1+ hour, 25+ min ago   (1032+ words) Del Worsham put both hands on top of his head. There wasn’t much else to do after Jacob Slater stopped the Compulink timing system at 5.452 seconds and, more noticeably, 291 mph in the second round of Top Alcohol Funny Car eliminations…...

4+ hour, 23+ min ago   (1111+ words) She came to America to drive a Top Fuel dragster, and that remains the plan. The problem is Top Fuel opportunities aren’t exactly growing on trees, particularly when somebody else is paying the bills. So Zetterstrom has gone looking for…...

18+ hour, 26+ min ago   (1134+ words) The reigning NHRA Top Fuel champion was quickest in all four qualifying sessions, won Saturday’s Mission Foods #2Fast2Tasty Challenge, and secured the No. 1 starting position for Sunday’s NHRA Brainerd Nationals. Jordan Vandergriff grabbed the top spot in Funny Car, while Dallas…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (788+ words) When there’s a special prize and a few bonus bucks on the line, it tends to bring out the best in Austin Prock. Friday night, Prock might as well have been Paul Bunyan. Prock closed the opening day of Funny…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1159+ words) Erica Enders wouldn’t describe herself as a Top Fuel driver. But earlier this week, that’s exactly what she drove during a private test session at Indianapolis Raceway Park. And after spending most of the last 25 years looking through a windshield,…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (653+ words) Pacific Raceways President Jason Fiorito has seen the pattern and has vowed that won’t happen with his family-owned suburban Seattle venue. “Not on my watch,” he said adamantly and repeatedly. It features a dragstrip that hosts the NHRA’s Northwest Nationals…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (1260+ words) Nobody pulled the plug on Seattle’s 64 Funny Cars overnight. What ultimately caught up with the “Big One” was a drag racing business that looked considerably different in the late 1980s than it had when Bill Doner dreamed up the deal. Funny…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (522+ words) The Sox & Martin HEMI Challenge will celebrate its 25th anniversary Sept. 4 during the NHRA U.S. Nationals at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park. The specialty event has been part of the U.S. Nationals since 2001, bringing together the limited-production 1968 HEMI Plymouth Barracudas and Dodge Darts…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago   (1545+ words) Getting 64 Funny Cars to Seattle was Bill Doner’s first challenge. Once he had them there, the Hall of Fame drag racing promoter had to figure out what to do with all of them. The answer became one of the wildest…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1590+ words) Bill Doner, the legendary Hall of Fame drag racing promoter, had a simple philosophy. If a lot was good, then more was better. And Doner, the former sportswriter who became one of drag racing’s most successful promoters, staged some doozies…...