Twenty-five years ago, Chip King rolled a Dodge Avenger into Gainesville Raceway for NHRA’s first Pro Modified exhibition and qualified No. 2 with a 6.243-second run at 211.06 mph. Bill

Jack Beckman knows the math, understands the predicament and isn’t pretending a No. 1 qualifying position in St. Louis suddenly fixed everything. What it did was give Beckman exactly what

World Wide Technology Raceway sold out Saturday for the sixth consecutive year, and by the time qualifying was finished, there was little mystery about who had the best race cars.

Photos by: Alex Owens, Auto Imagery SATURDAY NOTEBOOK – SELLOUT CROWD SEES LANGDON, BECKMAN, TROY COUGHLIN JR., HERRERA SECURE NO. 1 STARTING SPOTS; GORDON SETS TRACK SPEED MARK; HARTMAN WINS

Friday night qualifying is where crew chiefs quit hedging their bets and start showing their hands. Alexis DeJoria and John Force Racing showed theirs at World Wide Technology Raceway, and

Photos by Alex Owens, Auto Imagery SATURDAY QUALIFYING – BECKMAN, LANGDON, COUGHLIN AND HERRERA LEAD THE WAY BEFORE ST. LOUIS SELLOUT World Wide Technology Raceway sold out Saturday for the

Brian Inouye has spent most of his life around nitro race cars, washing parts, installing body panels, turning wrenches and eventually driving them. Now comes the part the kid hanging

Who could have imagined history playing out the way it did last Sunday at Rockingham Dragway? Certainly not Matt Hagan, who arrived there in 2008 as a Funny Car driver

Paul Smith is 80 years old, has been racing nitro cars longer than some of his competitors have been alive and knows exactly when he plans to retire. When he’s

There will be plenty of pink in the SCAG Racing pits at St. Louis, but calling it a paint-scheme weekend would miss the point by a mile. When SCAG’s cars

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