The final round of the 2019 European FIM Championships at Santa Pod Raceway will always be remembered for the stunning string of records laid down by Top Fuel Bike champion Filippos Papafilippou and the Gulf Oil Racing Puma (above). The event was disrupted on Friday by rain during qualifying between…
AMRA Jim McClure Nationals at The Rock
Persistent rain showers washed out the 28th annual Jim McClure Memorial All-Harley Nitro World Finals Sunday at Rockingham Dragway, but not before Randal “Fast Coonass” Andras won the Top Fuel championship for himself and Jay Turner Racing, and definitely not before I got some good snaps and video on Saturday.…
AHDRA Back on Track in 2020
There’s good news for drag racers of American-made V-Twin motorcycles. AHDRA has been purchased by Pulse Marketing, the Pennsylvania-based motorsports promotion company run by veteran drag racer Bill Rowe Jr. and family. AHDRA was THE place to drag race Harley-Davidsons in the 2000s, with racers crisscrossing the country with the…
AMRA back in Bowling Green
The American Motorcycle Racing Association (AMRA) started the first season with their new ownership team at Bowling Green, Kentucky’s Beech Bend Raceway in April, and returned there this past weekend for the third time this year. This time around, though, the field was packed with Top Fuel—including Jay Turner and…
“Happy as a Pup with Two Peters” Tharpe, Andras and JTR
You can imagine that the Jay Turner Racing compound was the scene a damn good party when Tii Tharpe won his second straight NHRA Top Fuel Harley championship and the fourth straight for JTR. But that party was ratcheted up even more since Tharpe’s JTR teammate Randal Andras won his very first…
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…
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…
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…
Moxley at the Main Event: Santa Pod
The 2019 European FIM Championships got underway at Santa Pod Raceway with the Main Event under overcast skies and showers on and off on Sunday and Monday of the Whitsun bank holiday weekend. Some new records were set at the meeting. Top Fuel Bike Rikard Gustafsson dominated Top Fuel Bike…
EDRS Pro Nordic MC round 3 is “Go” at Gardermoen
The EDRS Pro Nordic Motorcycle Championship is at the halfway point of the season and, with the Drag Challenge at Gardermoen Raceway in Norway, the riders kick off part two of their title race. After two races, Marcus Christiansen, Filippos Papafilippou, Fredrik Fredlund and Vesa Ruhanen are the leaders in…