Gaige Herrera ended qualifying on another massive note in Pro Stock Motorcycle on Saturday at Maple Grove Raceway, powering to the No. 1 position in front of a sellout crowd at the 38th annual Pep Boys NHRA Nationals, the first race in the NHRA Countdown to the Championship playoffs. It…
Sharp Smith Takes Advantage of Opponent Failures
We’re a long way from deciding the NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle championship, and Gaige Herrera is clearly the runaway dominator so far this year. But wily 6X champ and defending U.S. Nationals winner Matt Smith showed why you can never count him out. As his primary challengers fell by the…
Antron Brown Talks About Getting Today’s Youth into Drag Racing
Antron Brown is arguably the most magnetic drag racing personality since John Force. As he followed the Ron Capps/Don Prudhomme press conference on Monday at the 69th annual NHRA U.S. Nationals at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park, I wondered how he could tap his charisma to bring youth into the…
Capps and Snake talk about the Coolest Tribute Car ever
Something this cool doesn’t just happen everyday in today’s bland, corporate America. Fifty years after Don ‘The Snake’ Prudhomme won the 1973 NHRA U.S. Nationals in Funny Car, reigning event champion Ron Capps put the iconic ‘Snake’ Hot Wheels livery back in the Indy winner’s circle. The throwback look and…
Hoosier Herrera Miles Ahead at Indy
Like Jeff Gordon and Kyle Larson, Gaige Herrera moved from California to Indiana to further his racing career. In Herrera’s case, NHDRO Pro Street was still a thing at the time and his nitrous Suzuki Hayabusa was a series regular. The Pro Street center of the universe moved East, and…
NitrOlympX Winner Ida Zetterström Hanging at the US Nats
Fresh off a win at the NitrOlympX and a steady grip on the FIA Top Fuel championship, former Super Street Bike racer Ida Zetterström will celebrate by hanging this weekend at the NHRA U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis. “I am excited to get to the U.S. Nationals but even more excited…
Transfluid on Board with the Trick-Tools Suzuki
Transfluid, a leading global manufacturer of tube processing and tube bending machines, is pleased to partner with Trick-Tools, White Alligator Racing (WAR) and rider Chase Van Sant to compete in NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle in 2023. “We are excited about the opportunity to support Trick-Tools and the WAR team and…
Gary Stoffer Talks 2Vs, Light Weight, and Racing This Weekend
I had a great online discussion this week with Gary Stoffer, regarding his wife Karen’s Pro Stock Motorcycle entry this weekend at Seattle on their own Stoffer/Underdahl Suzuki. Remember that this is the 2 valve motored, TL1000 bodied bike that Gaige Herrara started his NHRA career on at several races…
Did the Herrera/V&H Combination Peak Too Soon?
Did they peak too soon? The chink in the Gaige Herrera/Vance & Hines armor widened at the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals at Summit Motorsports Park—AKA Norwalk. At the previous NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle race at Bristol Dragway, the generally unflappable Herrera made an unforced error when he redlit by…
Is Gaige Herrera the Rick Mears of Pro Stock Motorcycle?
It’s May, and it’s the 50th anniversary of my first Indianapolis 500, so excuse me for looking at the world through Wing & Wheel shaped glasses. As I was driving back to Indy from last weekend’s NHRA event at Route 66 Raceway in Joliet, Illinois, it occurred to me that…
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