015 U.S. Nationals Extra: Larry Dixon Has Four Decades of Indy Performance

  Words by NHRA Communications Photos by Mike & Jeff Burghardt, Darr Hawthorne and NHRA Media   Three-time NHRA Top Fuel world champion Larry Dixon’s fascination with the Chevrolet...

DeWALT Highlights ‘Made In USA’ With Kalitta Motorsports

Kalitta Motorsports, in partnership with DEWALT and Mac Tools, are pleased to announce the extension of the DEWALT Made in the USA with global materials initiative to the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing...

Beckman And Brown Quickest In Final U.S. Nationals Testing

Words by NHRA Communications Photos by Don Schumacher Racing and NHRA Media   NHRA Funny Car points leader Jack Beckman and Top Fuel world championship challenger Antron Brown posted the...

Jason Rupert Eclipses Nitro Funny Car World Record During IHRA Northern Nationals

Words and photos by IHRA Communications   With a few weather delays, first round of IHRA Nitro Jam qualifying was completed late Friday night during day one of the Northern Nationals presented...

Brown, McGaha, Krawiec Race To NHRA Sonoma Wins – Beckman’s Streak Alive

Photos by Jeff and Mike Burghardt Words by NHRA Communications Jack Beckman finished off a dominating weekend at the NHRA Sonoma Nationals on Sunday by racing to the Funny Car victory while Antron...

UPDATE! Beckman & Prock Set NHRA Nitro Funny Car Record

Photos by Jeff Burghardt Words by Jeff Wolf/DSR Don Schumacher Racing’s record-setting efforts in qualifying Friday and Saturday during the NHRA Sonoma Nationals will look great on highlight...

California Drag Racers Sweep Division 7 NHRA LODRS At Sonoma

Photos by Mike and Jeff Burghardt Words by NHRA Field Marketing   Seven California racers took home wins from the Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series presented by Korbel at Sonoma Raceway over the...

Beckman’s Awesome 3.921 ET – Quickest In NHRA History

Photos by Mike Burghardt Words by Don Schumacher Racing Jack Beckman was a little lightheaded when he got out of Don Schumacher Racing’s Infinite Hero Dodge Charger R/T Funny Car on Friday...

Bobby Cottrell Wins Nostalgia A/Fuel Shoot-Out In Sonoma

Photos by Mike Burghardt Bobby Cottrell goes back-to-back winning the Nostalgia A/Fuel John Shoemaker Shoot Out at California’s Sonoma Raceway over the weekend. Cottrell, 2013-14 NHRA Heritage...

Weather Delays Postpone Opening of Dragway 42

Words and photos courtesy of IHRA IHRA Nitro Jam World Nationals will be held in 2016 Dragway 42, in West Salem, Ohio, is entering the concrete and paving phase of their massive reconstruction of the...

Nostalgia A/Fuel Association Announces Sonoma Shoot-Out

Dennis Allen in the Cowin-Allen A/Fuel Dragster The Nostalgia A/Fuel Racers Association is proud to announce the 2nd annual John Shoemaker Memorial Shoot-Out.  The event will be run as part of the...