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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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Top Alcohol Dragster teammates Justin Ashley and Megan Meyer both grew up at the racetrack cheering on their successful racing fathers, but their days...
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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...
Driver Blogs
The journey of driving a Top Fuel Dragster has really only begun for me, but one thing that has stuck out from the beginning...
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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...
Driver Blogs
As we step into my sophomore year in the Top Alcohol Dragster class, my crew and I have been quite busy since my final...
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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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A decade ago, a young Jason Hamstra shot to the forefront of Pro Mod, back when the class was still primarily contested in IHRA....
Drag Radial
It’s Monday afternoon following DuckX Productions’ Lights Out 8 at South Georgia Motorsports Park. The cowboy hats have been passed out, winner’s circle photos...
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The Lights Out 8 marathon is coming to a close today as most racers go into eliminations and Radial vs. the World competitors resume...
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Ryan Rakestraw began his drag racing fame early, winning the 2007 ORSCA Modified Street Championship while driving for Scott Taber. He continued driving for...
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DI photographer Chris Sears was on the grounds at South Georgia Motorsports Park on Wednesday for the first day of Lights Out 8, capturing shots...
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“Race cars are all I know,” Albrecht said. But never in his wildest dreams did he imagine a year like 2016 transpiring. Albrecht had...
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At 3:00 PM eastern standard time on Monday, February 15th, roughly 72 hours before the first round of qualifying was set to begin for...
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Michigan-based racer Alex “The Calypso Kid” Hays is no stranger to adrenaline and excitement. By day, the 27-year-old works as a registered nurse in...
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Ty Tutterow has been around racing his entire life. It’s a sport he’s been fed turned into a passion he now eats, sleeps, and...
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On the heels of his blockbuster announcement earlier this week that he would make his J&A Services NHRA Pro Mod debut this season and...
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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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One of outlaw racing’s most beloved characters, yet feared competitors, is about to jump into the high-profile world of legal Pro Mod racing. Steve...
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First of all, it is a huge honor and privilege to be writing a blog for Drag Illustrated! It is truly amazing how great...
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Barry Mitchell will have a difficult time topping his incredible double-up weekend from Lights Out 7 a year ago. But early results leading up...
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Drag Illustrated Senior Staff Writer Van Abernethy usually goes solo whenever he rolls into America’s dragstrips, taking with him only a camera, a laptop, and...
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Working alongside the staff of South Georgia Motorsports Park, Donald “Duck” Long and his Duck X Productions team are well underway with their cleanup...
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NHRA Top Fuel driver J.R. Todd enjoyed a banner season in 2016 as a third-year driver for motorsports legend Connie Kalitta and his Ypsilanti,...
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When big-money bracket race promoters Peter Biondo and Kyle Seipel announced the creation of the Spring Fling Vegas Million last year, the bracket racing...
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Sportsman drag racers have long been the backbone of drag racing, but the sportsman racing scene has transformed drastically from its early days when...
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It came to Russell Stephens’ attention at MSD Ignition two or three years back. Steve Matusek of Aeromotive Fuel Systems noticed it for the...
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Haley James admits it was “nerve wracking” the first time she took center stage on the starting line of a National Mustang Racers Association...
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A light Bay-area fog blankets the picturesque grounds of Sonoma Raceway as Scott Palmer and his small band of nitro outlaws pack up their...
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Rico Dragstrip continues to forge ahead with ongoing renovations, which have dramatically improved the facility in recent years. Famously, this unsanctioned eighth-mile track located...
