The John Force Racing, Inc., Yorba Linda, California, corporate headquarters, theater, showroom and museum are available now for holiday and special event rentals. This unique corporate or family event facility is located just minutes from downtown Los Angeles and Newport Beach. The three story multi-use facility, home of the legendary racing dynasty, can transform any sales meeting, corporate holiday event, or family reunion into an unforgettable experience.

“We have hosted many team and sponsor events at the Yorba Linda facility and now is the perfect time to open this facility up for public rentals. We have recently remodeled the main building to include the John Force RaceStation retail store and the museum has been updated with additional race cars and memorabilia. This facility has been a passion project for me highlighting my history and the history of my family on the NHRA tour,” said John Force, 16-time Funny Car champion and CEO of John Force Racing, Inc.

"Notorious" isn't done yet in 2016.
 
Keith Haney Racing and driver Keith Haney will take their Lucas Oil/RacingJunk.com Pro Nitrous Chevrolet - nicknamed Notorious - to the American Drag Racing League Dragstock XI race this weekend at Gateway Motorsports Park.

The two finalists for the 50 years of Funny Car celebration were announced at the NHRA SEMA Breakfast at Las Vegas on Wednesday. The iconic 1973 Chevy Vega driven by “Jungle Jim” Liberman and the 1996 Castrol Pontiac Firebird driven by John Force were selected by the fans as the top two legendary machines.
 
The winner will be announced at the Auto Club NHRA Finals in Pomona, Calif. Nov. 10-13.

 As promised, Steve Torrence hosted Antron Brown at his Kilgore, Texas, home for a few days after Brown beat him in the final round of the most recent race near Dallas.

Torrence jokingly hinted that Texas hospitality wasn’t uppermost in his mind. “My only chance [to win the championship] was to hold Antron hostage for a couple weeks in Kilgore,” he said. But Brown had the cowboy hat traditionally awarded to the winner of the AAA Texas FallNationals, so Torrence had to school him in cowboy life, Texas style.

Together they enjoyed eating barbecue, Mexican food, and pecan cobbler – and target shooting with everything from rifles to shotguns to fully automatic machine guns and Rambo-like 50-caliber weapons.

With four separate races paying as much as $20,000 to the winner on Saturday, with $10,000 up for grabs by the winner in each of the three remaining races, it’ll be an exciting time for all attendees.

Contested on the eighth-mile, big buck bracket racing typically involves dragsters and the like with a heavy emphasis on electronics. Only recently though, door cars have been making headway when it comes to race wins, and the latest is an invitation for footbrake racers (no electronics) to come and join the party. It’s a concept that has become increasingly popular.

Union County Dragway, located minutes south of Union, S.C., has joined the NHRA Member Track Network within the Southeastern Division, NHRA’s Division 2, which features tracks from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Puerto Rico.
 
The facility, originally opened in 2008, will run a full schedule of events for the 2017 season from February to November. Track owner Gilbert Jacobs and track consultant Kurt Johnson of Total Venue Concepts, will run a wide range of events including a season long points series, grudge racing and an active slate of small tire shootouts.

Sometimes race car drivers are referred to as “pilots.”
 
Cruz Pedregon literally flew to a first-round victory in the first round of the NHRA Toyota Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway for undoubtedly the most bizarre pass in his extensive Funny Car career.

Tony Pedregon is a former NHRA Funny Car driver, FOX TV commentator, painter, and one-time boxer – and maybe a wise advisor to Top Fuel’s Antron Brown.

Pedregon borrowed from a concept reminiscent of martial artist and pop-culture icon Bruce Lee when he shared some inspiration. Brown listened, and it has paid off with a second straight and third overall Mello Yello Drag Racing Series championship.