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Our 2026 NHRA GatorNationals Action Photos Just Keep Coming: Funny Cars, Top Fuel, Door Cars, Pro Mod And More!

Here’s our last blast of photos from David Whealon, but we’ve got more galleries coming still! Use the link below to check out any of the photos you might have missed so far! (Photos by...

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TX2K26 Day 5 From The Texas Motorplex: The CRAZIEST TX2K ENDING Anyone Has Seen In YEARS! $36,000 To Win This Race

Here’s the Day 5 video from The Texas Motorplex and TX2K26! If you missed any of the previous videos, just click the link below to check them out too. With the sale of Houston Raceway Park three...

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How Dangerous Is A 10hp Belt Grinder? The Fireball Tools 5HP Go Kart Belt Sander Is A Scary Machine Now!

The Fireball tools go-kart belt sander is something special, that’s for sure, and with 5 horsepower you’d think that it could hog away any material needed. And it does. But more power is...

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Painting Raised Letter Valve Covers Can Be A Pain, But When Done Right The Results Are Worth The Steps Taken

We’ve all owned a set of valve covers or a timing cover or some other automotive part that has raised letters on them. And sometimes they have a different color of paint on those raised...

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Nitro Video: FUEL ALTERED QUALIFYING FROM THE 2026 IHRA SEASON OPENER AT DARANA MOTORSPORTS PARK

We shared Funny Car action from the IHRA Season Opener at Darana Motorsports Park, formerly GALOT, yesterday and loved the IHRA Nitro action. Fuel Altereds are part of the Nitro show as well, along...

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TX2K26 Day 4 From The Texas Motorplex: The FASTEST Drag Pass in TX2K History & Leroy goes #1

Here’s the Day 4 video from The Texas Motorplex and TX2K26! If you missed any of the previous videos, just click the link below to check them out too. With the sale of Houston Raceway Park three...

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Unhinged: The Blur Of The Last Month (or, Where The Hell Did The Last Three Weeks Go?)

For what feels like the first time in a month, I’m at home working at my desk. I’ve only been home for about four hours now…and I’m still kind of weirded out that I’m...

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One Cadillac, Two Engines, And “Fear And Loathing” Clothes. This Episode Of Dirt Every Day Can Only End Well…

When they sold new in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Cadillac Eldorados were the pinnacle of “you made it” automobiles. Between an Eldorado and an Lincoln Continental Mark coupe, these...

This 1975 Ford Falcon XB Is Finished, In The States And Ready To Find A New Home!

Not going to make a Mad Max reference. Not going to re-hash the story of the pilot I knew who drove an XB Fairmont to work every day. Not even going to put out how important this car was to Ford...

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Kiwis Race Muscle Cars, Too: New Zealand’s Classics-Racing Series is as Fantastic as Any

One of the great things about the muscle-car era Down Under is that it really carried on in the late 1970s while the United States suffered through the Malaise Era. As a result, the Australian Holden...

Check Out These Ford Escorts and Sierras Racing at Hal Far in Malta

As our fearless leader Brian Lohnes is quick to point out, drag racing takes place all over this country. This includes a number of unlikely countries, but Hal Far Raceway on the tiny Mediterranean...

Take A Closer Look At One Of The Wilder Cars At SEMA 2016: The “Durty 30” Model A Roadster!

I don’t know if it’s a bad thing or not that I have become a bit jaded to the vehicles that appear at SEMA shows. Not that they all aren’t cool or unique in their own individual...

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Running With The Big Boys: This Nasty All-Wheel-Drive DSM Comes Out Swinging!

Seeing a hopped up Mitsubishi Eclipse/Eagle Talon/Plymouth Laser usually elicits snickering and snide comments about “danger to manifold” and breaking welds and other snipes that come...

MSHS Season Finale At ATCO Dragway Gallery – Points On The Line And Negative DAs Bring Out The Racers!

You want to make a drag racer happy? Inform them that the density altitude is deep into negative territory and watch them light up. Like -1,162 ft. at high noon good. To say that the racers of the...

Crazy Mud Drags Action From Texas – Watch The Wild Thang Act Out Its Name! Three Wheels Are Better Than Four?

(By Jason Mazzotta) – They say everything is bigger in Texas and I guess that can be said for this mud truck crash as well, where we see a monster wheelstand, the loss of a wheel, continuation...

Finally A Champion; Ron Capps Is Your 2016 Funny Car Champ!

Ron Capps and the NAPA Auto Parts Dodge Charger R/T Funny Car team, led by crew chief Rahn Tobler, delivered Capps his first NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series world championship after being...

Steamed-Up: When the Besler Brothers Built a Steam-Powered Airpane

George and William Besler, the sons of a railroad magnate named—wait for it—George William Besler, were not the last innovators to try powering cars with steam engines, but they are among the...

This Skip Barber Series Racer Goes Last to First in Just Two Laps at Road Atlanta

It’s been a while since we’ve pulled up a good last-to-first run in a road race, so here’s one of teenage driver Jackie Ding ripping through a Skip Barber Winter Series field at Road Atlanta in...

Mr. Lewis’ Wild Ride: This Challenger Goes Lane-To-Lane And Manages To Miss Both Walls!

(Video courtesy of Justin Skudder) There’s one thing we all have learned after years of dragstrip time: If things seem to be going smoothly, just wait…something will happen shortly that...

This Land Rover Defender 110 High Capacity Pickup Is Off Roading Insanity. Sign Us Up.

When we saw this truck at the Off-Road Expo in Pomona last month we were blown away. You don’t see many right had drive vehicles around here period, but when combined with the fact that this...