This Guy Knows How To Make An Entrance! Water Plus Burnout Equals Unplanned Stunt Driving
Any time a drag race encounters water past the water box it usually doesn’t end well and as you have already figured out by the lead photo things are not going to plan for Australian drag...
This Farmpunk Slingshot Dragster May Be The Slowest, Coolest, and Purest Hot Rod We Have Seen In A While
Why do people build things? Why do some guys look at a pile of otherwise useless stuff and create things from it? The answer (we think) is pretty simple. Personal satisfaction. Guys build cars to...
Awesome Interview: Carl Tasca Talks About The History of The Tasca Ford Name At The Drags
There are certain names in any realm of competition that have a legacy, an aura, and a history. When we talk of Ford drag racing, that name is Tasca. The family that continues to operate one of the...
TX2K17 Coverage: The Night Time Is The Right Time In Houston!
(Words and photos by Jacob Marshall) – It’s 2 am. I pop the tab on my third energy drink of the day, screw my next lens into my Nikon, and head for another night meet. As my feet shuffle...
Barnstormin’: Upper and Downers – Drag Racing Performance Marks Are Falling Weekly, Is That Good?
While at the various races I have worked over the last few weeks, I have been thinking a lot about how people relate to performance barriers. Of course last weekend in Gainesville was the 25th...
TX2K17: Photos From The Pits Of A Packed Royal Purple Raceway in Texas
(Photos by Jacob Marshall) – The latest running of the famed TX2K series, the aptly named TX2K17 was held last weekend in Baytown, Texas at Royal Purple Raceway and the place was filled with...
Watch The Really Close Call That Stevie Fast and Sidnei Frigo Had At The Gatornationals
There were a few close calls during the J&A Service Pro Mod class last weekend during the 2017 Amalie Oil Gatornationals but thankfully no overt wreckage was recorded. The craziest of them all...
Watch This (Claimed) Stock Rebuild L78 396 Engine Make A Dyno Pull – Guess What It Made For Power?
The L78 was Chevrolet’s big power engine for a few of the most pivotal years of the muscle car era. Between 1966 and 1969, the L78 was the engine you optioned if you wanted the baddest...
Watch NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle Racer Andie Rawlings Hang Onto Her Bike After Making Wall Contact
NHRA Pro Stock motorcycle racer Andie Rawlings was happy to be getting a top end interview for the TV show on Friday at the event but the circumstances were not what they were looking for. Rawlings,...
This Turbo Ford-Powered Jeep Doesn’t Have Wheelie Bars, Does Have Grunt, And Hustles Without A Roof!
There is precedent for seeing a killer Jeep on a dragstrip…just off-hand, we come up with the Holy Toledo Jeepster and LSX Willys, for examples. But that doesn’t mean that they are common...
Hilarious: Watch This Aussie Drag Racing Fan Experience Top Fuel For The First Time – Video
There’s nothing like seeing a top fuel car in person for the first time as the Aussie drag racing fan in the videos below found out. In 2015 NHRA ran a program called #BaptsimbyNitro and what...
Drag Video: Autofest 2000 Highlights – The Greatest Financial Calamity In Drag Racing History Caught On Tape
It was supposed to be the event to end all events. The drag race to end all drag races. The race promoter and the track officials at Palm Beach International Raceway (Then Moroso Raceway) girded...
Money No Object: This 1987 Pontiac Firebird Has Us Thinking Bad Thoughts!
There is only one reason why this 1987 Pontiac Firebird caught my eye, and it goes straight to childhood. I had a toy car when I was little…I remember that it was a third-gen Firebird body, it...
Before Bonneville: More Intense, Fun, and Interesting Images From Ormond Beach 1905-1910
We’re back with another installment of Before Bonneville, a look at the world of land speed trials held on Florida’s Ormond beach for years before someone ever thought to turn a wheel on...
