Tag Archives: NHRA

Courtney Force Joins JFR’s NHRA Funny Car Team With Traxxas Sponsorship

Courtney Force Joins JFR’s NHRA Funny Car Team With Traxxas Sponsorship

John Force Racing will be a four-car entity this year as Force’s daughter Courtney joins John, brother-in-law Robert Hight and Mike Neff as Funny Car drivers in NHRA’s Full Throttle Drag... 

Doug Herbert To Be Inducted Into North Carolina Drag Racing Hall Of Fame

Doug Herbert To Be Inducted Into North Carolina Drag Racing Hall Of Fame

NHRA Top Fuel racer Doug Herbert will be inducted into the North Carolina Drag Racing Hall of Fame in Greensboro, N.C., Jan. 13, joining other legendary racers, including Ronnie Sox, Rickie Smith,... 

Top NHRA Drag Racing Team Taps Persian Gulf Driver

Top NHRA Drag Racing Team Taps Persian Gulf Driver

Al-Anabi Racing, a leading team in the NHRA’s premier Full Throttle drag-racing series, said Wednesday that Khalid alBalooshi would drive one of its two top-fuel dragsters next season. The... 

Ford Racing Continues The Mustang Cobra Jet Program For 2013 With New Engine Options

Ford Racing Continues The Mustang Cobra Jet Program For 2013 With New Engine Options

Ford kicked off its turn-key drag racing program with the debut of the Mustang Cobra Jet in 2008, and since then both Dodge and Chevrolet have joined the party with the Mopar Challenger Drag Pak and... 

12-Year-Old Dominates National Drag Racing Scene

12-Year-Old Dominates National Drag Racing Scene

Springfield, TN – Jay Fox’s room looks like any other boy’s room his age. At 12 years old, he has a bunk bed, a television and a video game system amongst an assortment of toys. Like... 

Del Worsham, Matt Hagan Seize First NHRA Championships

Del Worsham, Matt Hagan Seize First NHRA Championships

POMONA, Calif. (AP) – Del Worsham and Matt Hagan raced to their first NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series championships and won Sunday in the season-ending Auto Club NHRA Finals. Worsham took the Top... 

Top Fuel And Funny Car: Razor-Thin Full Throttle Points Battles Peak At Pomona

Top Fuel And Funny Car: Razor-Thin Full Throttle Points Battles Peak At Pomona

Since the NHRA Full Throttle Countdown started in 2007, we’re witnessing the tightest points battle in the 60 years since the sport’s inception. It’s all on the line at this weekend’s... 

Four-Time Champion Jeg Coughlin To Return To Drag Racing

Four-Time Champion Jeg Coughlin To Return To Drag Racing

Jeg Coughlin returned from his last NHRA sabbatical to win consecutive Pro Stock titles, and he has similar expectations in coming back again in 2012. “I feel fantastic,” the four-time... 

Perkinson To Drive New Mustang Pro Stock For Larry Morgan

Perkinson To Drive New Mustang Pro Stock For Larry Morgan

Pro Stock racer Buddy Perkinson will wrap up his season running the final two events on the 2011 NHRA Full Throttle Series.Perkinson, of Prince George, Va., will drive a second Mustang for Pro Stock... 

NHRA: Beckman, Dixon And Nobile Collect Wins At Phoenix Meet

NHRA: Beckman, Dixon And Nobile Collect Wins At Phoenix Meet

Jack Beckman raced to his third Firebird International Raceway win and took over the Funny Car points lead as racing came to a close on Sunday at the NHRA Arizona Nationals in Phoenix. Larry Dixon in Top...