Gasser Racing Series Announces 8 Race Schedule for 2012 Season
If you haven’t heard of the Gasser Racing Series, you are missing out. With only two classes, a requirement for open headers, and an everything goes except Nitro mentality, this series is...
Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week 2012 Rules Announced – New Impound Rule
Hot Rod Magazine recently announced the rules for Drag Week. These rules will stand for a couple of years so prospective competitors can build a car to race and know it will have a home when the...
Irwindale Speedway Update: The Entire 2012 Racing Season at the Facility Has Been Cancelled.
As we reported yesterday, the management at Irwindale Speedway was expected to make a statement regarding the plans for the track during the coming season. That announcement came and sadly it...
Traditional Hot Rod Gallery: The 2012 Austin Speed Shop Bonnie and Clyde Reliability Run
(Photos by Charles Wickam) – When our man Charles Wickam told us that he was going to catch a ride up to Austin and check out a killer event at Jesse James’s Austin Speed Shop we were...
Wheel Tech: The Science and Specifications Behind a Top Fuel/Funny Car Drive Wheel From The Guys at Weld Racing
Of all the parts that take incredible abuse on a Top Fuel Dragster or Nitro Funny Car, the drive wheels are right there at the top of the list. In the blink of an eye they go from being at rest to...
Irwindale Speedway May Be Dead – Then Again, It May Not Be
Irwindale Speedway, one of the last remaining drag strips in SoCal may be dead. The facility is most well known for the 6,500 seat circle track that was formerly sanctioned by NASCAR and has long...
Massey, Anderson, and Force Claim NHRA Winternationals Titles – See All of Our Coverage Here!
The 2012 NHRA O’Reilly Auto Parts Winternationals are complete and three familiar names have found their way into the winner’s circle this year. In Top Fuel, Spencer Massey fended off...
Larry Dixon – The Real Story Straight From Larry Dixon
Minutes ago, Chad spoke to Larry Dixon in the pits at Pomona. Their brief conversation centered around Dixon’s lack of a ride in 2012 and what his immediate plans are. This has been the biggest...
The NHRA Winternationals Saturday Qualifying…Three rounds only, due to rain!
After some drizzle and delay in the morning that virtually assured Sportsman racers that they would be having their final rounds on Monday here at the NHRA O’Reilly Auto Parts Winternationals,...
The NHRA Winternationals “Behind the Scenes: Wet Edition” Saturday 2012
It was supposed to maybe drizzle on us on Saturday morning of the NHRA O’Reilly Auto Parts Winternationals in Pomona on Saturday. It did. It also drizzled on us some more in the afternoon. Then...
NHRA Winternationals Pro Stock, Top Fuel, and Funny Car Action Gallery Day Two 2012
We had a busy day at the NHRA O’Reilly Auto Parts Winternationals on Friday. The sun was out, the crowd was thick, and there was plenty of racing action to catch. In fact, so much that we had a...
NHRA Winternationals Coverage Continues: Friday’s Behind the Scenes Action
Yesterday we brought you some great Behind the Scenes action shots from the season opening NHRA O’Reilly Auto Parts Winternationals. 2012 marks the 52 Anniversary of this famed event, held just...
Project Update: The AMX/GTO Project is nearly complete!
The wild AMX/GTO project is on the home stretch! As a quick refresher, this car is a 1969 AMX body that was placed on the chassis of a wrecked 2007 Pontiac GTO. The GTO was cut and narrowed, the AMX...
