After all the recent division and wild speculation in the sport, drag racing WILL reunite at this weekend’s 72nd annual Cornwell Quality Tools NHRA U.S. Nationals at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park. Forty five Top Fuel and Funny Car entries are slated for the world’s biggest drag race, the largest…
Proffit at the Wheel: 2025 Toyota 4Runner hybrid 4-wheel-drive TRD Pro Max
Our most recent experience with one of Toyota’s 4Runner trucks was in 2019, when we drove a 4Runner 4X4 TRD Off-Road Premium to that year’s Indianapolis 500 race. The loan covered the race week and we took advantage, bringing a blow-up mattress, pillow and blanket, sleeping in the hatch (one…
AMRA Harleys Go Big in Byron
When the PennGrade1 American Motorcycle Racing Association (AMRA) Harley-Davidson drag racing series came to Illinois’ Byron Dragway for the first time last year, raceday was a total wash-out. A few sprinkles made for only the slightest of delays this time around on August 8-9, as eliminations ran through the day…
IndyCar at Markham: the Eatmyink Pre-Race Report
Ontario Honda Dealers Indy at Markham Fast Facts: Race weekend: Friday, Aug. 14-Sunday, Aug. 16 Track: Streets of Markham, a 12-turn, 2.19-mile (3.52-kilometer) temporary street course Race distance: Ontario Honda Dealers Indy at Markham: 90 laps/197.1 miles/317.2 kilometers Push-to-pass parameters: 150 seconds of total time with a maximum time of 15 seconds per activation.…
AMRA Harley Drags Lighting Up Byron
The Harley-Davidson drag racers of the PennGrade1 American Motorcycle Racing Association (AMRA) series were just getting to know Northern Illinois’ Byron Dragway last year when persistent rain killed their raceday program. You can be sure they’re looking to bring the thunder and lightning back this time around, but without the…
Portland IndyCar: the Eatmyink Pre-Race
OnlyBulls Grand Prix of Portland Fast Facts Race weekend: Friday, Aug. 7-Sunday, Aug. 9 Track: Portland International Raceway, a 12-turn, 1.964-mile road course in Portland, Oregon Race distance: NTT INDYCAR SERIES: OnlyBulls Grand Prix of Portland 110 laps / 216.04 miles | INDY NXT by Firestone: INDY NXT by Firestone Grand Prix of Portland 35 laps…
Old School Vibe Thrives at Gateway Man Cup Race
Gateway—the Atco of the Midwest. There’s definitely a similar hang-out vibe just in front of and under the Gateway (officially World Wide Technology Raceway in Madison, Illinois, near St. Louis) tower as there was around those old garage doors at Atco Raceway, just outside of Philly. No, the field and…
Milkman Still Delivering with GSX
Winners sometimes start a race weekend deep down a dark hole of destruction, and that was the case for Terry “Milkman” Schweigert. The Canadian dairy farmer was recently riding at the familiar confines of Rockingham Dragway for the XDA Superbike Showdown, expecting a big weekend in the MaxxECU Pro Extreme…
Palou, Pogacar, Herrera: Redefining What Champions Mean
Alex Palou in IndyCar, Tadej Pogacar in UCI Professional Cycling, and NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle racer Gaige Herrera. These racers have recently redefined what it means to dominate their class. All have shown brief signs of vulnerability, but have mostly just calmly, decisively, boringly collected win after win in seemingly…
Richard Gadson on the Call-Out: “It felt like Grudge Racing”
I was glad to hear Richard Gadson say that the feeling on the ground at NHRA’s GETTRX Pro Stock Motorcycle All-Star Call-Out in Sonoma was “like grudge racing.” It wasn’t really coming across that way in the NHRA.tv live feed, and I was afraid that these eight racers had come across…
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