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2018 NHRA Auto Club World Finals: Pit Photos That Show The Prep, The Thrash, and The Parts

(Photos by Wes Allison) – We’re turning our eyes away from the track for a minute and toward the pits with these photos from last weekend’s 2018 NHRA Auto Club World Finals in...

World Finals Video: Steve Torrence Sweeps The Countdown, Wins Pomona In Dramatic Fashion

24 rounds in a row. A feat never accomplished in the Countdown era of NHRA drag racing, a sweep. Steve Torrence and the CAPCO Contractors top fuel dragster ran the table starting after the 2018...

2018 NHRA Auto Club World Finals Action Photos: Competition Eliminator, Super Gas, Super Stock, and More

(Photos by Wes Allison) – It was a crazy week in Southern California with the wildfires burning within about 60-70 miles of the track. By the time we weekend was done we were seeing the...

The Ultra-Competitive A/Factory Experiment Class From The California Hot Rod Reunion!

(Peter Liebig Photography) – The recent California Hot Rod Reunion attracts a broad collection of hot rods and racecars, with one class of classic cars that always attracts a unique bunch....

2018 Radial vs The World Recap: Three Power Adder Winners In 2018 – Highlight Video!

2018 was one of the most incredible years of drag racing on all fronts that anyone can remember. Events and classes across the country were full of racers and people and the sport is certainly...

Watch Terry Haddock Suffer An Old School Funny Car Inferno At Pomona – NHRA Auto Club Finals Video

Terry Haddock is one of nitro racing’s scrappiest survivors. For years he has been competing with nitro funny cars and top fuel dragsters and doing it on budget fractional to what major teams...

2018 NHRA Auto Club World Finals Photos: More Sportsman Action From Pomona!

(Photos by Wes Allison) – While the 2018 Auto Club NHRA World Finals may be over, we have days of photos left to share from the crazy weekend in SoCal. From Super Gas cars wrecking into the...

Pritchett, Capps, Coughlin Jr. & Smith #1 Qualifiers At NHRA Pomona World Finals!

(Photos by Jeff and Mike Burghardt) –Leah Pritchett in Top Fuel, Ron Capps’ Funny Car, Jeg Coughlin Jr. in Pro Stock and Matt Smith in Pro Stock Motorcycle were No. 1 qualifiers in their...

Prichett Top Fuel 3.649 ET, Johnson Jr, Coughlin Jr, & Smith Are Friday Qualifying Leaders At Pomona NHRA World Finals!

(Mike Burghardt photos) – Friday at Pomona Raceway had near perfect weather with an awesome track and the Top Fuel class took advantage of it with epic qualifying at the the season-ending 54th...

2018 NHRA Auto Club World Finals Photos: Sportsman Action From Hardcore Thursday At Pomona

(Photos by Wes Allison) – It is the beginning of the end of the 2018 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing season with the kick off of the 2018 NHRA Auto Club World finals at Auto Club Raceway in...

American Powertrain Parting Shift: A Turbocharged 13B Rotary And A Sequential Trans Make This An 8-Second Street Car

There’s someone about old, vintage Japanese cars that we dig around here. The styling is reminiscent of American muscle cars, their power plants were mostly weaklings but sometimes cool, and...

Watch Robert Hight’s Crazed Trip Into The Net At The 2017 NHRA World Finals

Robert Hight enters the 2018 NHRA World Finals as the second runner in the fuel funny car points chase. If you think that worries him one bit, you missed the memo on what he did in 2017. The murky...

Watch The 1980 NHRA World Finals From Ontario Motor Speedway Right Here – Top Fuel, Funny Car, and Pro Stock

The 1980 NHRA season was one for the books and the World Finals that year, held at the cavernous Ontario Motor Speedway was a real hum dinger of a drag race. Coming into the event the top fuel race...

Mike Janis Grabs First NHRA Pro Mod Championship As Sidnei Frigo Wins Vegas Finals!

(Photos by Mike Burghardt) – Mike Janis won his first E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series presented by J&A Service world championship at the season ending event during the NHRA...