Photos by Alex Owens, NHRA, Adam Dobbs FRIDAY QUALIFYING SESSION ONE TOP FUEL (Q1) 1 1 Doug Kalitta, Saline MI, PBRC-AJPE 3.747 338.86 338.86 2 100 Maddi Gordon, Paso Robles
There are plenty of reasons not to lift Friday afternoon at Rockingham Dragway. Now there are a few more.The second qualifying session at the inaugural NHRA Nationals at The Rock
VP Racing Fuels has spent decades supplying racers with what goes into the fuel tank. At this year’s Stampede of Speed, the Texas-based company is bringing something to Texas Motorplex
TOP FUEL Reigning champion Wayne Newby needs to claw back a 16-point gap to series leader Phil Lamattina at the Haltech East Coast Nationals at Sydney Dragway on September 26-27
Imagine Tony Stewart at the NHRA U.S. Nationals trying his best to become invisible. That’s roughly how this storyline started. It was Labor Day weekend in 2009, and Stewart was
There was a time when a race car didn’t need to make a pass to command your attention. Fire a nitro-burning front-engine dragster, let it sit there pounding the ground,
Nobody needed to tell an NHRA driver the Christmas tree at Martin was different. The time slips handled that job just fine. Reaction times that normally would have raised eyebrows
To hear 86-year-old Sam Pourciau tell his drag racing history is a little like sitting on a park bench listening to Forrest Gump. The longer he talks, the more unbelievable
Plenty of sponsors show up in drag racing with a check, a decal and hopes of getting their money’s worth. Scott Kunau showed up seven years ago and went to
JEGS has spent decades selling racers parts over a counter, through a catalog and eventually across a computer screen. Now the familiar yellow-and-black performance parts house has torn into its
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