Cory McClenathan claimed his first Top Fuel win in more than a year, and Tim Wilkerson ended a winless drought that extends back to the 2004 Sonoma event during the final rounds of the SummitRacing.com NHRA Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. McClenathan, in his first full season as a member of [...]

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Cruz Pedregon leads the Funny Car points standings for the first time since April 25, 1998. Seven different drivers have reached a final round in the category with just four races in the books, including Del Worsham, who broke a two-year drought with his win in Houston after not making the field at the first [...]

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Safety has its price, and Funny Car teams have been paying for it this season with erratic performances and slower runs through four NHRA events.
Memories of Eric Medlen’s fatal crash a year ago, however, muffle complaining.
His father, John Medlen, and their John Force Racing team have…
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In his first season running an IHRA Nitro Funny Car, Andy Kelley of Piedmont proved there was plenty room in big-time drag racing for a mom-and-pop team.
Kelley finished fifth in the 2007 point standings, and he’s convinced the team can take another step forward beginning this weekend with the season’s first event.
The 7,000-horsepower nitro-fueled rock…
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LAS VEGAS: Tim Wilkerson moved into position for his third No. 1 qualifier of the season Friday, leading the Funny Car field in the SummitRacing.com NHRA Nationals with a quarter-mile pass of 4.850 seconds at 318.24 mph….
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The drag racing community is extremely tight and families have long histories with one another. Just look at the Force and Worsham clans.
John Force and Chuck Worsham have competed against one another for years in Funny Car, Force as a driver/owner and Worsham as a owner/tuner for son Del of Chino Hills.
Last Sunday in Houston, [...]

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Punctuating a relationship that dates back five years, two-time POWERade Funny Car champion Tony Pedregon has unveiled a Palms Hotel and Casino design on his Q Horsepower Chevrolet Impala SS for the upcoming ninth annual SummitRacing.com NHRA Nationals in Las Vegas.
The car will make its official debut Thursday night at the Palms Hotel and Casino [...]

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IHRA racers and fans now have a way to connect with each other and keep track of everything going on in the Knoll Gas Nitro Jam, Summit Racing Equipment Pro-Am Tour and Summit SuperSeries. IHRA Race Space is a new social networking site which will allow you to create a profile, make friends…
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Steven Macklyn earned his first Ironman at the Texas Nationals. Macklyn captured the Knoll Gas – Torco Racing Fuels Pro Nitro Funny Car Ironman by stopping defending Champion Dale Creasy Jr. in the final round….
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It is more than a year a year away, but Pittsburgh Raceway Park in New Alexandria has been named host of a national event — the International Hot Rod Association’s Nitro Jam.
PRP officials entered big-league racing by working out a five-year deal with IHRA beginning in May 2009…
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