Danny Ongais had made his bones as a dragster driver of renown. Motor Mogul Mickey Thompson wanted him to drive—a new-style lightweight Funny Car. Mickey contracted pipe-fitter supreme Pat Foster to ...

"I thought they only ran Gassers." It's true. In the eyes of the average shuffler, a real tribute to The Stone, Woods, and Cook car must be a Willys Gasser in gold and blue livery. But for a brief ...

From V8 beasts to luxury tourers, these American bikes prove you can have comfort and chaos in the same ride. Trikes are generally designed to be cozy highway riders, but this one goes above and ...

For Funny Cars, I remember the 1980s as the decade of the mega-sponsorships that had begun in the late 1970s along with rapid advances in aerodynamics. These sponsorships included the Big Three car ...

Early in the 1970s, Funny Cars raced every couple of weeks at Orange County International Raceway (OCIR), Irwindale, and Lions Drag Strip. These events ranged from smaller ones featuring mostly local ...

Ronny Young's Blue Max Funny Car is returning to U.S. 131 Motorsports Park in Martin Friday and Saturday. (Photo courtesy of Wilson Motorsports Photography) MARTIN – Ronny Young hasn’t raced down ...

We hate to admit this, but the reason for the "win on Sunday sell on Monday" saying is that race cars usually have nothing in common with their road-going cousins. It's happened everywhere, from the ...

This weekend’s Mopar Mile-High Nationals at Bandimere Speedway fall during the same week that second-year funny car driver Courtney Force landed on the cover of ESPN The Magazine. Force, 25, a ...

Every season is different in the NHRA, especially in Funny Car where there’s been only one back-to-back champion — Ron Capps in 2021 and 2022 — since the legendary John Force won 10 straight between ...

NHRA Funny Car racers John Force and JR Todd are okay following their nasty qualifying collision Saturday during the Lucas Oil Winternationals at Southern California’s In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip ...