Deep in the heart of Texas, John Andretti had a feeling deep in his own heart that he might have made a really poor decision.

There he sat in Major League Baseball All-Star Jack Clark’s NHRA Top Fuel dragster for an engine warm-up, beginning to wonder why he had agreed to such an enterprise. After all, Andretti swore he truly didn’t have a clue about this unique type of race car, except that it had four wheels, a steering wheel, and an engine. And he hadn’t gotten any pointers from anyone about how to drive this thing.

“I climbed in with the rear wheels jacked up off the ground, and they started the engine. I couldn’t hear anything! And I certainly didn’t know they initially start the car using a (relatively mild) alcohol-based fuel.” He said, “‘This thing doesn’t seem that sporty,’ I thought.”  

If there's an age limit when it comes to chasing your dream, someone forgot to tell Ron Allison.

Allison, 76, and from Sparta, Tenn., never envisioned he'd get a crack at racing Super Stock, but there he was in Holt, Fla., on Saturday killing it.

Allison's dream was delayed 53 years from the day he dreamed of racing a Super Stock car. He was in his 20s when he decided to take the plunge into Super Stock racing. Allison built a car, but before he could get the car up to full speed, life got in the way.

Steve Davis closed out the 2020 season by driving his "Spinny" Chevy II to the A/Gas title, stopping Leslie Horne's "Chick Magnet" Chevy in the final rounds.

Joining Lee in the winner's circle was Cody Welch (B/Gas), Charlie Lee (C/Gas), and Robert Pelfrey (Super Stock).

Drag racing Legend Harold "Bo" Laws passed away on November 21, 2020. 

Laws began business in 1965 as an automotive repair shop named Bo Laws Automotive. By 1970, the small firm grew to five employees successfully tuning and race prepping Corvettes and muscle cars, quickly advancing his expertise to building drag race engines.

In 1973, Laws purchased an old building at 1015 W. Church Street in Orlando, Fla., which had been condemned and was part of an estate sale. The building was later expanded to 15,000 square feet and still serves as company headquarters, manufacturing racing products for customers around the world.

Dom Lagana is finally home.

The NHRA tuner/driver was injured in a non-racing automobile accident on August 9, 2020, and has been hospitalized ever since.

"103 days in the hospital since my accident on August 9th, and I'm happy to say that I'm finally back home," Lagana said. "I had severely bad burns to my body, which resulted in my lower legs getting amputated. This hasn't been an easy journey, but I am so lucky to have such an amazing support system around me. I am forever indebted to all the doctors, nurses, and therapists who saved my life.

Driver of the Strutmasters.com powered by MANSCAPED™ Top Fuel dragster and 2020 NHRA Rookie of the Year Justin Ashley took some time to reflect on his successful rookie season. The young driver also looked ahead to a longer than usual off-season as well as his plans and goals for the 2021 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series season which will begin in March.

Day Two of the COMP Cams Street Car Super Nationals 16 Presented by FuelTech at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway was capped off under the lights Friday by a trio of 4-Wide grudge races. Twelve racers were divided into three "quads," each putting $5,000 of their own money on the line with the winner pocketing a cool $20,000 for approximately six seconds of track time.

Each quad consisted of two small-tire cars and two big-tire cars. With LVMS' unique layout of four lanes, a small-tire class can run on one pair of lanes while Jeff Foster's world-class drag crew preps the other two lanes for the next big-tire class.

Preparations for the 2021 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series season are well underway at Cruz Pedregon Racing (CPR) headquarters as team owner Cruz Pedregon announced the following changes to the CPR team roster today. Accomplished tuner John Collins will be taking over the crew chief duties on the Snap-on Tools Dodge Charger Nitro Funny Car in 2021. Collins most recently led the Make-A-Wish Nitro Funny Car team and driver Tommy Johnson Jr. to a second-place points finish in the 2020 season. Collins will be joined at CPR by the entire crew that powered Johnson Jr. to four final rounds and three wins in 2020. 

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