New England Dragway wants to serve alcohol at races (Exeter News-Letter)
EPPING — Next year race fans may be drinking a beer at New England Dragway events instead of a soda. Read full story
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2008 Knoll Gas Nitro Jam Tickets on Sale Today
Now you will be able to get your Knoll Gas Nitro Jam national event tickets earlier than ever and save some money in the process. Tickets for most of the Knoll Gas Nitro Jam series will be… Read full story
Bobby Lagana Jr. Joins Forces with Evan Knoll (Speed TV)
Veteran Top Fuel pilot will take seat of Knoll’s Seelye Wright rail in 2008 Evan Knoll knows passion for drag racing. The Michigan-based fuel and natural gas magnate, owner of Knoll Gas, Torco Racing Fuels and a number of other broad-based companies headquartered in Decatur, Mich., has sponsored a number of drag racing teams and … Read more
2008 Summit Team Finals Dates and Locations Announced
For the second consecutive year IHRA has expanded the Summit Team Finals schedule to continue to cut down the costs of traveling for sportsman racers. For 2008 a new Summit Team Finals event… Read full story
Quaker City Raceway Inks Three Year Sanction Agreement
The rumble of IHRA drag racing will prevail along the Ohio-Pennsylvania through the 2010 racing season. Quaker City Raceway, a ¼ mile asphalt strip in Salem, Ohio, has signed a… Read full story
Super simulations slow time to catch quantum mechanics of explosions (EETimes)
Scientists are finally able to explain the violent transformation that explosives undergo after creating detailed simulations on a supercomputer that slow time down long enough to conjure the explosives’ quantum mechanisms. Read full story
NHRA mandates crash sensors for Funny Car, Top Fuel classes (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
By JOHN STURBIN All vehicles competing in the NHRA’s volatile Funny Car and Top Fuel classes next year will be equipped with Ford Racing “Blue Box” crash sensors, the result of seven months of testing primarily conducted by star-crossed John Force Racing in 2007. Ford Racing offered the crash sensors — mandatory equipment in the … Read more
Thompson Raceway Park Signs with IHRA for Three Years
Historic Track East of Cleveland Joins IHRA Family of Member Tracks. If you grew up in the Cleveland area you are all too familiar with the radio… Read full story
Antron Brown Gainesville test preview (Motorsport.com)
BROWNSBURG, Ind. (Dec. 14, 2007) — Antron Brown will again familiarize himself with the Matco Tools Top Fuel dragster when the David Powers-owned Top Fuel team begins its off season testing program at Gainesville (Fla.) Raceway on Dec. 17. Read full story
NHRA: Q&A with Gary Scelzi (Speed TV)
Q: So, we hear you’re running the Chili Bowl in January? Is that true? A: It is absolutely true. I own a USAC pavement car and a USAC dirt car that (17-year-old) Michael Faccinto drives. Read full story