Today's Drag Racing News

News

Drag racing and ballet keep Trenton teen on her toes Belleville News Democrat (A funny car is a drag racing class with cars that vaguely resemble showroom models, but have larger rear tires and a front-mounted V-8 engine.) While the possibility of owning such a car is enticing, Jessica has other loyalties. "It's happened when ... See all stories on this topic » Belleville News Democrat

2012 O'Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Nationals preview Examiner.com The stars of the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series begin their six-race "playoffs" on two of the tracks four drag strips, joined by the sportsman and alcohol divisions of the Lucas Oil Series as well as the NHRA Pro Mod Series presented by ProCare Rx. See all stories on this topic » Examiner.com

Schumacher Collects Ninth US Nationals Wally RacinToday.com Schumacher defeated Don Schumacher Racing teammate Spencer Massey's Prestone/FRAM team in the championship round to break a tie with drag racing legend "Big Daddy" Don Garlits with eight titles at Lucas Oil Raceway near Indianapolis in the NHRA ... See all stories on this topic » RacinToday.com

Drag racer grateful for help Mackay Daily Mercury Contributed. TOWNSVILLE drag racing driver Trevor Batley can't believe he walked away with just black eyes from a 280kph crash at Palmyra Dragway in which his car rolled more than six times. "I'll have very nice black eyes for two or three weeks," he ... See all stories on this topic »

2012 NHRA: Brown, Matco Top Fuel Team Desire Top-Seed Going To Countdown PaddockTalk Winning the U.S. Nationals or any other title is every driver's goal at the start of an NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series event, but Brown and Don Schumacher Racing's Matco Tools team also wants to leave the track as the No. 1-ranked team heading ... See all stories on this topic »

Malta wins the FIA European Top Methanol Championship 2012 DI-VE Manty Bugeja of Mr. Whippy Racing Team, a member of the Malta Drag Racing Association (MDRA), won the FIA European Top Methanol Dragster Championship 2012. This is the first time ever that such a prestigious FIA title was won by a Maltese team. See all stories on this topic »

Midnight Drags Kick Off Drag Week 2012 Hot Rod Magazine (blog) Still, we're out here for Drag Week and we wanted to see some drag racing. Tomorrow (or actually, today, but later today) is registration but we couldn't wait that long, so we headed out in to the night to find us some tire smoke. It's an addiction, we ... See all stories on this topic » Hot Rod Magazine (blog)

Grass drags, swap meet Saturday at fairgrounds Brainerd Daily Dispatch When the track was built, drag racing was a big-dollar sport with racers coming from as far away as Canada and the East Coast. It was a 2-day event with big payouts and more factory backing. Today, the event has low entry fees with classes for everyone ... See all stories on this topic »

Web

Wednesday And-1 Links: Tim Duncan likes drag racing ... Here is our regular look around the NBA — links to stories worth reading and notes to check out (stuff that did not get its own post here at PBT) — done in bullet ... probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/.../wednesday-and-1-links-tim...