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Drag & Drive Exhibition Featuring Alex Taylor, Tom Bailey Set for NHRA’s Return to Chicagoland
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Reigning Funny Car World Champ Ron Capps Earns First No. 1 Qualifier of the 2023 NHRA Season
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The Wes Buck Show – WSOPM Champ Spencer Hyde, MMPS Invitational Winner John Montecalvo – Mar. 15, 2023
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The Wes Buck Show – Drag Illustrated Awards – Feb. 15, 2023
The Wes Buck Show – EP. 289
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It’s the event designed to test the heartiest of racer. Drag racing is a sprint. The Nitrous Outlet Street Car Super Nationals 14 Presented...
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Raised by a mother and father who both raced, Austin Williams began his career behind the wheel at age eight, racing Jr. Dragsters. Once...
Blogs
You know that feeling when your favorite NHRA racer is having an incredible weekend and then loses in the first round on Sunday? Sucks,...
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The Rust-Oleum Rocket is on jack stands. The supercharger is on a table next to the car. Most of the livery is off, the...
Race Coverage
This weekend, to celebrate what makes America great as we remember those no longer with us, the Premier Street Car Association and the Mid-West...
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Eric Latino discovered last year, when DRAG ILLUSTRATED Founder and Editorial Director Wes Buck puts on an event, he doesn’t play. The World Series of...
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A couple years ago, a discussion broke out in the media center at an NHRA National event. Doesn’t it seem as though parachutes on...
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The youth movement has arrived in NHRA Pro Stock. As we see beloved veterans such as V. Gaines, Larry Morgan, and 2012 class champion...
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Like watching a child open gifts on Christmas, there is a similar joy when watching one become a drag racing fan. Many of the...
Features
One of the great things about being a long-time fan of motorsports—or of anything, for that matter—is the ability to say, “I remember when...
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The iconic yellow & black Corvette of Troy Coughlin arrived at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway with the intention of winning the...
Features
If you’re like me, the idea of launching down the drag strip, knuckles white on the steering wheel as the dirty, greasy speed of...
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Nearly ten years ago when Bruton Smith announced he was building a 4-wide, world-class drag racing facility as part of the Charlotte Motor Speedway...
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Late Saturday night of last week, it was announced Troy Coughlin Jr. was stepping away from the seat of his Top Fuel ride at...
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Within the realm of motorsports, names like Petty, Allison, Andretti, Earnhardt, and Wallace shine, placing three or more generations on the race track over...
Drag Radial
One of the great things about being a long-time fan of motorsports—or of anything, for that matter—is the ability to say, “I remember when...
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Swedish Pro Mod pilot Adam Flamholc is racing at Gateway Motorsports Park this weekend as part of the Street Car Super Nationals: Anarchy Under...
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In this life, there are people who wait for things to happen and there are people who make things happen. Canadian Pro Mod veteran...
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Currently a single point behind three-time and defending NHRA Pro Mod champion Rickie Smith in 11th place, Danny Rowe hasn’t had a terrible NHRA...
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Seeing the summer days dissolve into one another toward their inevitable journey to fall, it’s not difficult to understand why we want time to...
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If there’s any thought to how one Steve Jackson is viewing the upcoming Drag Illustrated World Series of Pro Mod presented by One Cure...
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Jason Hamstra earned the Mid-West Pro Mod Series victory Saturday at Gateway Motorsports Park when top qualifier Keith Haney was unable to stage his...
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Drag racing’s kinda weird, man. Case in point: Von Smith. A former NHRA Pro Mod champ. Winner of last year’s US Nationals. Where is...
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Continuing a relationship entering its fourth year, the Premier Street Car Association is kicking off its St. Louis schedule at Gateway Motorsports Park April...
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“If I ran this place…” Sound familiar? Racers spending any amount of time in staging lanes at drag strips all over the world have...
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Notable by his absence last year within the ranks of the NHRA Pro Stock class was racer/engine builder/awesome interviewee Larry Morgan. While some may...
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Two years ago, three-time NHRA Top Fuel champion Larry Dixon made headlines and highlight reels all over the world with his spectacular crash at...
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The NHRA Mello Yello Series is getting a taste of no-prep racing. Shannon Morgan is bringing her No Redemption racing series to Royal Purple...
Drag Radial
It’s hard to be the best, but Mark Menscer does his humble best. The former dirt Late Model racer-turned-drag racing guru saw his customers...
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There’s something about that first race of the season. For many racers, it’s been an offseason cooped up in the shop, rebuilding the car,...
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Last August, an explosion at the Airgas plant in Cantonment, Fla., killed an employee, Jesse Graham Folmer, and forced the facility to shut down....
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UPDATE: Drag Illustrated spoke to Matt Smith about Monday’s statement from Polaris Industries regarding their decision to shut down the the Victory Motorcycles brand....
Features
Not all racers are drivers. The term “racer” describes those within the realm of motorsports epitomizing the spirt of the lifestyle. The word is...
Features
If Texas is the home of no-prep drag racing, Shannon Morgan is its queen. A racing purist from rural Arkansas, the founder of the...
Race Coverage
Mike Bowman (Precision Turbo Pro Mod) and Mike Maggio (Flying A Outlaw Pro Mod) scored upset victories Sunday night in the finals of the JEGS...
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At any drag race in America, fans are guaranteed to see more than a couple Novas, Mustangs, and Camaros. Beautiful pieces of Detroit iron,...
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A two-time Outlaw Pro Mod winner of the JEGS Performance Street Car Super Nationals, Troy Coughlin knows how to navigate the quarter mile here...
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Some of the biggest names in doorslammer racing, including Keith Haney and three-time and reigning NHRA Pro Mod champ Rickie Smith, competed at last...
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It takes a special set of circumstances for Keith Haney to choose racing over family. Earlier this year, the driver of “Notorious” and the...
