IHRA Nitro Jam – Explosive Opener In Tucson Qualifying
Words by Darr Hawthorne – Photos by Bob Snyder and Darr Hawthorne The International Hot Rod Association’s 2015 Nitro Jam Drag Racing Series season opened Friday afternoon at...
Cool! The Chassis To Dave Brackett’s Forward Thinking 1970s Motorcycle Powered Dragster Is For Sale
As you are reading this, there’s a chance that right now at the NHRA Winternationals a Junior Comp dragster is screaming down the quarter mile in Pomona. The Junior Comp class is an interesting...
Friday BOOM: A Collection Of Videos Featuring Funny Car Top Fuel, And Alky Dragster Wreckage At The NHRA Winternationals
The Winternationals are on ever racer’s short list of events to win. Pomona, Gainesville, Indy, and a handful of other “majors” are the big races that punctuate championship seasons...
Aeromotive Announces Awesome New Sponsorships
Awesome things are happening with our BangShift partners at Aeromotive Fuel Systems as they continue to support racers in all forms of motorsports. Going into this weekend’s IHRA Nitro Jam Series...
The Best Automotive Super Bowl Ad Of All Time Was The 1970 GTO Humbler Spot That Only Aired Once And Got An Option Package Killed
1970 was the absolute zenith of the muscle car era. It all was going great guns. The cars were wilder looking, more powerful, more sexy, and faster than anyone could have imagined that they would...
Watch Dave Demarco’s Dastardly Regal Run 4.18 On Its Second Hit Ever – Screw Blown Hemi Drag Radial Goodness
Hey I’ll be the first to admit that I’m a homer. You know what a homer is, a guy who roots for the teams that come from his hometown or area. Since the Demarco Boys are from my area and...
Would You Pay $18,000 For The Rotting Remains Of This 1965 A990 Hemi Belvedere?
We know that there’s no such thing as “too far gone” when it comes to cars like this one but you’d REALLY need to be a hemi or Chrysler nut to spend the dough to buy this...
San Antonio IHRA Nitro Jam Postponed, Event Moved To Baton Rouge Amidst Ownership Questions At SAR
The news coming from San Antonio Raceway lately has hardly been positive. The track was shuttered, the equipment was reportedly stolen, and then it was put up for public auction where no deal was...
This Brazillian Chevette Will Stomp It’s Way To A 9-second Quarter Mile!
In America, mentioning a Chevrolet Chevette brings up images of the tiny little front-engined, rear drive hatchbacks that graced our presence from 1976-1987. They were cheap, basic, and essentially...
Watch In-Car Video of a Pinto Drag Car Pull a Vertical Wheelie and Taco the Front End
Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park (formerly Norwalk Raceway Park) in Ohio is one of the fastest, nicest, and hardest hooking drag strips in the country. We’ve been there back when it was...
Wild In Car Video Of What It Is Like To Make A Pass At The Merrill Ice Drags – Full Throttle On The Frozen Eighth Mile!
So just because the glaciers come in and swallow everything during the winters in Wisconsin doesn’t mean that hot rodding has to stop. Sure, if someone from California set foot on a frozen lake...
Strip Trip: A Peek Inside The Frozen Remains Of Pocono Drag Lodge – One Of The Best Known Lost Strips In The Country
So I am finally getting to this series of drag strip visit stories from our family road trip in December. I am going to run them mostly in the order that we visited but I may mess with that a little...
Mark Rebilas Publishes His Best Crash And Burn Photos Of 2014 – Breathtaking Stuff From Multiple Forms Of Racing
Every driver in every photo featured below is having a bad day. They are either about to crash, crashing, engulfed in flames, dodging parts, or trying to keep a bad situation from getting worse....
Big News: Victory Motorcycles To Compete In NHRA Pro Stock Bike In 2015 With Matt And Angie Smith
Here’s some NHRA news that we did not know was in the works. Victory Motorcycles announced that they will be competing in the NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle category in 2015 fielding two bikes with...
