Las Vegas is a city known more for its sins than confessions, but Steve Torrence had something he wanted to say there publicly last November, immediately after winning his third straight NHRA Top Fuel championship. “I fall short a lot and everybody sees it. I get it. It ain’t something…
SNOHOMISH, Wash. — A week before Helio Castroneves won his fourth Indianapolis 500 and began drawing a bead on an unprecedented fifth, equally versatile veteran racer Willy T. Ribbs had a message for him. “His name is no longer Helio Castroneves. It’s Fidel — Fidel Castroneves,” Ribbs told a handful…
SNOHOMISH, Wash. — Jason Fiorito, president of Seattle’s Pacific Raceways, has raced stock cars for years and he assumed his son would want to follow in his footsteps. But the teenager prefers Miatas and BMWs and sports car racing in the Northwest’s Pro 3 Series. The surprised dad said, “I’m…
SNOHOMISH, Wash. — Jason Fiorito knew it didn’t make sense — at least not financially. But keeping Pacific Raceways, the Northwest’s premier multi-use motorsports facility, open this year seemed right morally. “If we were making a strictly business decision, we would send everybody home and close the gates. The events…
CONCORD, N.C. — It isn’t only mothers who have eyes in the back of their heads. Three-time NHRA Top Fuel champion Antron Brown said any drag racer launching from the starting line in a four-wide event needs them. For the record, Funny Car’s Alexis DeJoria is the only pro racer…
Who would have known the National Hot Rod Ass’n — maybe the entire sport of drag racing — would receive its most reassuring message from the reservation belonging to the Barona Group of Capitan Grande Band of Mission Indians?
Susan Wade SNOHOMISH, Wash. — Sleep is something we all know we need in proper doses but that relatively few are disciplined enough to demand for ourselves. Dr. Meeta Singh has a few truths that should have dedicated drivers in every form of motorsports snuggling in bed for nine to…
There is an enclave in College Station, Texas, known as “Aggieland.” It’s Texas A&M University, where students are committed to upholding the school’s unique and plentiful traditions.
Wally Parks used the Boy Scouts of America Handbook as a guideline 70 years ago when he founded the National Hot Rod Ass’n to keep the streets of Southern California — and those with the racing itch in the post-war car culture — safe.
