After nearly two years since his last No. 1 qualifier, Funny Car driver Tony Bartone raced to the provisional top spot Friday at the O’Reilly NHRA Summer Nationals.
Larry Dixon and Dave Connolly were also No. 1 qualifiers in their respective categories at the ninth of 24 events on the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series.
Bartone drove [...]

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Rumors of a nitro shortage appear to be true - NHRA cancelling post event testing, including August testing session at Indianapolis, recommends teams use methanol for pit warmups.
From the article:
National Hot Rod Association officials met with POWERade Series teams Friday afternoon to announce measures to conserve the use of nitromethane — used in the Top [...]

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With air temperatures teetering near 90 all day and track temperatures bumped up near 120 degrees, competitors got their first taste of summer conditions during the opening day of action at the O’Reilly NHRA Summer Nationals presented by Castrol GTX, and Larry Dixon, Tony Bartone, and Dave Connolly adapted best to the hot, muggy conditions, [...]

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TOPEKA, Kan. - It must have felt a bit like proving themselves all over again.
In 2006, Melanie Troxel reached a stunning nine final rounds with two wins in her first year of fulltime competition in Top Fuel, good enough for a fourth-place finish on the year. Then she followed that with another two-win season in [...]

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Milan, Mich., May 26, 2008: All across America young men are borrowing their father’s car for the weekend, some to impress a special young lady, others to haul their possessions home from school. 20 year-old college student, Daniel Wilkerson borrowed his dad’s car this weekend. Only he didn’t get a big SUV [...]

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With three races in the book heading into Maryland International Raceway, the 2008 IHRA championship points chases are starting to take shape. One thing is for sure, this season’s Torco President’s Cup Nationals will force each and every race team to swing for the fences if they want to be players in this season’s title [...]

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The veteran NHRA and IHRA competitor from Gastonia, N.C. gets his chance to recharge Friday night at Bristol Dragway with a diverse program dubbed the Night of Fire.
“It’s cool to race a guy like (14-time world champion) John Force, but sometimes the fans really like to see a jet-powered race car along with a Funny [...]

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It may be the busiest non-NHRA-racing weekend of the year, but many teams of the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series are from sitting out around the backyard barbecuing steaks. From Indianapolis to Charlotte, many of NHRA’s top drivers and teams are taking advantage of the intense focus on the weekend’s Indianapolis 500 and Coca-Cola 600 [...]

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John Force and Mike Neff started their engines. Both lurched closer to the starting line.
Then the flag dropped on the first race at zMAX Dragway @ Concord.
Sure, there was no pavement. There were no Ford Funny Cars.
What they did have were dump trucks and, technically, a track. So the drivers of the NHRA POWERade Series [...]

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MILAN, Mich. (March 24, 2008) – Dan Wilkerson (Springfield, Ill.) has made quite a splash in his Nitro Funny Car debut. The son of current NHRA Nitro Funny Car points leader Tim Wilkerson set a provisional IHRA world record during Friday’s qualifying session with a 4.831 pass at 316.01 mph. Despite failing to back [...]

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