Hillary Will is world’s fastest woman

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

NHRA to kick off ‘Countdown’ at new drag strip

The inaugural event at a new drag strip at Lowes Motor Speedway will also be the first in the National Hot Rod Association PowerAde Series’ revised Countdown to the Championship. Details on the Sept. 11-14 event at the facility being built near Charlotte – still listed as “to be announced” on the NHRA schedule – … Read more

More News (Daily Bulletin)

POMONA – Nothing like adding a little drama to the final day of qualifying for the Auto Club Finals. Rod Fuller, the driver atop the Top Fuel dragster points standings in the NHRA Powerade Drag Racing Series Countdown to One, is not yet in the 16-car field for Sunday’s finals. Read full story

Skepticism gives way to acceptance for title format (USA Today)

The NHRA season wraps up its season and its inaugural Countdown to the Championship at this weekend at the Automobile Club of Southern California Finals at Pomona, Calif. Three of the four titles are wide open; each is a four-driver race. Only Funny Car’s Tony Pedregon has a comfortable lead on a championship. Read full … Read more

Kalitta, Troxel blow through Top Fuel field to clinch berths (Richmond Times-Dispatch)

DINWIDDIE — Countdown? What Countdown? That, in essence, was the message sent yesterday at the Torco Racing Fuels NHRA Nationals by a pair of drivers outside striking distance from the NHRA’s version of a playoff — the Countdown to 1. Doug Kalitta, who arrived in Richmond 13th in points, and Melanie Troxel (ninth), blew through … Read more