White Alligator Racing (WAR) head honcho Jerry Savoie scored his second U.S. Nationals win in dominant fashion, winning on Labor Day at Lucas Oil Raceway Park in Brownsburg, Indiana. Qualified only 8th, Savoie and tuner Tim Kulungian found their mojo on raceday, running a string of laps between 6.84 and 6.86…
Waiting is the Hardest Part for NHRA Champs Tharpe and Samson
It was déja vu all over again for NHRA Top Fuel Harley (TFH) champion Tii Thape, as he was once again racing down to the wire with last year’s championship rival Doug Vancil at the U.S. Nationals at Lucas Oil Raceway. But two things were different this time around—Tharpe had…
Dalton’s NHDRO 4.60 Win First Ever for a No-Bar Bike
Rain may have interrupted NHDRO’s Liguori Drag Racing World Semifinals at West Salem, Ohio’s Dragway 42, but not before a unique achievement by Jeff Dalton in Pro Ultra 4.60. The world’s quickest motorcycle index class is generally reserved for Pro Mods and Funnybikes—big tire, wheelie bar monsters with nitrous or…
NHDRO Family to Race at Dragway 42
NHDRO brings its racing family back together in the reunion picnic atmosphere at the park-like setting of West Salem, Ohio’s Dragway 42. The Midwest’s largest motorcycle drag racing series will hit the track with the Liguori Drag Racing World Semifinals on August 30-September 1. With two races to go, points…
Sato Superb at Great Gateway
Sweet Mother of Redemption! After being lambasted from all sides (sometimes with vitriolic hate, as happens today in our world of angry, armchair know-it-alls) and lustily defended by his Rahal/Letterman/Lanigan team, Takuma Sato rebounded with a storybook win at World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway. The win came six days…
IndyCar Sparks Sure to Fly at Gateway
After a week of swirling controversy, finger-pointing, and hand-wringing following last weekend’s first lap pile-up at Pocono, drivers away-from-the-fray took the upper hand in qualifying for IndyCar’s Bommarito Automotive Group 500 at World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway. NHDRO will run their World Finals on the Gateway dragstrip in October.…
Sam Wills Assaults the Salt in Bonneville
story and photos by Adam Weege The Bonneville Salt flats are unlike any other place on earth. If you are from the Midwest, like me, you have probably experienced snow, and if you go to the Salt flats you will expect it to be like snow. But what you have…
EDRS Pro Nordic MC coming to Tierp Arena
Two months after the kick off, the EDRS Pro Nordic Motorcycle Championship is back at Tierp Arena for the Summit Racing Equipment Internationals—the fourth round and grand finale of the 2019 championship. The EDRS Pro Nordic Motorcycle Championship started the season with the Tierp and Kauhava rounds, races that were…
Are Two Bumped Teams Better as One?
Former polesitter James Hinchcliffe of the Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports team failed to qualify for the 2018 Indianapolis 500 and qualified second-to-last in 2019. Two time F1 champ Fernando Alonso of Team McLaren failed to qualify in 2019. Now these two teams are joining together to share their experience at…
Wilson in for Scott at Jay Turner Racing
You only have to put two and two together to see that Tyler Wilson (shown here on his Pro Fuel bike) will be taking over for Mike Scott at Jay Turner Racing (JTR) in Brainerd this weekend. Wilson has been testing with JTR on the bike that Scott has been…