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DI Women of Power 2022: Consistency is Key for Jessica Ogden
Tommy Franklin, Pat Musi Racing Engines Hold Commanding Lead in PDRA Nitrous Wars After First Half of 2022 Season
Reigning Top Fuel Champions Steve Torrence Nominated for 2022 ESPYS Award
DI Women of Power 2022: Tony Stewart Racing’s Kelly Antonelli
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Race Winning Brands Acquires Haltech
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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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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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In the not-so-distant past, NHRA Pro Stock was viewed as a dying class. It was an oddity to see a full 16-car field, and...
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Ida Zetterström is a name you should remember. She’s a young, ambitious woman from Aland Islands, Finland, on a mission to become a household...
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Dr. Jamie Meyer arrives at Martin, Michigan’s U.S. 131 Motorsports Park for the NMRA/NMCA Power Festival, the latest stop on the PRI Road Tour....
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It’s a hot, humid Mississippi evening and Gaylon Rolison Jr. is on his way home from the office. He’s been in meetings all afternoon,...
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Reigning NHRA Camping World Series Funny Car champion Matt Hagan will return to competition this weekend at the NHRA Carolina Nationals in Concord, N.C....
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One quiet Thursday afternoon in June, Leah Pruett and her fiancé, Tony Stewart, find themselves in a fairly rare situation once the racing season...
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For at least the last 15 years or so, Mountain Motor Pro Stock has been in a state of flux. It’s bounced around from...
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TJ Zizzo, driver of the Rust-Oleum Rocket Top Fuel dragster, competes throughout the year in the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) on the Camping...
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Nicole Liberty rolled into the NMRA/NMCA Super Bowl of Street-Legal Drag Racing at World Wide Technology Raceway near St. Louis merely hoping to have...
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A dream two years in the making is now a satisfying, successful reality for Kelly Wade. The veteran and talented drag racing journalist’s first...
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It is with purpose and passion that JP and Phil Gutierrez compete in the challenging Top Alcohol Dragster category. They are ambitious and adamant,...
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Kyle Seipel, one of the most influential and beloved personalities in sportsman racing, passed away June 22. The 50-year-old Californian was fighting a vicious...
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For more than a decade, Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio has successfully hosted the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals. The park has staged...
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For many years, it was a forgone conclusion that the possibility of a 64-car Funny Car show died off in the 1970s. Never again...
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The PDRA is racing at Summit Motorsports Park for the first time this weekend, and one of the biggest stories of the weekend is...
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Three races into the 2021 NHRA Camping World Series season, Funny Car standout Bob Tasca III finds himself at the top of the class...
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Legendary engine builder Sonny Leonard passed away Sunday, January 10, 2021, at age 77. News of Leonard’s passing spread quickly on social media Sunday...
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Randy Meyer has guided his drivers to nearly every accomplishment imaginable in the NHRA’s Top Alcohol Dragster class. His drivers collectively have won two...
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Justin Elkes had spent 15 years in Pro Stock, which accounted for thousands upon thousands of runs. He had enjoyed plenty of success at...
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Frank Gugliotta has experienced his fair share of highlights behind the wheel of an 800-plus-cubic-inch Mountain Motor Pro Stock car. He competed in IHRA...
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Randy Meyer has guided his drivers to nearly every accomplishment imaginable in the NHRA’s Top Alcohol Dragster class. His drivers collectively have won two...
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A remarkable thing happened this summer. Without question, the COVID-19 pandemic put a pause and a disruption on nearly everything it has touched. But...
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Jim Howe Jr. is a man on a mission. While his supercharged ’68 Camaro bears the small logos of a handful of partners, it’s...
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As the general manager and national event director for the NMCA and NMRA, Rollie Miller is accustomed to making a fair deal of difficult...
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Jim Halsey’s life is practically consumed by drag racing. He and Cathy Crouse, his girlfriend of over 30 years, own and operate Cecil County...
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When it comes to nitrous oxide-assisted drag racing, Mike Thermos is considered one of the originators. He co-founded Nitrous Oxide Systems with partner Dale...
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If there’s a conventional route to running an electric dragster, Steve Huff surely didn’t take it. With a punk rock attitude, incredible intelligence and...
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When Osage Casino Tulsa Raceway Park announced it would not only host its popular Throwdown in T-Town race, but also allow spectators, it made...
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Stevie “Fast” Jackson has been able to get his Radial vs. the World fix during this ongoing COVID-19 public health crisis, but the reigning...
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Paul Lee’s story is about racing. But it’s also about friends and family, and maybe most importantly, perseverance. Lee had just enjoyed a strong...
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Top Fuel veteran T.J. Zizzo is feeling good and these days, well, that means a lot. In the midst of a global pandemic, his...
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When Jim “J.K.” Kelly retired from his management position at VP Racing Fuels late in May 2015, he could’ve taken up the typical retirement...
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Judy Franklin just wants to go the racetrack. It’s a place that’s increasingly become a second home for her over the last two decades....
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By virtue of a few rule changes, Pro 275 has unearthed a whole new world of possibilities. With Radial vs. the World continuing to...
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It’s been a minute since my last sit-down interview with John Force – almost eight years – and it’s hard to overstate how much...
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Outside Don Garlits’ central Florida home, which sits on 20-acres of ground just off of I-75 in the city of Ocala, stands a 25,000-square...
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Longtime nitrous Pro Modified racer Chris Rini enjoyed a career-best season in the PDRA’s Switzer Dynamics Pro Nitrous class in 2019. He not only...
