Pro Modified racer Justin Bond has a new, and slick piece that recently rolled out of the Jerry Bickel Race Cars shop. 

Bond, a two-time winner in NHRA Pro Modified, will run this car with a Procharger but from what we hear a supercharger cannot be ruled out either. Either way, it's a beautiful machine to look at. 

Unheralded Paul Cannuli upstaged his better-credentialled rivals to take the win in Pro Slammer at the Gulf Western Oil Winternationals at Willowbank Raceway, June 9-12.

Vying with Cannuli’s win as the highlight of the meet was veteran Steve Reed winning his seventh Winternational crown in Pro Alcohol.

Category front-runner George Tsakiridis claimed the honors in Pro Mod. local hero Aaron Tremayne won Pro Stock and Top bike warrior Chris Matheson added another gold Christmas tree to the trophy cabinet.

Rickie Smith had a simple objective, make it to the end of the season without going broke.

Remaining solvent was Smith's mindset 40 years ago, in 1982 when the decorated sportsman world champion who turned professional drag racer entered his first season as a team owner.

Smith learned much about himself that season despite sharing the same mindset as his critics. He had no clue he would survive, much less win a world championship.

Tasca Racing is bringing Bob Tasca III and his 12,000-horsepower TascaParts.com Ford Shelby Mustang to Bristol, looking to go back to the winner’s circle at the NHRA Thunder Nationals in Bristol, TN. The event runs June 17–19 as part of the 2022 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series.

TascaParts.com is back for the Bristol race as the primary sponsor of Tasca’s Nitro Mustang Funny Car. 

 
Upon Ryan Oehler’s own admission, the last 18 months have been a struggle for his NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle team.

In 2021, he had one win in Las Vegas but struggled at the end of the season and finished 10th in the points standing. In 2022, he is 13th in the points standings and has an 0-4 elimination round record. 

These results came on the heels of his solid performance in the COVID-19 limited 2020 season, where he finished seventh in the points and had one win at the first race in Indianapolis that season.

LE Tonglet had not competed in NHRA’s Pro Stock Motorcycle class since 2018 before putting his feet back in the racing waters for the SpringNationals, April 22-24 in Houston.

Now, Tonglet, NHRA’s 2010 Pro Stock Motorcycle world champion and former rookie of the year, is going to fill in for and pilot the Steamfitters UA Local 602 Suzuki owned and ridden by Kelly Clontz at the next two events – the Thunder Valley Nationals, June 17-19 in Bristol, Tenn., and the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals, June 23-26 in Norwalk, Ohio.

Clontz is taking a two-race medical leave of absence.
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Every door car and dragster at Frank Hawley’s Drag Racing School makes countless laps down the dragstrip as it carries eager competitors and thrill-seekers alike through the traps at high speeds. Under the hood, though, the big block Chevrolet power built by Scoggin Dickey Parts Center’s Raceshop is the key to the cars being able to run with consistency, durability, and reliability.

With a full schedule of licensing classes and exciting experiences offered nonstop throughout the United States all year long, there’s a lot of pressure on the School’s competition vehicles to perform day in and day out without issue. To achieve this, Frank Hawley’s Drag Racing School keeps a robust supply of engines at the ready to rotate in and out as needed and relies on SDPC and its Raceshop to keep them running strong.

Don Prudhomme is already a legend in drag racing. Next Sunday, June 19, 2022, at Bristol Dragway, the facility formerly known as Thunder Valley, will induct him into their ring of honor equivalent, the Legends of Thunder Valley.

Prudhomme remains an icon in the sport, long after his days of driving the U.S. Army Funny Car when he won four consecutive championships starting in 1974 and completed his career with 49 national event titles. He joins such names as Speedway Motorsports executive chairman Bruton Smith, NHRA Founder Wally Parks, Top Fuel legend Don Garlits, Funny Car champ John Force and NHRA team owner Don Schumacher, among others.

Prudhomme, 81, retired from driving and also earned two more world championships and 55 victories as an NHRA team owner in the late 1990s-2000s.