An epic Epping
An action-packed NHRA New England Nationals may not have been executed as it was drawn up, but it was an event that people will be talking about for a long while. The Funny Car category itself stole the show once again. The first round of…
Best of Epping
It took an extra day to complete the 2016 NHRA New England Nationals, but it was well worth the wait because fans were treated to a great day of racing action under sunny, blue skies. Antron Brown (Top Fuel), Ron Capps (Funny Car), and Greg …
Rain postpones NHRA New England Nationals
NHRA officials postponed eliminations for the NHRA New England Nationals at New England Dragway until Monday, June 6, following a day of lengthy rain delays. Officials worked during the course of the day to dry the track, but intermittent and steady…
Top 20 Funny Cars: Introducing No. 16
As part of NHRA’s 50 years of Funny Car celebration, fans voted on a Top 20 list developed by respected drag racing historians and Funny Car experts. The results are being revealed in reverse order at NHRA national events this season …
Beckman makes highlight reel with big boomer
Jack Beckman endured a major explosion in the Infinite Hero Dodge Charger during Saturday’s first qualifying session. Just as Beckman was getting off the gas between the two eighth-mile cones, an enormous engine explosion took place that blew…
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…
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.…
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…
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…