NHRA Top Fuel: Brown takes second-round lead

POMONA — So much for being a rookie. Making just his second run down the quarter-mile at a national event in a Top Fuel dragster, Antron Brown sped to the head of the sport’s quickest and fastest class on Friday during second-round qualifying for the NHRA season opener. The former Pro Stock Motorcycle rider, who … Read more

Hillary Will is world’s fastest woman

She’s not satisfied, but it’s a heckuva start. Fortuna native and third-year NHRA Top Fuel veteran Hillary Will did not make the Countdown to the Championships last year, but if you heard her voice, you’d have been hard-pressed to say she wasn’t eager to do better this time around. Well, on Thursday she got a … Read more

Mike Neff profile

Mike Neff, who won his first NHRA Funny Car championship from outside the cockpit, hopes to win his next one from the inside as a member of John Force Racing’s Next Generation of professional drivers. A native of Hemet, Calif., where he grew up racing dirt bikes and off-road trucks, Neff will contest the 2008 … Read more

Robert Hight profile

Officially, Robert “Top Gun” Hight lost the NHRA POWERade Funny Car Championship last year by 19 points, roughly the equivalent of one racing round. Unofficially, he lost it by .001 of a second, the margin by which he fell short of the one per cent backup run that would have certified a season-opening… Read full … Read more

“The Sarge” readies for NHRA season

With the 2008 NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series campaign less than a month away, Army Top Fuel driver Tony ‘The Sarge’ Schumacher is already figuring on another edge-of-your-seat type of season. After securing two straight world championships at the last race and in the final round each time, Schumacher assumes the script will remain the … Read more