By any standard, third generation motorcycle drag racer Brayden Davis gave a stunning performance last year—his first on the big stage of NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle competition. Veteran racer Flyin’ Ryan Oehler thinks his team has found the performance to keep Davis’s results right where Brayden— his new teammate—is used…
AMRA Gas Harleys Thunder to Wins and Championships at The Rock
The annual AMRA Jim McClure Memorial Finals is the biggest Harley-Davidson drag racing event on the planet, and gas-fueled classes form the bulk of competition. High performance American V-Twin power filled the Rockingham Dragway lanes and thrilled the fans of Harley culture that packed the legendary venue’s stands. Zipper’s Performance…
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…
AMRA US 131 Gas Harley and Bagger Heroes
First off, let’s acknowledge the all-time gas class, Harley-Davidson drag racing hero. That would be the umpteen-time champ Donnie Huffman, who succumbed to a brutal pancreatic cancer battle shortly after the June 27-29 PennGrade1 AMRA Michigan Nitro Nationals at US 131 Motorsports Park in Martin, Michigan. Donnie was the man…
Nitro Harleys Bringing the Noise to Byron!
The plains of northern Illinois will rumble and shake with the thunder and lightning of Nitro Harleys as the PennGrade1 AMRA Illinois Nitro Nationals take on Byron Dragway on August 8-10. Finland’s Samu Kemppainen won Circle M Ranch Top Fuel the last time out in Martin, Michigan. The Chris Stewart…
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