Corey Michalek’s Top Alcohol Win At Charlotte Is The Coolest Thing I Have Ever Announced In Drag Racing
So as many of you know, I am on the announcing staff with the NHRA for about half the scheduled races during the 2014 season. I worked at the Gatornationals in March and just returned from my trip to...
SoCal Media Challenge At The Frank Hawley Drag Racing School – BS Contributor Takes It All!
NewsStand and Online editors and contributors meet for supremacy on the Fontana quarter-mile. Words and photos by Darr Hawthorne In early April, a bunch of cocky media-types, both male...
This Turbocharged Small Block Powered Ferrari 250 GTO Goes 8s, Drives To Track, Rules All (Video)
The Ferrari 250 GTO is one of the world’s most famous, beautiful, and expensive cars. Real ones sell for between 20-30 million dollars at auction and at private sales between captains of...
Strip Visit: Cool Cars And Trucks At Mooresville Dragway’s Test And Tune Night With A Bonus Gasser!
Know what a drag racing announcer does the day before he goes to the drag races? He goes to the drag races, ya big dummy! Continuing to share some of my adventure with Eric Yost and the guys, the...
Mike McIntire Jr. Leads Field Of First-Time Winners At IHRA Nitro Jam
BRADENTON, Fla. After two awesome IHRA Nitro Jams this year, one question kept popping up – Would anyone ever beat Jason Rupert? On Saturday at Bradenton Motorsports Park, the answer to that...
Blamo Video: How to Quickly Remove a Supercharger
Aussie Top Fuel shoe Amanda Shepherd did what good drivers do when their car smokes the tires, she pedaled. Unfortunately, in this case the car was in no mood for that and she suffers one of the most...
Rupert, Goforth Once Again Tops In Nitro Jam Qualifying At IHRA Southern Nationals
BRADENTON, Fla. Can anyone slow down Jason Rupert? That is the question on the minds of many as the California native and driver of the Bays and Rupert “Black Plague” ’69 Camaro once...
Outlaw Fuel Altered Association Photos – More Action From North Star Dragway In Texas
(Photos by Brad Klaassen) – Last weekend the Outlaw Fuel Altered Association and the Southwest Heritage Racing Association held an awesome early season event at North Star Dragway in Texas. The...
John Robinson’s Cummins Diesel Powered Altered Is Nuts And Extremely Fast (Video)
If the name John Robinson sounds vaguely familiar to drag racing fans it is because he’s the guy who campaigned a diesel funny car for several years and did some awesome stuff with it, like run...
Robert Hight, Courtney Force, And Brittany Force Start Strong At NHRA 4-Wide Nationals
Team Force is at it again, as the NHRA rolls into Charlotte’s ZMax Dragway for the NHRA 4-Wide Nationals this weekend. In Funny Car, Hight is currently sitting in the No. 2 spot, Courtney is...
The Parting Shift: The 12,000 RPM Nova Launching Hard
This week’s parting shift takes us out of the drivers’ compartment and places us straight up in the grand stands. That’s A-Ok as you’ll find out when you watch the video,...
Friday BOOM: A Blown Slick Tears a 1938 Chevy to Shreds
Thankfully, exploding drag slicks are a relative rarity at the strip. That’s a good thing because when they let go, major damage is a 100% guarantee. Take this nice 1938 Chevy for example. The...
Snake And Mongoose Available On Demand, On DVD, and On Blu-Ray Now
Good news for those of you that are fans of drag racing history, the Snake and Mongoose movie has finally been released for download, on demand, DVD and Blu-Ray. The move follows the careers of Tom...
Larry Dixon To Drive Second Bob Vandergriff Racing Top Fuel Dragster At Nine Events This Season
There have been questions swirling around Bob Vandergriff Racing since JR Todd took the driving position at Kalitta Motorsports. We had heard through various channels that Vandergriff had received...
