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After literally getting hot in California earlier this month, NHRA Funny Car champion Tony Pedregon gladly will settle for the figurative side. Healed and rested, Pedregon aims to defend his event title at Firebird International Raceway in Chandler, Ariz., at this weekend’s Checker Schuck’s Kragen NHRA Nationals. Read full story in USA Today
John Force, Jimmie Johnson, Robert E. Petersen, and Chris Pook have been nominated for the ninth annual Justice Brothers-Shav Glick Award that recognizes those who have made distinguished contributions to motorsports in California. The award is named in honor of Glick, who… Read full story at NHRA
The Ford BOSS 500 engine made its competition debut two weeks ago at the NHRA POWERade season-opener at Pomona in Mike Neff’s Old Spice Funny Car Mustang. Crew chief John Medlen says he was very encouraged by what the new engine showed. JOHN MEDLEN – Crew Chief, No. 7701 Old Spice Ford Mustang Funny Car … Read more
It’s been 18 years since two-time Funny Car world champion and multiple national event winner Frank Hawley has driven a nitro Funny Car, but this week he proved that driving a Funny Car is like riding a bike – you don’t forget how. On Wednesday, the legendary drag racing school instructor completed two stellar runs … Read more
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
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