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PINKS ALL OUT EVENT INFORMATION for APRIL 18-19, 2008 The information you’ve been waiting for all year is finally here! The SPEED’s PINKs All Out show will be taping at Gainesville Raceway on April 18-19, 2008. This event is grass-roots drag racing at its best! Who wouldn’t want to […] Read full story
NHRA POWERade Drag Racing stars Gary Scelzi, Rod Fuller, Matt Guidera and Cory McClenathan will battle for supremacy on Infineon Raceway’s lightning-quick kart track on Saturday, March 8, and 50 lucky race fans are invited to join them. Infineon Raceway will host the 6th annual NHRA Tour de Charity on its 16-turn, three-quarter mile kart … Read more
What a strange, star-crossed year 2007 was for the National Hot Rod Association. It saw the institution of the NHRA’s touted, complex countdown formula that pared the championship field to the final race. It also saw the complex sale of the NHRA’s pro-racing assets to a group called HD Partners, which, if it hadn’t recently … Read more
With the first race of the 2008 NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series in the books, NHRA.com has relaunched its Countdown to the Championship Web site. Throughout the season, the site will feature updated points and standings, post-event wrap-ups, a dedicated newsletter, and Countdown-related news and feature stories… Click here to visit the NHRA 2008 Countdon … Read more
Herb McCandless and Sonny Shipmon reached speeds and heights so rarified in drag racing that their distinguished accomplishments are set to become stamped into immortalization today. The Burlington legends are among the five members who comprise the second class of inductees for the North Carolina Drag Racing Hall of Fame. “For people to recognize the … Read more
Fourteen-time Funny Car champion John Force didn’t lose his flair for the dramatic or his passion for NHRA POWERade drag racing in last September’s dramatic accident that sidelined him for four months. He thrilled the faithful at the season-opening CARQUEST Auto Parts NHRA Winternationals by waiting until the last qualifying session to make the field … Read more
Perennial drag racing king John Force, open-wheel racing champion Michael Andretti, and NASCAR legend Buddy Baker will lead a class of seven racing greats into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America when the organization stages its annual induction ceremony Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008, at the Fillmore Detroit. These three, along with sports-car ace Richie … Read more
John Force proved you don’t have to slow down to be safe in the NHRA. Driving a revolutionary Funny Car designed to help bring the class into the 21st century, Robert Hight defeated Cruz Pedregon by 7 feet in the Funny Car final to give John Force Racing its 18th victory at Auto Club Raceway. … Read more