Tag Archive: spotlight
Ron Capps Gets a New Crew Chief: Rahn Tobler to turn the screws after restructuring at Don Schumacher Racing.
BROWNSBURG, Ind. – Rahn Tobler has been named crew chief for the NAPA AUTO PARTS Funny Car of Ron Capps effective immediately, team owner Don Schumacher announced Wednesday. Tim Richards...
First Look: Sondra Leslie’s 5.0L Coyote Powered NMRA Factory Stock Entry is Nearly Complete
Sondra Leslie has been a staple on the NMRA circut for the last several years. Up until 2012 she has competed with a V6 car that was first nitrous injected and later was supercharged. Taking the...
Caption this Photo: You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me Loose Wheel
New England Dragway competitor Roy Dunn got an interesting surprise on opening day when he launched his nice Monte Carlo down the track and quickly converted it into a model Chevy never made…a...
BS Tech: Pro Tuning Secrets – Finding 20hp in Your Distributor!
(Words and Photos by Scott Liggett) – The proof is in the numbers. In our first part to this article we followed Yannick Sire of Sire Custom Performance take an old crusty GM HEI and do a...
eBay Find: A 1942 M3A1 Armored Scout Car – This is Bad-Assery on Wheels!
As you know, I am a total lunatic for old Army trucks and there are lots of my ilk out there. When it comes to totally awesome Army truck finds, they don’t get better than this. I found this...
Pro Touring Tech: High Performance Tires 101 With the Experts at BFG
(Words by Dave Nutting) – Hello and welcome to the second installment in our on-going Pro-touring tech series, a little something that we like to call “Pro-touring 101”. Think less...
Maryland’s Capitol Raceway Closed Over Apparent Land/Lease Dispute
The drag strip operated by NHRA Pro Stock team owner Jim Cunningham, Capitol Raceway is currently closed. The reasons for this closure appear to stem from a dispute over the lease on the track. The...
Watch a Big Rig and a Huge Tow Truck Fall 200 Feet Over an Icy Cliff
This video has been on the web for a day or two, so we’re late to the party, but it is amazing to watch. Apparently filmed in Norway, the video shows a big rig being towed up a mountain road....
Caption This Photo: What’s Everyone Lookin’ For?
(Photo by Charles Wickam) – It takes a veritable village to run a high power drag car like one of the entries in the ADRL’s Pro Extreme or Pro Nitrous class. Those 2,000+hp beasts...
Watch Bob Riggle Take the Hemi Under Glass Wheelstander Up the Hill at Goodwood Circa 2007
When I ran the video of Ron Hope’s crash in the Rat Trap AA/FA at a road course type event in New Zealand the other day, I knew that the video was going to get picked up and run everywhere. I...
Gallery: Hotckis Suspension and Hotckis H-Team Track Day
(Photos by Khan Media) – One of the coolest aspects of working for a company that designs and builds high performance suspension systems is the fact that those components need to be tested and...
Junkyard Stagger: We Hit Another Yard and Find More Cool Old Junk, Plus Parts for Buford t Justice
We once again went junkyard hunting for Caprice parts and while at the yard, some cool stuff jumped up and caught our eye. While there are not any true gems like we found during our last scavenging...
ADRL Houston 2012 – Eliminations Galleries and Race Results HERE!
(Photos by Charles Wickam) – It was a wild weekend in Baytown, Texas last weekend at the ADRL’s CarSafe Dragpalooza VIII run on the strip at Royal Purple Raceway. Charles Wickam was there...
