Clearly, no National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Pro Stock Motorcycle (PSM) team spent the COVID19 delay better than “Flyin’ Ryan” Oehler and his small, independent team. His B&K Cylinder Heads EBR hit the ground at Lucas Oil Raceway near Indianapolis for the unique E3 Spark Plug NHRA Nationals ready to…
NHRA is hemorrhaging star power. Corporate belt tightening and reduced purses (by 35% for fuel and 50% for gas classes) at limited-spectator events is part of the story, but you might remember that some teams were skipping the early season races long before the COVID19 crisis set in. The big…
You heard it first here on Eatmyink over a week ago: NHRA Drag Racing will resume in mid-July, relaunching its Mello Yello Drag Racing Series and associated programs with events on back-to-back weekends at Lucas Oil Raceway near Indianapolis. The two events will be run on consecutive weeks—July 11-12 with Pro…
Eatmyink has learned that NHRA is checking wth competitors about possibly racing at Lucas Oil Raceway in Brownsburg, Indiana, on the weekends of July 11-12 (with Pro Stock Motorcycle) and 18-19 (without PSM). I have no information yet about Top Fuel Harley. The events—IF they happen—would be made for TV,…
The 2019 NSRA Hot Rod Drags at Santa Pod Raceway were blessed with warm, sunny weather over the entire weekend. This was the final round of the Outlaw Anglia and Gasser Circus. Outlaw Anglia Twenty-Five cars entered the final round of the 2019 Outlaw Anglia Championship. Scotty Crookston was the…
The final round of the 2019 European FIM Championships at Santa Pod Raceway will always be remembered for the stunning string of records laid down by Top Fuel Bike champion Filippos Papafilippou and the Gulf Oil Racing Puma (above). The event was disrupted on Friday by rain during qualifying between…
Slaps were thrown, engines were blown, emotions and nerves were pushed to the absolute limit. And although I’m sure Bret Kepner will school me otherwise, you’d be hard pressed to find a crazier day in the history of any class at the Finals than we saw yesterday in Pro Stock…
The STP Green Light Nationals at Santa Pod Raceway were a double header for the bike classes. Round 4 was on Saturday with qualifying in the morning and eliminations in the afternoon. Same format for round 5 on Sunday, which will be covered in a separate article here on Eatmyink.…
Shawn Langdon, a former Top Fuel world champ, became just the second driver in NHRA history to win in both nitro classes at St. Louis, going 4.068-seconds at 310.41 mph in his Global Electronic Technology Toyota Camry to beat teammate J.R. Todd, the defending world champ, in an all-Kalitta Motorsports…
Defending NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle champ (and Gateway winner) Matt Smith is known for putting on quite a show. I’m told his repertoire at Maple Grove consisted of a display of raw emotion when confronted with race-winning Suzuki performance. But in qualifying at World Wide Technology Raceway, Smith confined his…