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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
AMRA Harley Drags Thunder at Beautiful U.S. 131
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 Motorcycles are Back in Action!
This report presented by Pingel Enterprise The insane, 1600+ horsepower Top Fuel Motorcycles (TFM) are back on track this weekend—June 19-20—at IHRA’s Triple Crown race at Darana National Trail Raceway, Hebron, Ohio. With eight supercharged, nitromethane-burning bikes, it will be the biggest field in many, many years for these mythical…
Bristol Qualifying, 2fast2tasty Wrap-Up
NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle settled into kind of a normal groove after some high drama of the last two events. Joliet’s Matt Smith vs. Angie Smith final followed up by Matt’s hospitalization to remove his gall bladder (about a pound and a half) during the inaugural Maryland race left everyone…
Blow-by-Blow from NHRA’s Route 66 race
The winds blowing in from the Windy City across Route 66 Raceway in Joliet punched hard at the Pro Stock Motorcycles, but the competitors punched just as hard at each other. Round after round, no one punched harder at the 26th annual Gerber Collision & Glass Route 66 NHRA Nationals…
Angie on Top at Route 66
Pro Stock Motorcycle’s Angie Smith set the pace in qualifying, making the quickest run in both sessions on Friday at the 26th annual Gerber Collision & Glass Route 66 NHRA Nationals presented by PEAK, including a 6.738 at 200.17 in the opening session on her Denso Auto Parts Buell. With…
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