We’re a long way from deciding the NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle championship, and Gaige Herrera is clearly the runaway dominator so far this year. But wily 6X champ and defending U.S. Nationals winner Matt Smith showed why you can never count him out. As his primary challengers fell by the…
Antron Brown Talks About Getting Today’s Youth into Drag Racing
Antron Brown is arguably the most magnetic drag racing personality since John Force. As he followed the Ron Capps/Don Prudhomme press conference on Monday at the 69th annual NHRA U.S. Nationals at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park, I wondered how he could tap his charisma to bring youth into the…
Capps and Snake talk about the Coolest Tribute Car ever
Something this cool doesn’t just happen everyday in today’s bland, corporate America. Fifty years after Don ‘The Snake’ Prudhomme won the 1973 NHRA U.S. Nationals in Funny Car, reigning event champion Ron Capps put the iconic ‘Snake’ Hot Wheels livery back in the Indy winner’s circle. The throwback look and…
Hoosier Herrera Miles Ahead at Indy
Like Jeff Gordon and Kyle Larson, Gaige Herrera moved from California to Indiana to further his racing career. In Herrera’s case, NHDRO Pro Street was still a thing at the time and his nitrous Suzuki Hayabusa was a series regular. The Pro Street center of the universe moved East, and…
AHDRA Nitro Harleys Return to Light Up Milan
AHDRA/AMA Harley-Davidson motorcycle drag racing is bringing their ground-pounding, flame-throwing Nitro Harley show back to Milan Dragway in Milan, Michigan on July 29-30 for the Second Annual Southern Michigan Bikefest. The men and women of AHDRA will hustle their nitro and gasoline, All-American, V-Twin-powered motorcycles down the Milan quarter mile…
Joey Gladstone Previews NHRA at Gateway
Er’body (except sometimes the NHRA, who didn’t schedule bikes for this stop last year) knows that Gateway is a bike track, and Pro Stock Motorcycle returns to action in St. Louis at this weekend’s NHRA Midwest Nationals at World Wide Technology Raceway. Joey Gladstone and the Cory Reed Racing team…
Eatmyink’s NHRA U.S. Nationals coverage: Top Fuel Harley
Once the Top Fuel Harley action got going at the NHRA U.S. Nationals, it REALLY got going. But with rain delays and the NHRA’s tendency to kick the nitro bikes around more than a soccer ball on a Brazilian playground, it took QUITE a while. Actually, the first qualifying round…
Eatmyink’s NHRA U.S. Nationals coverage: Funny Car
Defending NHRA Camping World Series Funny Car champion Ron Capps raced to victory at Indianapolis Raceway Park, finally capturing that first NHRA U.S. Nationals triumph that had been eluding him for more than two-and-a-half decades and 27 appearances. Capps took his NAPA AutoCare Toyota GR Supra to the finish line…
Eatmyink’s NHRA U.S. Nationals coverage: Pro Stock Car
Greg Anderson picked up his 100th career win at the 68th annual Dodge Power Brokers NHRA U.S. Nationals, capping off a memorable day for the longtime standout at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park. Anderson drove to the milestone win with a run of 6.587-seconds at 208.07 mph in his HendrickCars.com Chevrolet Camaro…
Eatmyink’s NHRA U.S. Nationals Coverage: Factory Stock Showdown
David Barton and his Saw Mill Auto Chevrolet COPO Camaro rallied to the Constant Aviation Factory Stock Showdown victory Monday at the Dodge Power Brokers NHRA U.S. Nationals at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park, the sixth stop on the schedule. Barton—a second generation motorsport mastermind—started the day facing Warren Walcher…
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