If Santo Rapisarda taught his eight children anything, it’s to pursue their passions. The Australian Top Fuel team owner who mixes and matches his drivers and continents with globetrotting gusto

Ted Jones had an open-door policy with IHRA founder Larry Carrier, and while he tried to not wear out his welcome, on a fall day in 1976 he couldn’t resist

In 1979, Ben Donhoff rescued a wrecked, ex-Don Carlton ’72 Duster Pro Stock car from a south-Florida warehouse. “A lot of people just assume it’s a clone car, but this

Six-time NHRA champion Kenny Bernstein has turned the final page and closed the book on his career as a competitor and NHRA racing team owner. “My wife Sheryl and I

As Melanie Troxel pulled off the track following her quarter-final loss to Cruz Pedregon during the NHRA AAA Finals, the engine on her In-N-Out Funny Car refired sending the Toyota

For years, Johnny Pilcher and his midnight-black ’63 Corvette were staples of the ADRL Pro Nitrous class, but after a 14-hour drive from Chancellor, Alabama, he showed up at the

Former NHRA Funny Car world champ Phil Castronovo died Oct. 15. He was 69. Castronovo claimed the championship by winning the NHRA World Finals at Amarillo Dragway in 1971, where

Mention the name Don Carlton and Satch Gragg’s eyes still well up with tears. Time is supposed to heal all wounds but for the IHRA race official who grew up

The Summit Racing Equipment Tournament of Champions is held at the conclusion of each season and features a runoff of the top sportsman drivers in each of IHRA’s seven sportsman