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Three-Time Top Fuel Champion Larry Dixon Returns To NHRA Competiton With IHRA Backing!
Two of drag racing’s marquee events will come together with one of the sport’s most decorated champions this weekend at Gainesville (Fla.) Raceway Three-time NHRA world champion and IHRA...
IHRA Prez Mike Dunn Adds Three Nitro Drivers To New Professional Competition Advisory Board!
For 2017, the International Hot Rod Association has morphed into a Sportsman racing series, shelving their Nitro Funny Car, Nitro Harley, Mountain Motored Pro Stock and Jet show for now. The vacuum...
Remember When Jay Leno Drove A Pro Stock Car In The 1990s? (And Blew The Clutch Out Of It?)
Recently there was a big deal made about Jay Leno’s first episode of the CNBC version of “Jay Leno’s Garage”. In one part of the show he went to the Frank Hawley Drag Racing...
Pritchett, Hagen, & Line Win Pomona Wallys From #1 Spots, Sportsman Winners Too!
(Photos by Mike Burghardt) – Leah Pritchett, who grew up in nearby Redlands, California grabbed the second Top Fuel Wally of her career at the 57th annual Circle K NHRA Winternationals on...
Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News: This Week, Shoving Kids Into The Trunk, Tesla vs. Adidas, And More!
Welcome back to the table of plenty! Whether you are swimming in your front yard out west, digging your car out of a snowbank in the Northeast, or enjoying the storms that are blowing through the...
John Force Racing Is Back In SoCal And Holding A Wednesday Open House At The RaceStation!
(Phoenix testing photos by Gary Nastase Photography) Years ago, John Force Racing moved from their remodeled luxury car dealership in SoCal’s Yorba Linda heading for new headquarters with...
That’s A Wrap: Our Final Round Of Photos From The 2017 Grand National Roadster Show
You never thought it was going to end, did you? The seemingly relentless charge of photos from the 2017 Grand National Roadster day after day. We just about shot ’em all at the Pomona Fairplex...
2017 Grand National Roadster Show: We’ve Not Yet Begun To (Photo) Fight!
The Pomona Fairplex is an interesting place and it is a pretty important place in American motorsports history we’d say. The drag strip there is the oldest operating track in the country, the...
Best Of NHRA Wild Rides 2016 Is A Crazy Look Back At 2016 – KABOOM!
As the days tick by, we’re getting closer and closer to the 2017 NHRA Circle K Winternationals and the NHRA is releasing some cool videos to get people pumped for the upcoming season. Recently...
Crazy Video: Watch The Terrifying Ken Cruz Stuck Throttle Crash From The 2014 US Street Nationals
I’m about ready to chew through a leather strap I am so ready for racing season to get started. Yeah, the nostalgia guys and girls got cranking last weekend in Phoenix but the door slammer...
Mopar Announces 2017 Drag Racing Support Initiatives – Cool Stuff For Sportsman Racers
When Mopar announced that they were basically leaving the world of NHRA pro stock with the release of both Jeg Coughlin Jr. and Erica Enders from their respective contracts, many were wondering if...
J.R. Todd Named Driver Of DHL Nitro Funny Car, Coughlin Jr. To Assume Seat In SealMaster Dragster, more
The hotly anticipated announcement from Kalitta Motorsports regarding their driver situation was made yesterday and the crux of the message is that J.R. Todd will be taking the driving role in the...
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...
BangShift Feature Replay: Great Drag Racing Stories From Hero Announcer Jon Lundberg
Jon Lundberg’s name is no stranger to the lips of any drag racing fan who knows the history of the sport. While Dave Mac became the voice of the NHRA, Lundberg became the voice of virtually all...