The cars have fired up for the last time in 2018. Theyʻre now parked for the winter so they can be stripped down and prepared for 2019 over the next few months. The haulers are parked, the team members and drivers are back home with their families. The motorhomes can …
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Just one more race left in the 2018 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season, and that means that very soon, you will have no new NHRA drag racing to watch. Drivers and teams will begin testing in January and be back on the track to kick off 2019 in …
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There’s still one more race left in the 2018 Mello Yello Series season, but one championship has already been awarded and a second is really just a matter of the driver just showing up in Pomona. Steve Torrence collected his Top Fuel championship trophy in Las Vegas, while Tanner Gray …
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Most of the time, the big teams, which tend to have the most corporate support and money, tend to rule the roost. The little teams, with less support and money and fewer resources, struggle to keep up. And yet, for the moment, it seems that this is not quite the …
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How about your Funny Car points leader Robert Hight? He’s won two in a row and pulled away from hard-charging J.R. Todd to lead by 50 points. But wait, there’s more. The first of those two wins, a few weeks ago in St. Louis, came in spectacular (and perhaps a more …
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After a week off to regroup, two Countdown races loom in the coming weeks for the NHRA Mello Yello Series drag racers. First up is the AAA Texas NHRA Fall Nationals from Texas, followed the next weekend by the NHRA Carolina Nationals from Charlotte. Just two-wide this time. None of …
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It seems like the 2018 season just started, and now there are just five more races to go before it’s all over — five races left for drivers to make their championship dreams come true this year. Four capitalized on that opportunity by winning the first event of the Countdown …
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Everyone is anxious to get off to the best possible start for the Countdown. At this point, with just a 20 point lead for the top seeds, a dominant regular season no longer matters. What matters is a dominant Countdown. It’s also a new life for the drivers in the …
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The biggest racing weekend of the NHRA year has passed, and after the dust settled, it was Terry McMillen, J.R. Todd, Tanner Gray and LE Tonglet holding the big trophies and the bragging rights. For McMillen, it was just his second career Top Fuel win, but it was something he …
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This weekend is the biggest one of the NHRA schedule — the Chevrolet Performance U.S. Nationals from Indianapolis. It’s the Daytona 500 or the Indy 500 of NHRA drag racing. It’s also the last chance for drivers in the Mello Yello categories to make it into the six-race Countdown to …
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