Saturday, December 31, 2005


Chuck Horvath's Damn Yankee Funny Car
Chuck Horvath and his two sons, Brad and Mark, had a 15 year dream to build a competitive drag car. Through hard work, the dream has come true.
HeadsUpRacer.com
Drag Racing News, Websites, Motorsports Marketing. This is a nice website. How did we miss it for so long?
Dragway 42 Pictures from the Past
70s flopper and fueler pics from Ohio's Dragway 42.
Craig Sutton's 1964 Ford Thunderbolt Website
Dedicated to the 1964 Ford Fairlane Thunderbolt. These 100 special purpose built drag cars helped Ford Motor Company capture the NHRA Super Stock title that year.

Friday, December 30, 2005


Mickey Thompson - M/T
A web page in memory of Mickey Thompson - M/T - one of Motor Sports' greatest innovators and drivers.

Thursday, December 29, 2005


Patriotic Matchup
David Graves caught this classic matchup of two armed forces sponsored funny cars. Bob Pickett and Tom McEwen get it on during the Fourth of July weekend in 1976.

Today in History
Badco traces the origins of the terms 'drag racing' and 'Rock & Roll' with varying degrees of success.

Tuesday, December 27, 2005

2005 Drag Racing Driver Earnings
Steve presents his list of 2005 driver winnings from national events, special races, and world championship payouts. Pro driver winnings include Rookie of the Year and Motel 6 money. Top Alcohol driver winnings include Lucas Oil Top 2, Division Champs Top 3, and Division #1 Qualifier money.

Mike Dunn at US-131
Kevin shares this shot of Mike Dunn doing something that many fans wish he'd give another shot -- driving a top notch fuel car on the NHRA trail.

Sunday, December 25, 2005


2005 Competition Plus Dot.Com Awards
Time again to vote for your favorite drivers, sponsors, magazines, websites, etc. for the past drag racing season.

Funny Car Nose Art
David Hapgood submits two examples of funny car nose art from the 1970s, an era when race fans cheered for drivers and paint jobs alike!

Beware the Iceman!
"The Iceman" Shannon Jenkins is preparing for battle in 2006. Jenkins scored the biggest P/ST wins of 2005 at Orlando and Vegas. The competition has been warned.
MUNSTERKOACH.COM
Happy holidays! Here's a fun site to check out... remember those great Munsters hot rods?

Friday, December 23, 2005


goDragRacing.com's Year In Review 2005
This terrific door car site always runs down its past year in a great end of year write up. Again, they've honored draglist.com by mentioning our partnership as one of their top 20 accomplishments of the year.


Eurodragster.com interview Ashley Force

When John Force came to London to receive the John Bolster Award for
achievement at the 2005 Autosport Awards, he brought his family along with him. In between interviewing John and organising a photo-shoot in Park Lane, Eurodragster.com and Roger Gorringe managed to grab a quick word with John's daughter Ashley, who drives the Darien and Meadows A/Fuel Dragster. We asked Ashley about being a Force, about her 2005 season, about her plans for 2006, and about her plans to turn Pro with a Fuel Funny Car.
Drag Racing Unplugged VII
As has become traditional on our last pre-Christmas update, we have posted our collection of the season's best quotes from Eurodragster.coms's live Event Coverage, and others we didn't publish at the time. We are pleased to present Drag Racing Unplugged VII, the 2005 collection.

Thursday, December 22, 2005


60s Funny Cars: Round 5
In an age of cookie cutter funny cars and rules outlawing new developments, we flash back to a decade when two funny cars were seldom alike. These racers were free thinkers. Some ideas worked; some did not. But more often that not, ingenuity beat out store bought horsepower.

She's Still Fine!
The 409 powered Bel Air Chevy bubbletop used to dominate the stock classes. Time and being victums of their own success ran the old cars out of the class. Aubrey Burneau brought this little gem out of the woodwork to race in D/Stock.

Boom-n-Duck!
Joel Johanssen, son of a funny car racer, recalls a childhood experience with a wayward blower.

Tuesday, December 20, 2005


70s Funny Cars: Round 40
We have a menagerie of new funny cars for the Round 40, from the "Stroker" match bash car to the sleek "Black Stang,” and even the "Greek" thrown in for good measure!