According to The Shop magazine, racing historian Leo Levine investigated who came up with the nickname that stuck. Credit, he determined, went to Fran Hernandez, the head of Mercury’s racing program, ...

When you look at the mega-complicated, mega-buck operations that take place these days for Top Fuel Nitromethane cars to run sub-4-second 1,000-foot passes at well over 300 mph, it's easy to forget ...

The C3 Corvette certainly looked fast in Funny Car form, but along with its sexy silhouette came a reputation for treacherous high-speed handling. One of the most famous of these allegedly cursed C3 ...

Funny Car rookie Spencer Hyde scored his first career No. 1 qualifier on Saturday, securing the top spot in front of a ...

KEARNEY — More than 32 funny cars are heading to Kearney Raceway Park to compete for more than $35,000 in prize money during the June 11-12 Funny Car Chaos Championship Series. The high horsepower ...

The original Fuel Altereds were the insane "exhibition" cars that plundered several NHRA eliminators at national events. And the drivers were the nitro cowboys who rode these wild beasts. There are ...

Drag racing legend John Force, 75, had a catastrophic malfunction in his Funny Car at full noise in the first round of the NHRA Virginia Nationals on Sunday. Force was taken to a hospital where he’s ...

The Texas Motorplex in Ennis will host the Funny Car Chaos season opener for the third year in a row. Races get underway at the drag racing track March 16-18. A funny car has single piece of carbon ...

An inside look at the engines that propel the funny cars of drag racing from zero to you-can’t-be-serious in four seconds. By Paul Stenquist At the head of a straight ribbon of pavement, a swarm of ...

The 1970s was a golden era for drag racing, a time when legends were made on the quarter-mile strip. This period saw the rise ...

The main point of the Golden Age of American Muscle was to produce cars that could blow the doors off of other cars. Detroit didn't crank out fast cars just so they would be driven responsibly, and ...

The short-wheelbase early Corvettes were blessed with a very good front-to-rear weight bias, a characteristic that predisposed them to extravagant wheelstands. Most racers installed wheelie bars-small ...