Photos by Alex Owens, Auto Imagery, Mike and Jeff Burghardt FRIDAY NOTEBOOK – A PACKED HOUSE FAST FRIDAY HALTED WITH ANOTHER REAR END FAILURE 1 – TOP FUEL HITS LOW
Photos by: Alex Owens, Auto Imagery, Mike and Jeff Burghardt FRIDAY QUALIFYING – VANDERGRIFF BLASTS TO YEAR’S QUICKEST FUNNY CAR RUN AS KALITTA, VANG LEAD SONOMA QUALIFYING Jordan Vandergriff didn’t
Jordan Vandergriff didn’t just leave Sonoma Raceway atop the Funny Car qualifying order Friday. He left with the quickest Funny Car pass of the 2026 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing
If the first installment of this conversation confirmed Bill Bader Jr. as one of drag racing’s foremost visionaries, the second half reveals the practical side of that vision. Bader doesn’t
Aflac will continue its relationship with Kalitta Motorsports in 2026, renewing its partnership with the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series team and returning as the primary sponsor for Doug
Dylan Winefsky will make his third NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series appearance of the season this weekend, hoping continued seat time translates into his first-round victory in Funny Car
They weren’t marching to the NHRA Tech trailer with torches and pitchforks, but that didn’t mean there weren’t spirited opinions flowing throughout the hauler lounges. The majority of crew chiefs
Few people in drag racing are better positioned to evaluate the sport than Bill Bader Jr. As president and owner of Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio, Bader represents the
For more than four decades, Marvin Benoit was one of drag racing’s quiet innovators, a man whose fingerprints can be found on thousands of race cars and whose willingness to
The Wirth brothers don’t work on the same race team anymore, and that’s probably a good thing. Ask either Travis or Ryan Wirth about the time they shared the same
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