Matt Latino was standing in line for a rental car in Cancun, trying to squeeze in a family vacation before the calendar flips fully to race mode. Those free days
Jack Wyatt has never measured his Funny Car career by championships or headlines, but by persistence. As he enters his 50th consecutive year racing Funny Cars, Wyatt stands as a
NHRA has named Antron Brown, Ron Capps, Greg Anderson, Matt Smith, and Dan Fletcher as the second group of inductees into the Top 75 Drivers list as part of the
There’s coming close, and then there’s how Lyle Barnett nearly stepped into Top Fuel at a moment when professional opportunity collided with personal timing. The opening was real, advanced, and
Introduction In drag racing, “Top Fuel” refers to the fastest class of dragsters, featuring the quickest accelerating racing cars in the world. Top Fuel is the quickest, fastest class in
Imagine 11,000 horsepower trapped under a carbon-fiber shell, lighting off nitromethane and clawing its way to more than 330 mph in under four seconds. That’s funny car drag racing; violent,
Introduction Brittany Force is a two-time NHRA Top Fuel world champion, the holder of both national elapsed time and speed records, and one of the most accomplished drivers in drag
John Force is a 16-time NHRA Funny Car world champion and the winningest driver in NHRA history, with 157 national event victories between 1987 and 2024. Born May 4, 1949,
For as long as Will Smith can remember, he has wanted to drive a Top Fuel dragster. That ambition finally became reality Thursday when Smith was announced as a full-time
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