Twelve months ago it was very cold and wet with a slick Santa Pod Raceway on Easter weekend, which restricted the Festival of Power to no quicker than 8.5 seconds. This year the temperature was in the 70s for all three days of Round 1 of the ACU championship. Records…
PDRA LIVE from SGMP in Valdosta
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Two Straight NHRA Wins for Tharpe and Samson
Two NHRA Top Fuel Harley wins in eight days is a damn good result for defending champion rider Tii Tharpe, associate sponsor Samson Exhaust, and the Jay Turner Racing team. Maybe an even more impressive result is that Tharpe’s win this past weekend at NHRA’s Thunder Valley Nationals was his…
Key Match-Ups Today at Bristol
No matter what happens in round 1 of Top Fuel Harley today at the NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals at Bristol Dragway, there will be major championship implications. Last year’s championship came down to the final 660 feet at Indy, when Doug Vancil dropped a cylinder and Tii Tharpe thundered to the…
One Lap Good Enough So Far for The Bulldog
Jay Turner’s smooth, steady 6.319 at 212.76 mph in round 1 held up as Friday’s Top Fuel Harley provisional #1 qualifier at the NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals at Bristol Dragway. Cooler conditions for the evening session saw many improve their times, but none could surpass Jay’s time. Jay himself was unable…
Hines’ 50th, Harley’s 100th: Full Rundown from Atlanta
Five-time Pro Stock Motorcycle world champion Andrew Hines earned his second straight victory, third overall of 2019, and 51st in his career after going 6.865 at 195.05 on his Screamin’ Eagle Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson to defeat Jerry Savoie in the final round at the 39th annual Arby’s NHRA Southern…
“New” AMRA Starts Strong at Beech Bend
The venerable American Motorcycle Racing Association (AMRA) changed ownership over the winter, landing in the hands of four racers known as “The Pennsylvania Posse.” The new group had the first opportunity to show their skills to the biggest opening field in many years at their Spring Rally & Drags season…
Hines Wins 50th in all-V-Twin Final Quad
Andrew Hines is the first Pro Stock Motorcycle rider in NHRA history to win 50 races, hitting the milestone at the 10th annual NGK Spark Plugs NHRA Four-Wide Nationals this past weekend at zMAX Dragway in Concord, North Carolina. Hines won with a run of 6.831 at 198.17 on his…
Stoffer is Provisional #1 at 4-Wide
Karen Stoffer ran a 6.864 at 195.17 to take the provisional top Pro Stock Motorcycle qualifying spot on her Stoffer Enterprises/White Alligator Racing Suzuki at the 10th annual NGK Spark Plugs NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMAX Dragway. She is in search of her first No. 1 qualifier since Atlanta in…
Stevie “Fast” wants to Exorcise Crash
Considering he has two final rounds appearances, a world record, one victory and the points lead, it couldn’t be a much better start to the 2019 E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series presented by J&A Service season for Stevie “Fast” Jackson. But heading to zMAX Dragway as…