Vance & Hines announced today that the NHRA’s winningest female, Angelle Sampey, will ride one of the company’s new four-valve Suzuki-powered race bikes—with the WAR Hayabusa body—sponsored by food producer Mission Foods, in the 2021 NHRA Camping World series. Good for Angelle! She won a race for V&H last season…
Reed/Gladstone have V&H V-Twin EBR on Order!
Things move just as quickly behind the scenes as they do on track in the world of NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle (PSM) racing. It was just this past Tuesday that the change in the NHRA rulebook allowing (or requiring) the Harley-Davidson motor to be rebadged as the VH160VT—or Vance &…
Bostick putting Monster 4V Suzuki into Mullaney Chassis
When NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle racer Chris Bostick put his Kosman “Gucci” chassis up for sale (last fall?), it meant one of two things: A) He was going to take the seat on the purple Matt Smith Racing (MSR) EBR he rode a lap on at the SGMP Man Cup…
Man Cup Pro Stock Photos and Highlights
Matt Smith Racing horsepower dominated the first ever Pro Stock race at the FuelTech Man Cup World Finals, just as it pretty well did during the 2020 NHRA season. It’s not always a good thing when a man beats his wife, but Matthew beat Angie in a very close final…
Man Cup World Finals LIVE Friday Qualifying
Watch the FuelTech Man Cup World Finals Friday Qualifying LIVE starting at 4:00 pm Eastern (US) time
Tharpe Thrilled with McClure Win
“What an honor to win the Jim McClure Nationals on the Jay Turner Racing ‘Throwback to the Judge’ while Phillis McClure was in attendance!” Tii Tharpe said after winning the Ray Price Top Fuel Shootout portion of AMRA’s 29thannual Jim McClure All-Harley Nitro World Finals. NC homeboy Tharpe (of Pfafftown) beat MILFord,…
Vance & Hines Racing Parked for 2021?
Eatmyink has received an earth-shattering tip tonight that Vance & Hines has shut down their American Flat Track and NHRA drag racing teams for 2021. As I speculated in the Matt Smith interview posted on Saturday, it appears Harley-Davidson will not be renewing their V&H contracts for next year. I’m…
Matt Smith Talks about his 4th NHRA Championship
story by Tim Hailey with help from NHRA; photos by Marc Gewertz except where noted Even with his three previous NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle championships, Matt Smith’s achievement in the Vance & Hines/Harley-Davidson era stood out to me as the biggest story in all of drag racing. Adding on his…