Living up to his self-proclaimed nickname of “super part-timer,” Lincolnshire, Ill., NHRA Top Fuel racer T.J. Zizzo swept qualifying sessions at his home-state races, in May at Joliet (near Chicago) and in September at Madison (downstate near St. Louis)
One of the more intense rivalries in NHRA Pro Stock class history pitted General Motors envoy Warren Johnson, “The Professor of Pro Stock,” and his former hire, Scott Geoffrion, one of “The Dodge Boys,” back in the 1980s.
We don’t know if John Force is going to return to the cockpit of the PEAK Chevrolet Camaro Funny Car following his violent June 23 crash at Virginia Motorsports Park.
It was the first time anyone outside John Force’s inner circle had heard from him since June 23 when the 16-time NHRA Funny Car champion suffered a traumatic brain injury in a high-speed crash at Virginia Motorsports Park.
The nearly 75 years of drag-racing folklore includes countless tales laced with bluster, bravado and bawdiness. And because they’ve been repeated through the years, it’s difficult to say if half of it — maybe any of it — is true
The nearly 75 years of drag-racing folklore includes countless tales laced with bluster, bravado and bawdiness. And because they’ve been repeated through the years, it’s difficult to say if half of it — maybe any of it — is true.
Already this season, NHRA drivers have dispensed home remedies, recipes for success, fatherly and grandfatherly advice and insight into the difference between racing a Top Fuel dragster and a Funny Car
