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IHRA Triple Crown Eliminations LIVE: Teams Hit IHRA Darana National Trail Raceway For IHRA’s Triple Creown Weekend!

If you are fired up about the 2026 IHRA Triple Crown, you are not alone! This weekend promises to be full of great racing action from Darana Raceway National Trail! We’ll have all the...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: Big Money Bracket Racing From The EAST COAST TRIPLE $50K at Virginia Motorsports Park- $100,000 SATURDAY!

It’s time for more big money bracket racing as we’re right in the thick of summer racing season. We’ve got nearly a half dozen livestreams to share today as this is the hot and...

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Lost Buckeye Skips Day TWO Drag and Drive Photos! Our Final Gallery of Day Two On Track Action and Checkpoints, and More!

Here’s our 2nd gallery of lost photos from Day 2 of Buckeye Skip’s Drag and Drive, and we’ve got plenty more where that came from! Plus, if you missed the previous photos...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: We’ve Got NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing From Division 1 Maryland International Raceway – Thursday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 1! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like Sportsman Drag...

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Free Nostalgia Drag Racing Livestream: NHRA’s National Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling Green Kentucky Is LIVE Right Now!

Holley’s NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion is just one of the big events going on every year in Bowling Green Kentucky. With Nostalgia Funny Cars and Top Fuel Dragsters taking wack at Beech Bend...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 3 At Summit Motorsports Park – Thursday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 3! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like Sportsman Drag...

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KABOOM! This ‘Cuda’s Transmission Explosion Ventilated Just About Everything In The Car

(Photos: Jeff McDowell via Quad City Drag Racers) Yes, that’s a shrapnel hole in the door of this Plymouth ‘Cuda, one of many after the TorqueFlite let go in dramatic fashion. While we...

Check Out This Footage Of The Big Rig Class At The NHDRA Drags At Texas Motorplex

With the popularity of diesel racing, it is not surprising one bit that running a semi tractor down the strip has happened. What is surprising is how rare it is in the United States. In Canada, they...

Unknown Parts Counter Guy: “Oh, Back Again, I See?” – The Joys Of The Parts Bomber

The overall goal of the parts store interaction goes like this: Customer comes in with a need, counter clerk helps with said need, customer has a pleasant day afterwards. That means that the first...

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Cacklefest Photos! More Header Flaming Fun From The Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion Cacklefest

There is an implicit thing that is needed for someone to run a nitro powered engine whether it is in a cackle car, a nostalgia dragster, or a full blown modern top fuel car. That thing is trust,...

2015 Orange Drag Strip Reunion – Old Time Drag Racing At And Old Time Location

(Photos by Johnny Gaudette) – With a flag starter and a 330′ length course run on the landing strip at the small Sterling Airport in Sterling, Massachusetts the Orange Drag Strip Reunion...

NCM Motorsports Park Battling Noise Complaints – Racing Will Continue Unabated As Track Looks For Solutions

Bad news out of Bowling Green as the Bowling Green Daily News is reporting that the NCM Motorsports Park racetrack has received a notice from the City-County Planning Commission that is effectively...

VP Racing Fuels Expands Retail Operations Into New England With Sandri Partnership

Across the country VP Racing fuels stations are springing up as the company continues on a bold retail campaign that is putting their brand and their products in front of more people than they have...

Endless Dream 1970 ISCA Show Car Is For Sale – As Radical As They Come, Former ISCA Champion – Crazy Piece

We seems to be on a kick with the former ISCA show car stars around here lately, eh? From the recently uncovered Corvette we showed you a week or so ago to this mind bending creation, the wild show...

2015 LA Roadsters Show: Another Grab Bag Of Automotive Coolness

Before we return back to roadsters in our 2015 LA Roadsters Show coverage, we wanted to run one more eclectic collection of generally neat stuff that we found at the show. If you are just joining us,...

Mass. Cruisers Bass Pro Shops Cruise Night – More Photos From The Huge Gearhead Meet

The skies may have been on the gray side but that did not deter thousands of gearheads from across New England from gathering at the Bass Pro Shops location in Foxboro, Massachusetts for the...

This Pro Street/Strip 1976 Chevy Vega Has Great Looks And A Conservative Engine Combo

This little 1976 Vega is 100% street legal (in Minnesota) has a very mild little 350 under the hood (that needs to be fixed), and seems like it would be a spartan but fun little hunk of iron to beat...

Nut Driver: The Long Journey Home (Part 3) | Quality Time With The “Other” Monte

[“Nut Driver” features updates on Dave Nutting’s 1987 Chevrolet Monte Carlo] To catch up on the other installments, click HERE One of my goals for this year was to attend a full season of SCCA...

Warhead: Watch The Test Mule Engine For Tom Bailey’s Sick Seconds 2.0 Make 3,625hp On Morris Racing Engines Dyno

If there is one thing that I consider myself fortunate to have witnessed first hand it has been the escalation of competition, technology, horsepower, and insanity in the world of street legal drag...

Tennessee’s I-40 Dragway SOLD!!!! Another Drag Strip Saved!

We have it on very good authority that papers were signed today for the sale of I-40 Dragway in Tennessee! That’s great news for racers as the track recently came up for sale and it’s...