Nitro cars are the bread and butter of the professional levels of NHRA drag racing. They are placed as the biggest stars, on the biggest stage and much like Cup cars in NASCAR, and it falls to Top Fuel and Funny Car to carry the rest of the show. They are the pinnacle that all …
Hockey has the Stanley Cup. The Daytona 500 has the Harley J. Earl trophy. This being the month of May, there are a number of people pursuing IndyCar’s Borg-Warner trophy. The Kentucky Derby graces winners with a blanket of roses. The NHRA’s most prestigious race, the U.S. Nationals, sees the winner endowed with…a Wally. The …
In Pro Stock last year, NHRA superpowers emerged in KB Racing. Over in Pro Stock Motorcycle, it’s been the Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson team since the earth cooled — or so it seems. In Nitro, success has been reserved for mostly Don Schumacher Racing with a little John Force Racing thrown in for good measure. It’s called domination. It’s …
The J&A Services NHRA Pro Mod division joined the other professional classes of the sport and made their four-wide debut last weekend, and it was a rousing success. To be completely honest, the Pro Mods did better on their first try than some of the other classes. No confusion on any of the starts, everyone …
NHRA Four-Wide Nationals weekend is underway at the zMAX Dragway out in Charlotte. And a familiar last name, Force, tops the outstanding lineup you’ll see. Courtney Force had a terrible run in round one qualifying for Funny Car, hurt when her car veered left but made up for it in round two. She scored an all-around track …
Sure the racing was exciting this past weekend, but as is always the case when they happen, the big buzz was about the fight. In case you didn’t hear about it somehow, after Alex Laughlin and Tanner Gray faced off in eliminations, Gray apparently was unhappy with how Laughlin staged his car and had some …
Last week I passed along the news that Shawn Langdon was moving to Kalitta Motorsports to drive a third Top Fuel entry effective immediately. The move from Don Schumacher Racing to Kalitta was prompted by a lack of sponsor support for his DSR effort. Langdon had yet to make a start in 2017. This is …
Next week in Houston, a very interesting exhibition is set to take place. No, it’s not jet cars this time. It’s something from a whole different corner of the drag racing universe. Drag racing is actually quite the diverse sport and it takes many different forms on many different levels. In this space, we usually …
One of the most talked about issues in the NHRA, just like in other series is the challenge of getting young people interested in motorsports. With drag racing, generating that interest is not only about the fans, but also about the participants. More than one driver of a certain age has looked around and feared …
The NHRA Mello Yello Series is back in action again this weekend in Las Vegas with the DENSO Spark Plugs NHRA Nationals, the fourth race of the young season. An added element this weekend is the K&N Horsepower Challenge, a special bonus race for the Pro Stock class. If you haven’t heard, the eighth and …
NHRA drag racing has support series just like most other forms of motorsports (i.e. Monster Energy Cup and XFINITY, or Verizon IndyCar and Indy Lights), but there is one big difference between how these other support series function versus how things work in drag racing. In NASCAR, the XFINITY series races as part of the …
Last year, KB Racing absolutely dominated the Pro Stock class, taking home the class championship with Jason Line while teammate Greg Anderson finished the season right behind him in second spot. The two years prior to that, however, belonged to Elite Motorsports and two-time champion Erica Enders. Elite had high hopes after adding five-time champion …
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