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Okay, okay. Maybe not everything. But I’m telling you…this next generation of drag racers are nowhere near the millennial pansy asses that we like...
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We humans need things like this. It’s happening all around us, all around the world, all the time. People latching onto social issues, injustices...
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In the two weeks leading up to the May edition of historic Piedmont Dragway’s Big Dog Shootout, a series of events were taking place...
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“Like a lot of these guys, I grew up street racing,” admits Marty Robertson, co-owner of Fort Worth, Texas-based new-and-used racing equipment specialist EliteHP,...
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Longtime track operator Jeff Miles has started a new chapter of his career, as the South Carolina native has been named the president of...
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It feels like they’re stacking up. It really does. Six races into the 2022 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series Season, at least one...
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In case you missed it, the NHRA Spring Nationals at Houston Raceway Park absolutely, positively lived up to the hype surrounding what appears to...
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South Florida’s Palm Beach International Raceway (formerly Moroso Motorsports Park) is one of the handful of tracks expected to close at the hand of...
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Melanie Salemi’s string of jaw-dropping runs in Pro Boost at the PDRA East Coast Nationals last weekend didn’t come as a surprise to Salemi...
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If you ever wondered what a damn-near-flawless doorslammer show looks like, this past weekend’s season-opening PDRA East Coast Nationals may well be the example...
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While still an enjoyable debate amongst drag racing purists, the success and popularity of NHRA’s four-wide drag racing experiment is impossible to deny and...
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When the PDRA launched its Pro Street class as a three-race trial in 2020, the class allowed drag radials or slicks to attract racers...
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It’s a new year for PDRA’s Liberty’s Gears Extreme Pro Stock presented by AED Competition, and if offseason predictions prove correct, it will be...
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Daniel Pharris fired off the shot heard ‘round the radial racing world when he recorded a 3.498-second, 212.73 mph blast down the South Georgia...
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In a sport that features many different segments, each with invisible walls dividing groups that are more similar than they are different, Brian Lohnes...
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At just 23 years old, third-generation racer Tyler Bohannon made bracket racing history when he became just the second winner of the Great American...
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Just three races into the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series season, admittedly, we only know so much. That’s not to say, however, that there aren’t some...
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With the Coughlin last name comes significant responsibility, a major spotlight and a bloodline among the greatest in drag racing history. Paige Coughlin, the...
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The 64th annual Bakersfield March Meet at the historic Famoso Dragstrip turned out to be a race against the weather with Nostalgia Drag Racing...
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The entire Drag Illustrated team was incredibly saddened to hear of the unexpected passing of beloved Pro Mod racer Scott Oksas on Sunday, March...
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“It’s time? OK, I’ll be right out.” It’s around 8:15 p.m. on a Wednesday and Ryan Martin is getting called back to set for...
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The state of Florida has played an important role in drag racing history over the years and it has seen its fair share of...
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Smoke had just filled the burnout area of Cleetus McFarland’s Freedom Factory and Lyle Barnett made sure he was prepared. He was the culprit...
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Esteemed drag racing photographer Richard Shute, who owns the famed Auto Imagery archive, celebrated his 50th year of professionally pointing the lens at drag...
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Before the 2021 season, Daryl Stewart was away from drag racing for 25 years. The former South Florida bracket racer found the ideal scenario...
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Collectively, 2021 wasn’t Kurt Steding’s best year yet in PDRA Pro Boost. He missed the fourth race of the season due to a surgery...
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Life is great when things go as planned…and when they don’t, well, sometimes it’s even better! I experienced that exact thing recently when news...
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The late Tim Slavens’ legacy will carry on this season, as Team Wolverine announced Wednesday that Slaven’s longtime friend and crew chief, Mark “Tydo”...
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After several years of chasing a win at Duck X Productions’ “Super Bowl of small-tire racing,” Ken Quartuccio finally has a Lights Out hammer...
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When Griffin Steinfeld jumped into action as a stunt driver on the set of the 2018 film Bumblebee, he set into motion a chain...
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Justin “Lil’ Country” Swanstrom set some major goals when he set out on his first full season in Street Outlaws: No Prep Kings competition...
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In the eyes of many in the mid-2000s, drag radial racing had the potential to become a breakout segment of the sport. There were...
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At just 24, “Quick” Nick Schroeder has already shown the eighth-mile outlaw racing world that he has the tuning knowledge of someone twice his...
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As Buddy Perkinson says, he’s been around for a while. He burst onto the NHRA scene when he was in his late teens after...
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Most West Coast drag racers are familiar with the name Marko Perivolaris, as well they should be. Perivolaris is a multi-time division and national...
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The recently crowned Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Top Dragster national champion has an interesting story in that he hadn’t won a race until...
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Courtney Paulshock might not come from a racing family nor does she have a deep racing background, but she’s quickly immersed herself in the...
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In his first full Pro Mod season, Joey Oksas is already surpassing expectations. The young standout came onto the Mid-West Drag Racing Series scene...
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Tom Bailey isn’t shy about his goals for Sick Week, the drag-and-drive event hosted by his magazine, Sick the Magazine. When Bailey unloads his...
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