New England Funny Cars
As the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series tour heads back to New England this weekend, the 2016 season is about to get real busy with four races in as many weekends, keeping us all on the fly, so to speak, traversing the East Coast and…
Defending event champ Force eager for his turn at success this season
The 2016 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season has been a return to form for the John Force Racing team. Funny Car standout Courtney Force is the points leader and has a victory, Robert Hight has a…
Tricky Tipster's Epping picks
For more than five decades, NHRA National Dragster's famed Tricky Tipster has tested his prognosticating skills prior to each national event, putting odds on the top eight racers he thinks have the best shot at victory in Tricky Tipster.…
Pro Stock shocker: Skillman moves from Elite to Gray team
Pro Stock driver Drew Skillman, the reigning Automobile Club of Southern California Road to the Future Award winner, has parted company with the Elite Motorsports team ahead of this weekend’s NHRA New England Nationals in Epping. In a related…
Event preview: NHRA New England Nationals
The NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series is about to kick things into high gear for the summer, beginning a busy stretch that includes four in a row and seven in eight weeks at this weekend’s NHRA New England Nationals. Race No. 9 of the 2016…
2013 NHRA New England Nationals
This weekend, the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series heads to the East Coast for the 4th annual NHRA New England Nationals in Epping. For this week’s edition of Throwback Thursday, we look through the NHRA National Dragster photo…
Night at the Museum: Calvin Rice
Calvin Rice was crowned the winner of the first NHRA National Championship Drags, held on the 8,000-foot runway at the Great Bend (Kan.) Municipal Airport in late September 1955. Rice, winner of the first regional event of the year, in Colton,…
Langdon looks forward to kick off of busy four-week stretch
Five straight first-round losses wasn’t the ideal way for former Top Fuel world champion Shawn Langdon to start his 2016 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season, especially after a victory closed out his 2015 campaign. That momentum…
Capps loves excitement surrounding NHRA New England Nationals
The 2016 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season marked the start of Ron Capps’ 20th season in Funny Car. There have been plenty of memorable moments across the country, leading to 46 career victories, but racing at historic New England…
Welcome home, SPORTSnationals
On a weekend when a reported 350,000 people attended the 100th running of the Indy 500 and NASCAR’s finest battled it out for 600 miles at the Coca-Cola 600, a huge field of NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series competitors celebrated the long-…
Tasca, PPG reunite for New England event
Bob Tasca III will compete in the NHRA New England Nationals with support from longtime Tasca Racing backer PPG. “My family has used PPG for many years,” said Tasca. “We share a great…
Holding the Line
Can anybody stop Jason Line? The Pro Stock points leader and two-time Mello Yello world champion has completed the best stretch of races in his career in the first eight races of the 2016 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series. He has been in…
2015 NHRA New England Nationals flashback
Tony Schumacher (Top Fuel), John Force (Funny Car), and Greg Anderson (Pro Stock) — all three winners of the event rank as the active wins leaders in their classes — took home victories in their respective categories at the 2015 NHRA…
NHRA returns to New England Dragway
The NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series heads to New Hampshire for the 4th annual NHRA New England Nationals, the ninth of 24 races in the 2016 season. Historic New England Dragway, celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2016, sits about an hour north…
Most consecutive finals
Pro Stock points leader Jason Line is on an incredible streak, having advanced to all eight Pro Stock final rounds this year, but as good as his run is, Line’s eight straight only ranks eighth on the all-time list. Following is a look at the…
Bourgeois leads JEGS NHRA SPORTSnationals winners
Reigning NHRA Comp Eliminator national champion Craig Bourgeois of Metairie, La., led the list of champions crowned on Sunday at the JEGS NHRA SPORTSnationals at Beech Bend Raceway Park in Bowling Green, Ky. Bourgeois drove his nostalgia dragster…
First SPORTSnationals winners named grand marshals
Jimmy Scott Dick Krieger Paul Mercure Bobby Warren Joe Moore The JEGS NHRA SPORTSnationals is an event NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series competitors circle on their calendars each year. It…
Kirby's Funny Car 'supermarket'
For the past five months, we’ve been talking almost exclusively about Funny Cars here – I know, #FirstWorldProblems, right? – so I thought I’d take a look back at a place that was responsible for many of them, Don Kirby’s Funny Car “supermarket…
Worsham to host SoCal Funny Car event Saturday
Memorial Day weekend is the only weekend off for Del Worsham from now until July, but instead of taking a break, the driver of the DHL Toyota Camry Funny Car for Kalitta Motorsports has not only decided…
Muldowney recovering after successful lung surgery
Drag racing legend Shirley Muldowney is resting comfortably and talking with family members and friends a day after surgery in North Carolina to address potential lung cancer concerns. In a four-hour surgery performed Wednesday at Novant Health…
Crew Chief Confidential: Jimmy Prock
Jimmy Prock is among the most renowned crew chiefs in the sport today. The tuner of the Infinite Hero Dodge Charger driven by Jack Beckman has a career total of 71 wins and two championships. Prock began turning wrenches on father Tom’s…
Coughlin family looking forward to JEGS NHRA SPORTSnationals’ return to Bowling Green
Jeg Coughlin Sr., center, with sons, from left, Troy, Mike, Jeg Jr., and John. The JEGS NHRA SPORTSnationals presented by Quick Fuel will bring NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series racers from all over the nation to Beech Bend Raceway Park…
Brad Anderson
In this week’s journey into the NHRA National Dragster photo archives, we look into the file of one of the most accomplished Top Alcohol Funny Car drivers, Brad Anderson. Ranked No. 33 on the NHRA Top 50 Drivers list in 2001, Anderson…
Contingency awards added for JEGS Allstars finalists
NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Sportsman racers who qualify for the JEGS Allstars will have extra incentive to perform this year with the addition of nearly $47,000 in manufacturer contingency awards. Finalists in Top Alcohol Dragster, Top…
K&N Filters extends sponsorship of K&N Horsepower Challenge through 2018
K&N Engineering Inc. has signed a multiyear agreement to extend the company’s sponsorship of the K&N Horsepower Challenge. The K&N Horsepower Challenge is the longest-running specialty event in the NHRA.
“We are very excited to…
Kalitta roundtable: Analyzing the closest race in history
More than a week removed from the Atlanta event, people are still talking about the incredible Top Fuel final between Kalitta Motorsports teammates J.R. Todd and Doug Kalitta that was the closest race in the category’s history. Though there…
AutoAnything will back Beal Racing in 2016
Beal Racing has signed an eight-race primary sponsorship agreement with AutoAnything, a leading eCommerce retailer of car and truck performance products and accessories, for the 2016 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season. After a successful…
Leading ladies
Much has been made about the recent surge in wins by women in the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, including Brittany Force’s first Top Fuel wins in Gainesville and Charlotte as well as Funny Car victories by her sister Courtney and…
Interview with Dale Pulde
Dale Pulde might be your favorite Funny Car driver’s favorite Funny Car driver. Considered one of the most natural drivers in the Funny Car class, Pulde drove 70 different Funny Cars during his lengthy career, which began in 1966 while he was…