Behind the Ropes Part 2: After An Early Shutoff The MBR A/Fuel Team Sets Its Sights On Qualifying
Here is the second installment of the Michalek Brothers Racing team blog series called Behind The Ropes. This series follows the team’s first outing with their own equipment at the 2017 NHRA...
2017 Photo Highlight Reel: David Whealon Picks His Favorites (Part 1)
(Images by David Whealon) – David Whealon has joined in the fun with a killer photo review of 2017. He has picked hundreds of his favorite snaps from the year and we arguing to be serving them...
Bruce Larson’s USA-1 DragFest 2017 Coverage: Wall To Wall Race Cars Celebrate Drag Racing History
(Words and photos by Joe Grippo) – The official end to the racing season out here in Pennsylvania happens on the second Saturday each November, that is when former NHRA Funny Car Champion...
Pioneering Drag Racing Legend Raymond Godman Has Died – War Hero Helped Set Foundation For Mid-South Drag Racing
(Photo by Paul Broughton) – He was paralyzed by a sniper’s bullet during the Korean War and while he was restricted to a wheelchair for the majority of his life, Raymond Godman rose to...
2017 Photo Highlight Reel: Benoit Pigeon Picks His Favorite Images Of The Year That Was
(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – We love when our contributing photographers put together image galleries like this. Benoit Pigeon sent in his 2017 photo highlight reel and as you’d expect...
2017 USA-1 DragFest Coverage: Cool Street Cars At Bruce Larson’s Home Drag Shrine
(Words and photos by Joe Grippo) – We are back with part wo of our report from the 2017 USA-1 DragFest held at 1989 NHRA Funny Car World Champion Bruce Larson’s Stoney Creek Barn near...
Behind The Ropes Part 1: Live A Weekend In The Life Of An NHRA A/Fuel Dragster Team As They Make Their Debut
Here’s the first of a seven part series written by Corey Michalek about the competitive debut of he and his brother Kyle’s NHRA A/fuel dragster team. After years of crewing on top fuel...
Looking To Finish A Jet Powered Pinto Wagon That Someone Started – We Found One For You!
BangShifter and land speed racer Joe Jolly sent us a tip to this wild Craigslist ad that features a partially built jet powered Pinto wagon that needs to be finished. For starters, the man building...
It Lives Again! Irwindale Speedway Gets A Reprieve From Becoming Yet Another Mall
Eff you, shopping mall, Irwindale will live on. The track, which was supposed to run it’s last ever event at the end of January before being leveled down and turned into yet another shrine to...
The NHRA’s Wild Rides 2017 Video Is A Collection Of High Impact Experiences
With the 2018 NHRA Winternationals little more than a month away, the drag racing organization took the last week to look back over stuff that happened during the 2017 campaign. While there were a...
Best of BS 2017: Sinister Sentra: Meet The 2017 LS Fest Winner For The Most Creative Swap Ever!
One notable thing about this year’s LS Fest that was far different that any other LS Fest I’ve attended…or, for that matter, any other event I have attended…is that for a good...
Best Of BS 2017: All Our Rocky Mountain Race Week 2017 Photo Coverage In One Place!
(Photos by Cole Reynolds) Here is a complete photo recap of our Rocky Mountain Race Week 2017 Coverage. Every single photo we had is below in four photo galleries by Cole Reynolds. Check them all out...
Best Of BS 2017: Street Car Super Nationals 13 Was Door Car Nirvana And We’ve Got ALL The Photos
The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway is abuzz every November with the sounds of high horsepower door cars at the Street Car Super Nationals, and this year marked the 13th running of what some call...
