Dunn teams with Hubert’s Lemonade for Norwalk, Chicago
Traditionally, when Jim Dunn Racing rolls out a yellow Funny Car, it’s promoting the popular Mooneyes brand. At the upcoming NHRA Mello Yello national events in Norwalk and Chicago, Jim Dunn will be bringing out a yellow Funny Car with a…
Mountain Magic
Quick, who is the hottest driver in the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series so far in 2016? If you answered with anyone other than Division 2 racer Steven Furr, you’d be wrong. Between Top Dragster and Super Gas, Furr has already appeared in…
Crampton worked out before he burned out in Bristol
Lucas Oil Top Fuel driver Crampton had a busy week prior to the NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals, making several media stops and participating in a workout with a local fire department and in a shooting competition for charity. His first stop…
Mello Yello Series wraps up busy June in Ohio
The NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series heads to Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park June 23-26 for the 10th annual Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals. The awesome nitro-burning machines that crank out 10,000 horsepower will thunder down…
A storm is a-brewin'
It’s not how you start. It’s how you finish. The NHRA Countdown to the Championship format makes those proverbial words ring even louder in the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series. In the case of the Top Fuel and Funny Car…
FOX Sports Australia to televise NHRA Mello Yello Series events
NHRA, through its partnership with Greenlight International Limited, has reached an agreement for FOX Sports Australia Pty Limited to televise programming of NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series events. FOX Sports Australia will televise one-hour…
First two rounds of Norwalk eliminations to be shown live
NHRA FOX coverage from the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals will include thrilling live action from the first two rounds of Sunday’s final eliminations from the 12th event of the 2016 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series from Summit…
Top 20 Funny Cars: Introducing No. 14
As part of NHRA’s 50 years of Funny Car celebration, fans voted on a Top 20 list developed by respected drag racing historians and Funny Car experts. The results are being revealed in reverse order at NHRA national events this season and…
Best of Bristol
After two weeks in the Northeast, the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series headed south to Bristol Dragway for Father’s Day weekend, and the 2016 edition of the NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals did not disappoint. From a pair of drivers who got…
A Kean memory
Response to last week’s column full o’ photos was deliciously marvelous, with lots of my pals here digging my amateurish attempts because, after all, even a bad photo of a great Funny Car is worth seeing, right? As I’ve said…
Former Pro Mod champ Smith thrilled to return to NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals
Former NHRA J&A Service Pro Mod Drag Racing Series national champion Von Smith is simply happy to be racing again. After not racing in 2015, Smith is back behind the wheel of the Al-Anabi Racing Chevrolet Camaro this year and will compete at…
Coughlin reflects on special date for NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals
The date will certainly be on Jeg Coughlin Jr.’s mind at this weekend’s 16th annual NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals at Bristol Dragway. Final eliminations on Sunday at the picturesque track…
Tricky Tipster's Bristol picks
For more than five decades, NHRA National Dragster's famed Tricky Tipster has tested his prognosticating skills prior to each national event, putting odds on the top eight racers he thinks have the best shot at victory in Tricky Tipster.…
Holley Hot Rod Reunion races to conclusion
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Thrilling racing action headlined the final day of the NHRA Holley Hot Rod Reunion presented by AAA Insurance at Beech Bend Raceway with eliminations taking place in all the categories. In the signature event, the…
Event preview: NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals
After two weeks in the Northeast, the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series heads south for the third of four straight weekends of racing in June, hitting Bristol Dragway for the 16th annual NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals. Tucked in the Tennessee…
1999 Winston Showdown
This weekend, the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series makes its way to Bristol for the 16th annual NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals. For this week’s edition of Throwback Thursday, we look back to NHRA's return to Bristol Dragway for the first…
Crew Member Spotlight: Matt Bynum
Matt Bynum is the bottom-end technician for the DHL Toyota Camry Funny Car driven by 2015 NHRA Mello Yello world champion Del Worsham. Bynum builds all of the short blocks for the team and removes the oil pan to service the entire rotating assembly…
Dan is the man
Dan Northrop won the Super Gas national championship in 2000, and his most recent national event victory had come just a year ago in Englishtown, so it wasn’t the least bit surprising to see him headed into Sunday’s final eliminations…
Former Funny Car world champion Hight excited about possibilities heading to Bristol
Robert Hight might not have gotten the results he wanted out of his new 10,000-horsepower Auto Club Chevrolet Camaro SS Funny Car last weekend in Englishtown, but the former world champion remains upbeat when he considers the possibilities. Hight…
Force eager for more victories starting at NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals
Brittany Force took a major step in her budding Top Fuel career by registering her first two victories during the 2016 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season. Force, though, is hardly satisfied and has a…
Pritchett gets New Yorkers’ take on driving 330 mph
Would you like to go 330 mph? That was one of the questions Top Fuel driver Leah Pritchett posed to New Yorkers ahead of last week’s NHRA Summernationals at nearby Old Bridge Township Raceway Park.…
Mello Yello Series heads to Bristol Dragway for thrilling Father’s Day action
The NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series heads back to one of the most picturesque dragstrips on the 24-race circuit to host the 16th annual NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals, June 17-19, at Bristol Dragway. The race is the 11th event of the 2016 season…
Super Summernationals
Historic Old Bridge Township Raceway Park hosted the NHRA Summernationals, an event that lived up to its name when racers took on a warm racing surface Sunday. Steve Torrence (Top Fuel), Ron Capps (Funny Car), Greg Anderson (Pro Stock), and…
Three-peat!
At the end of my last blog, I said that I was hoping to have some happy news after our next races, and I’m excited to report back with some great news from Team Kalitta! It’s been an eventful month or so since I last wrote, so let’…
Protect The Harvest named title sponsor of Seattle event
Protect The Harvest, a group founded in 2011 to assist in the fight for the rights of America’s farmers, ranchers, animal owners, and sportsmen/sportswomen, has signed an agreement to become the title-rights sponsor of the upcoming NHRA Mello…
Barton goes back to back in Factory Stock rout
David Barton’s victory at the season-opening SAM Tech Factory Stock Showdown event in Gainesville was impressive, but his second win in Englishtown was nothing less than a good old fashioned drubbing. Barton, driving Gary Wolkwitz’s supercharged…