Drag Racing
NHRA Spring Training Day 3
CHANDLER, Ariz. (February 2, 2018) If there was one word to sum up the third day of Nitro Spring Training it would be consistency. On average, drivers made at least three passes each which allowed for the crew chiefs to get a stable hold of their tune-ups. With...
NHRA Spring Training Day 2
CHANDLER, Ariz. (February 1, 2018) Now that we’re into the second day of Nitro Spring Training we got to see many more full passes than yesterday. The drivers and teams managed to dust off the cobwebs that come with not being on a racetrack in two in a half months....
NHRA Spring Training Day 1
CHANDLER, Ariz. (January 31, 2018) The 2018 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series is fast approaching with little over a week to go until the first race of the season in Pomona. Dozens of Top Fuel, Funny Car, and Pro Stock teams loaded up their haulers and...
Steve Torrence: The People’s Champion
Let’s make one thing clear: Steve Torrence is a fighter. This doesn’t come as a surprise to anyone that knows him. At the age of seventeen, Torrence was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. He underwent radiation and chemotherapy treatments for months before...
A Champion Crowned: Eddie Krawiec
When you think of dominance in the Pro Stock Motorcycle category there’s a chance you think about Screamin’ Eagle Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson. And for good reason; they’ve amassed nine world championships in 13 years. Team rider Andrew Hines has five of his...
A Champion Crowned: Bo Butner
Ask just about any of NHRA’s 35,000 sportsman competitors what their favorite professional class is; they’re likely to tell you it’s Pro Stock. For one long-time fan of the class, his dream just became his reality. In only his third year of competing in the Pro...
A Champion Crowned: Robert Hight
Southern California native Robert Hight clinched his second Funny Car World Championship. He won his first eight years ago in 2009 at this very event. It’s a special occasion not just because it’s his second championship, but it came at his primary sponsor’s event,...
A Champion Crowned: Brittany Force
It took thirty-five years for a woman to sit atop the Top Fuel throne again, but Brittany Force was the woman for the job. There are now only two women in the history of NHRA Drag Racing to win a world championship in Top Fuel. In 1977, 1980, and 1982, racing...
Auto Club NHRA Finals Race Report
POMONA, Calif. (November 12, 2017) Nine long months. Twenty-four excruciating events. We’re back at the racetrack where the season first season began, for the conclusion of the 2017 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series. It was an emotional day as not only were there...
Auto Club NHRA Finals Q3 & Q4
POMONA, Calif. (November 11, 2017) The raceday fields are set for the final race of the 2017 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season. With championships on the line in Top Fuel, Funny Car, and Pro Stock, qualifying high on the ladder and being low of each round...
