NHRA NEWS: GET SCREENED AMERICA PRO MOD SERIES PREVIEW – ST. LOUIS

HOUSTON PRO MOD WINNER ROWE READY FOR MORE NHRA SUCCESS AT GATEWAY INTERNATIONAL RACEWAYMADISON, Ill. – Danny Rowe made a fast turnaround to his race program following an uncharacteristic DNQ at the season-opening NHRA Get Screened America Pro Mod Drag Racing Series event at Florida’s Gainesville … [Read more...]

Tommy Gray’s Camaro Pro Mod

Tommy Gray races in the NEOPMA in 2010  … [Read more...]

GEICO Powersports Top Fuel team revamps tune-up in attempt to go faster

ST. LOUIS (April 27) -- The high-pitched whirring of a clutch machine and roof-rattling rumble of an engine dyno at it's nitro-gulping extreme have become commonplace at Morgan Lucas Racing's headquarters in Brownsburg, Ind."I just wear earplugs all the time now," Lucas Oil crew chief John … [Read more...]

Tasca and Motorcraft/Quick Lane Racing Use Off Week to Prepare for St. Louis Success

DEARBORN, MI – April 27, 2010 – Bob Tasca III and the Motorcraft/Quick Lane Racing team are looking to show the competition that they are the BOSS – this week with the BOSS 500 powered all-Ford Shelby Mustang. Tasca looks to improve on his first-round loss slump and bring home the team’s first … [Read more...]

McMillen hopes Gateway provides breakout

McMillen hopes Gateway provides breakout MADISON, Ill. (April 26, 2010) -- It has been a busy week around the Amalie Oil Top Fuel dragster race shop. Terry McMillen, owner and driver of the NHRA Full Throttle Top Fuel team hopes this week is even busier as the team rolls into the … [Read more...]

NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, O’Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis

LUCAS OIL DRAG RACING SERIES EVENT RESCHEDULEDINDIANAPOLIS (April 26, 2010) - Mother nature finally got the best of the NHRA Lucas Oil Spring Spectacle of Speed at O’Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis with the event being postponed Sunday after persistent showers cancelled any hope of eliminations. … [Read more...]

IHRA Sportsman Champions To Be Decided This Weekend

Field is set, stage is ready – bring on the Tournament of ChampionsROCKINGHAM, N.C. (April 26, 2010) – After a grueling wait and months spent staring at the April 30 date the drivers making up the 2009 Tournament of Champions have less than a week left before returning to Rockingham Dragway where … [Read more...]

NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, Final Results from S.R.C.A. Dragstrip, Great Bend, Kan.

WHITELEY AND WILLIAMS TAKE THE WALLY AT SEASON OPENERGREAT BEND, Kan. (April 26, 2010) – In the final results from SRCA Dragstrip and the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, Jim Whiteley, Grand Junction, Colo., and Kirk Williams, Glenwood, Iowa, took home the wins in Top Alcohol Dragster and Top … [Read more...]

Starting line assassin: Langdon a perfect 16-0 on season

St. LOUIS (April 26) -- Once the hours of work are finished and a Top Fuel dragster pulls to the starting line for a race, the focal point becomes the driver, who pilots the 8,000-horsepower machine through a 3.8-second pass. A key task is leaving the starting line ahead of the opposing driver, … [Read more...]

Rockingham Success Paves Way For Future Champions

Four former champs relive Rockingham historyROCKINGHAM, N.C. (April 26, 2010) – Perhaps no track in the history of the International Hot Rod Association holds more history than Rockingham Dragway.Rockingham Dragway was the site of the very first national event held by the sanctioning body in 1971 … [Read more...]