On one of my rare weekends off from the race track last year, I stopped in on the Kentucky Kickdown festival at American Turners in Louisville. With bikes, music, food, burnouts, stunts, and mud drags, it was a cool scene. I took a bunch of pics, but got busy with…
Full Story Behind WAR’s Second Straight Indy Win
White Alligator Racing (WAR) head honcho Jerry Savoie scored his second U.S. Nationals win in dominant fashion, winning on Labor Day at Lucas Oil Raceway Park in Brownsburg, Indiana. Qualified only 8th, Savoie and tuner Tim Kulungian found their mojo on raceday, running a string of laps between 6.84 and 6.86…
Waiting is the Hardest Part for NHRA Champs Tharpe and Samson
It was déja vu all over again for NHRA Top Fuel Harley (TFH) champion Tii Thape, as he was once again racing down to the wire with last year’s championship rival Doug Vancil at the U.S. Nationals at Lucas Oil Raceway. But two things were different this time around—Tharpe had…
Dalton’s NHDRO 4.60 Win First Ever for a No-Bar Bike
Rain may have interrupted NHDRO’s Liguori Drag Racing World Semifinals at West Salem, Ohio’s Dragway 42, but not before a unique achievement by Jeff Dalton in Pro Ultra 4.60. The world’s quickest motorcycle index class is generally reserved for Pro Mods and Funnybikes—big tire, wheelie bar monsters with nitrous or…
Anibal, Devin Deliver 7.50s Real Street Pain
Devin Ragland, known as “Devin Doe” on Facebook and seen on his Real Street bike above, is never shy with his words or predictions. After getting his first DME Real Street win last weekend at the Xtreme Dragbike Association (XDA)’s Inaugural Bike Bash at Virginia Motorsports Park, Ragland already sounds…
NHDRO Family to Race at Dragway 42
NHDRO brings its racing family back together in the reunion picnic atmosphere at the park-like setting of West Salem, Ohio’s Dragway 42. The Midwest’s largest motorcycle drag racing series will hit the track with the Liguori Drag Racing World Semifinals on August 30-September 1. With two races to go, points…
Sato Superb at Great Gateway
Sweet Mother of Redemption! After being lambasted from all sides (sometimes with vitriolic hate, as happens today in our world of angry, armchair know-it-alls) and lustily defended by his Rahal/Letterman/Lanigan team, Takuma Sato rebounded with a storybook win at World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway. The win came six days…
IndyCar Sparks Sure to Fly at Gateway
After a week of swirling controversy, finger-pointing, and hand-wringing following last weekend’s first lap pile-up at Pocono, drivers away-from-the-fray took the upper hand in qualifying for IndyCar’s Bommarito Automotive Group 500 at World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway. NHDRO will run their World Finals on the Gateway dragstrip in October.…
Sam Wills Assaults the Salt in Bonneville
story and photos by Adam Weege The Bonneville Salt flats are unlike any other place on earth. If you are from the Midwest, like me, you have probably experienced snow, and if you go to the Salt flats you will expect it to be like snow. But what you have…
EDRS Pro Nordic MC coming to Tierp Arena
Two months after the kick off, the EDRS Pro Nordic Motorcycle Championship is back at Tierp Arena for the Summit Racing Equipment Internationals—the fourth round and grand finale of the 2019 championship. The EDRS Pro Nordic Motorcycle Championship started the season with the Tierp and Kauhava rounds, races that were…