The National Hot Rod Ass’n’s Kragen O’Reilly Winternationals turned out to be a mixed bag for three-time Top Fuel champion Larry Dixon. He qualified No. 1 with the national elapsed-time record at Auto Club Raceway but lost in the opening round to No. 16 qualifier Terry McMillen.
Morgan Lucas (Top Fuel), Robert Hight (Funny Car) and Jason Line (Pro Stock) kicked off NHRA’s 60th anniversary season by hoisting the hardware in the season-opening Kragen O’Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Winternationals.
No telling exactly what Mike Green, crew chief for Tony Schumacher’s U.S. Army Dragster, was fishing for in the alligator-stocked canal that surrounds Florida’s Palm Beach Int’l Raceway.
Drag racing multi-team owner Don Schumacher, the consummate entrepreneur, has transcended all the doom-and-gloom economics.
With dueling 3.77-second elapsed times, Don Schumacher Racing’s Tony Schumacher and Antron Brown captured the NHRA Top Fuel class honors Saturday night at the PRO Winter Warm-up test session at Palm Beach Int’l Raceway.
Good gracious. Does John Force have to do everything? Is it not enough that his organization has claimed 17 of the past 21 National Hot Rod Ass’n Funny Car championships and that he won 15 of them?
Finding that special Valentine’s Day gift often can cause anxiety. However, longtime auto-racing writer Louis Brewster, sports editor of Southern California’s Inland Valley Daily Bulletin and The San Bernardino Sun, has a suggestion for you — and it will ease someone else’s fear.
All the hot news from John Force Racing came Jan. 25 from his Yorba Linda, Calif., facility. A testimony to Force’s penchant for drama, he used his preseason press conference to fire a barrage of blockbuster news. Any one item would have packed a powerful punch by itself
Two-time reigning Mac Tools U.S. Nationals Champion Ashley Force Hood will be stepping out of her John Force Racing Funny Car — at least for this season.
All the king’s horsepower and all the king’s men put John Force back together again from the destruction of his Dallas accident and a winless, ninth-place 2009 season. Physical therapists whipped him into his best physical shape, his crew chiefs gave him a Ford Mustang worthy of its 25th Castrol-sponsorship anniversary livery and he hit the gym faithfully every day.
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