The PennGrade1 American Motorcycle Racing Association (AMRA) brought their Harley-Davidson drag racing show to beautiful U.S. 131 Motorsports Park in Martin, Michigan on June 27-28. Qualifying for the Michigan Nitro Nationals showed veteran teams struggling with their combinations, but the cream rose on raceday. Circle M Ranch Top Fuel No…
Top Fuel Drama Leads Rockingham Nitro Harley Story
The annual AMRA Jim McClure Memorial Finals Harley-Davidson drag race is exciting and dramatic enough on its own. But when the Top Fuel points leader had to be airlifted out of Rockingham Dragway after a vicious 222 mile per hour crash, and his teammate met number two in points in the final…
AMRA Nitro Harleys to Rock Rockingham
Even Rockingham Dragway’s famed concrete, hillside bleachers will roll and rumble from the thunder of Nitro Harleys when the annual AMRA Jim McClure Memorial Finals hit the Richland County speed plant on October 24-26. There’s no better two-wheeled, Nitro Harley-Davidson drag race on the planet—the fitting memorial to the late,…
AMRA Nitro Harleys Get One Round in at Bowling Green
The huge crowd of V-Twin culture junkies that descended on Bowling Green, Kentucky’s Beech Bend Raceway got at least one sunny day of action in at the PennGrade1 AMRA D.C. Jones Memorial Fall Nationals—AKA the Harley Drags. After a full day of Harley-Davidson drag racing qualifying on Saturday, Sunday broke…
Small Trailer, Big Win for Kile
Tracy Kile and his Bad Apple Racing team showed up at IHRA’s National Trail Raceway on September 5-6 looking more like the band than a Top Fuel Harley racing team, and left showing who’s boss. Kile towed his bike, tools and spares to Ohio in a small 12-foot trailer after…
AMRA Nitro Harleys Coming to Bowling Green for Annual Drag Racing and Biker Festival
There are two titan events on the Nitro-Harley drag racing calendar, and this weekend’s PennGrade1 AMRA D.C. Jones Memorial Fall Nationals at Bowling Green, Kentucky’s historic Beech Bend Raceway is one of them. Beech Bend’s wooden seats, covered grandstands, and even the rollercoaster will shake, rattle and roll from the…
AMRA Nitro Harleys Settle for Qualifying at Byron
Even a rainout generates a full slate of stories to tell, and that’s what happened when raceday was washed away at the PennGrade1 AMRA Illinois Nitro Nationals race at Byron Dragway on August 8-10. Qualifying for all classes (Nitro Harleys, Gas, and even Vintage Fuel!) ran to completion under a…
Nitro Harley’s Erupt THIS WEEKEND at US 131
Those brutal Nitro Harley-Davidson dragbikes are coming back to disrupt the park-like serenity of Martin, Michigan’s US 131 Motorsports Park on June 27-29. The PennGrade1 AMRA series swings off the highway for the Michigan Nitro Nationals, with riders hanging off of their flame-throwing, ground-pounding beasts the FULL quarter mile. This one’s…
Nitro Harley Lightning Strikes Twice for Peterson and Stewart Racing at National Trail
When the Nitro Harley-Davidson thunder subsided at National Trail Raceway following the PennGrade1 AMRA Ohio Nationals on May 16-18, towering rider Jordan Peterson was celebrating two wins and team owner Chris Stewart was thrilled by an all-Stewart Racing Top Fuel final. “What an incredible and unexpected weekend!” said Stewart. “The…
Nitro Harley’s Thundering into National Trail
National Trail Raceway has been in the news a lot lately, but this weekend it will be for action ON the track. The sights and sounds coming from the classic Hebron, Ohio drag racing venue won’t be from a Midwestern, May thunderstorm. Those flashes of light and thundering sounds will…
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