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J.R. Todd and his John Stewart-led Torco/Lucas Oil team rebounded from ricocheting off the retaining wall yesterday in the NHRA Top Fuel qualifying at the Pomona Raceway at over 295 mph to manufacture a new car overnight that performed flawlessly in today’s time trials resulting with a time of 4.570 seconds at a speed of … Read more
Hoosier Thunder Motorsports announced today that the Amalie Oil / Torco Nitro Top Fuel dragster, driven by team owner Terry McMillen, will be outfitted with Mahle Clevite bearings and Perfect… Read full story
She’s not satisfied, but it’s a heckuva start. Fortuna native and third-year NHRA Top Fuel veteran Hillary Will did not make the Countdown to the Championships last year, but if you heard her voice, you’d have been hard-pressed to say she wasn’t eager to do better this time around. Well, on Thursday she got a … Read more
As the memories of a magical 2007 racing season fade, Bruce Litton is ready to turn the page. A few short months removed from claiming his first career Top Fuel world championship, Litton and his… Read full story
With the 2008 NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series campaign less than a month away, Army Top Fuel driver Tony ‘The Sarge’ Schumacher is already figuring on another edge-of-your-seat type of season. After securing two straight world championships at the last race and in the final round each time, Schumacher assumes the script will remain the … Read more
Mike Neff, who won his first NHRA Funny Car championship from outside the cockpit, hopes to win his next one from the inside as a member of John Force Racing’s Next Generation of professional drivers. A native of Hemet, Calif., where he grew up racing dirt bikes and off-road trucks, Neff will contest the 2008 … Read more
Officially, Robert “Top Gun” Hight lost the NHRA POWERade Funny Car Championship last year by 19 points, roughly the equivalent of one racing round. Unofficially, he lost it by .001 of a second, the margin by which he fell short of the one per cent backup run that would have certified a season-opening… Read full … Read more
Although he came within an eyelash of winning the 2007 NHRA POWERade world championship, Rod Fuller is not looking back on what could have been but rather to what lies ahead for 2008. To say the rising Top Fuel star is hungry to win would be a severe understatement. The 2007 season was a banner … Read more
As it turns out, the sky is not falling and IHRA racers traveling to Canada by land have another year to get a passport. Those who were concerned about long lines and huge delays due to new,… Read full story
The cackling of engines and the smell of tire smoke, mixed with the aroma of Gee’s Barbeque, will let everyone know the 2008 IHRA racing season has begun at Immokalee Regional Raceway. The… Read full story