Personal Bests: 2017 NHRA Joliet & Western Swing

Steve Klemetti provides new drivers and personal best elapsed times and speeds from NHRA Joliet and the Western Swing races in 2017. ETs and speeds are sorted by the amount of improvement within the class. New Drivers Class Driver Best ET Speed Year Track PRO Steve Graham 6.623 208.94 2017 … [Read more...]

THEN & NOW, A Review by Phil R. Elliott

Drag Racing’s Quarter-Mile Warriors Then & Now By Doug Boyce Published by CarTech and available through www.cartechbooks.com <http://www.cartechbooks.com> and other CarTech outlets Drag Racing’s Quarter-Mile Warriors Then & Now is the type of book that will bring hours of … [Read more...]

Personal Bests: 2017 NHRA Englishtown, Bristol, Norwalk

Steve Klemetti provides the new drivers, and new personal best elapsed times and speeds from the 2017 NHRA national events at Englishtown, Bristol, and Norwalk. New Drivers Class Driver Best ET Speed Year Track PMD Carl Stevens Jr 5.813 257.97 2017 ENGLISHTOWN PMD Dean Marinis 6.001 235.31 … [Read more...]

Personal Bests: 2017 NHRA Atlanta, Topeka, Epping

Steve Klemetti serves up the new drivers, new personal best elapsed times, and new personal best speeds from the 2017 NHRA national events in Atlanta, Topeka, and Epping. He notes: "The fastest the funny cars went in the quarter mile was 334; now they are going 338 in 1000 feet. Top fuel went 337 in … [Read more...]

Personal Bests: 2017 NHRA Las Vegas and Houston Spring and Charlotte 4-Wides

Steve Klemetti provides new drivers and new personal best elapsed times and speeds from the 2017 NHRA national events at Las Vegas, Houston Spring, and Charlotte 4-Wides. New Drivers Class Driver Best ET Speed Year Track PMD Larry Morgan 5.853 249.72 2017 4WIDE PMD Larry Morgan 5.861 249.44 … [Read more...]

Personal Bests: 2017 NHRA Winters, Phoenix, Gatornationals

Steve Klemetti provides new drivers and new personal best elapsed times and speeds from the first three NHRA national events of 2017. New Drivers Class Driver Best ET Speed Year Track AAFK J.R. Todd 3.871 332.51 2017 GAINESVI AAFK J.R. Todd 3.887 330.07 2017 PHOENIX AAFK J.R. Todd 3.902 … [Read more...]

Arias, Moore, Chapouris, Van Dyke, Gas-Up and Santa Ana Drags Reunion

Update for those on my old Car Racers Newsletter: April 1, 2017 - Santa Ana Drags Reunion, 10 am to 2 pm, Santiago Creek Park located at Lawson Way and East Memory Lane, Santa Ana, California. No charge to attend, light lunch provided by Gene Mitchell. Group photograph at 1 pm. April 29, 2017 … [Read more...]

Personal Bests: 2016 NHRA Maple Grove through Pomona Finals

Steve Klemetti serves up the last set of new drivers, new personal best elapsed times, and new personal best speeds from the final 2016 NHRA national events. New Entries Class Driver Best ET Speed Year Track AAFK Anthony Begley 4.145 286.50 2016 POMONA 2 AAFK Anthony Begley 5.183 164.35 2016 … [Read more...]

Personal Bests: 2016 Brainerd, Indy, Charlotte, Madison

Steve Klemetti records the new drivers, and new personal best elapsed times and speeds from the 2016 NHRA events at Brainerd, Indy, Charlotte, and East St. Louis. New Drivers Class Driver Best ET Speed Year Track PMD Michael Bowman 5.821 256.89 2016 INDY PMD Justin Shearer 6.361 226.47 2016 … [Read more...]

Book Review: The Chrisman Legacy… Always Faster

The Chrisman Legacy… Always Faster by Tom Madigan A book review by Phil R. Elliott Like many of you, I’ll miss Art Chrisman. About the time I discovered drag racing, Art Chrisman won the 1st Fuel & Gas Championships at Bakersfield. I was reading copies of my older cousin Chuck’s Hot Rod … [Read more...]