KTM Motorsports is pleased to announce that 18-time AFT Singles winner Shayna Texter has signed a two-year contract extension with the Red Bull KTM Factory Racing Team to compete in the American Flat Track AFT Singles class through the 2021 season. Texter, a Pennsylvania native, will return aboard the KTM…
Tomac Wakes Up to Win Anaheim 2
Monster Energy Kawasaki’s Eli Tomac earned his first AMA Supercross win of the year the hard way in front of 43,106 fans inside Anaheim’s Angel Stadium. After a bad start that had him round the first lap in tenth place, Tomac got into his groove early and started turning the…
Roczen’s Return Complete, Will There be More Wins?
Team Honda HRC’s Ken Roczen earned his first 450SX Class win after what many had thought would be a career-ending injury in 2017. Three seasons worth of events, 50 rounds of which he’d competed in 26, had come and gone since the German rider was able to get back on…
12 Days of Man Cup: Top Fuel
The 2019 Kibblewhite Man Cup World Finals will always be known for one thing—The Pass—and it didn’t even happen during qualifying or eliminations. But that deviantly undeviatingly straight pass to the world’s quickest ET and fastest MPH (5.50 at 264) is seared into the mind of everyone who saw it…
King Racing’s Direct Drive Experiment
Top Fuel Motorcycles in the U.S. have followed the same basic design and layout for decades now, with the possible exception of the parked Alwine family bike that Korry Hogan rode. The bikes in Europe, though, tend to stray from the standard build sheet a bit. And in the case…
Barcia Clears Supercross Field in Anaheim
Monster Energy AMA Supercross twisted the throttle on the 2020 season on a challenging track inside Anaheim’s Angel Stadium in the opener. The track’s tight corners added a level of unpredictability to the racing and instigated several lead changes in both classes in front of the sold out crowd of 45,050. Monster Energy…
Godspeed Bill Simpson
One of the highlights of my PRI show this year was sharing Bill Simpson stories with Del Flores—a fellow former tenant of Lord of the Land Simpson. To know Simpson is to have Simpson stories. Neither of us knew that Bill had a second—and ultimately fatal, I guess—stroke on Friday.…
Quick Learning Fab Man Mike Mullaney
It’s PRI time, which also means it’s “Drag Illustrated” magazine’s “30 under 30” announcement time also. And chassis fabricator and no-bar Suzuki Hayabusa sportsman drag racer Mike Mullaney is on that list. Mullaney took a fairly dramatic leap into the NHRA drag racing consciousness this past season when Pro Stock…
12 Days of Man Cup: Real Street
One class that really caught my attention during the Kibblewhite Man Cup World Finals marathon was Real Street. Sure, the class was won by Jeremy Teasley on a “new” bike, but what about Anibal Merced going to another final on his venerable ’14 and Johnny “Turbo” Dobrin still plying his…
AHDRA Schedule, Sponsors Coming Together
Drag racers of American-made V-Twin motorcycles collectively rejoiced two months ago when news broke that beloved racing organization AHDRA was firing back up and heading to the racetrack. Now AHDRA is announcing a complete schedule and class line-up, showing the tremendous sponsor response and sponsorship opportunities still available. The season…