New SFI Funny Car chassis spec is the product of a combined effort of experts
Since its inception in 1951, the National Hot Rod Association has worked hand in hand with race teams, manufacturers, the SFI Foundation, and other outside parties with the shared goal of enhancing race car safety. The most recent such effort, which produced a new SFI 10.5 chassis specification for nitro Funny Car construction, is the final product of a process that included more than nine months of testing, research, and data analysis. The new specification...
Read the full story about the new Funny Car spec. at NHRA.com
Tags: Funny Car, NHRA, Nitro, race, safety, SFIForce, happy to be back to racing, is already counting many victories
Fourteen-time Funny Car champion John Force didn't lose his flair for the dramatic or his passion for NHRA POWERade drag racing in last September's dramatic accident that sidelined him for four months. He thrilled the faithful at the season-opening CARQUEST Auto Parts NHRA Winternationals by waiting until the last qualifying session to make the field and then racing through to the semifinals in typical Force fashion.
The winner of a record 125 NHRA national events also touted the numerous safety changes in the Funny Car class that his team, along with NHRA, is spearheading and addressed the concerns of the naysayers who are resistant to change. It's obvious Force is more concerned about building a better car than he is with...
Read Rob Geiger's full interview with John Force at NHRA.com
Tags: drag racing, Force, Funny Car, John Force, NHRA, Powerade, racing, safetyNHRA: Winning Funny Car built for safety
John Force proved you don't have to slow down to be safe in the NHRA.
Driving a revolutionary Funny Car designed to help bring the class into the 21st century, Robert Hight defeated Cruz Pedregon by 7 feet in the Funny Car final to give John Force Racing its 18th victory at Auto Club Raceway.
Hight clocked in 4.861 seconds at 284.39 mph in the NHRA season opener, which was slightly quicker than...
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Tags: Cruz Pedregon, Force, Funny Car, Hight, John Force, NHRA, Pedregon, race, racing, Robert Hight, safetyBuzz on strip all about big changes
After perhaps the most eventful of its 57 years, the National Hot Rod Association will settle for a little peace this season.
Of course, the sanctioning body bears some responsibility for 2007's upheaval by creating the Countdown to the Championship, a six-event playoff that...
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Tags: NHRA, safety, WinternationalsTo John Force, safety is everything in racing
For three decades, John Force raced by the same creed that Vince Lombardi preached while coaching football: “Winning is everything.”
And no one won more than Force – 14 drag racing season championships and 125 events.
But Force's view of everything – life as well as racing – changed last year during a season that the driver yesterday recalled as “a nightmare of heartbreak.” ...
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Tags: drag racing, Force, John Force, race, racing, safetyIHRA and Fast Track Medical Response Systems Introduce Medical Bracelet to Drag Racing
The International Hot Rod Association has joined with Fast Track Medical Response Systems, LLC in implementing a new program that will greatly enhance the medical services provided to competitors, teammates and employees at Knoll Gas Nitro Jam National Events in 2008. IHRA is the first drag racing sanctioning body to implement the Fast Track Medical Response System.
Fast Track Medical Response Systems, LLC is a company that has introduced computer chip technology into the medical response arena in the auto racing community...
Tags: drag racing, IHRA, Knoll Gas, Nitro, race, racing, safetyFord and NHRA team up on safety
December 14, 2007 by Robert
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(Thanks to NHRA.COM)
Accelerating safety development in the sport of drag racing, the NHRA and Ford Racing jointly announced today that all cars in the Funny Car and Top Fuel classes will be outfitted with the Ford Racing “Blue Box†crash sensors for the 2008 season.
“Ford, like the NHRA, is committed to continuously improving safety. [...]
405,000 toys recalled due to lead paint
November 9, 2007 by Robert
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More than 405,000 children's products made in China, most of them toy cars, were recalled Wednesday for containing dangerous levels of lead, a government safety group announced. The recall includes about 380,000 Pull-Back Action Toy Cars imported by Dollar General Merchandising Inc. of Goodlettsville, Tenn., and 7,500 Dragster and Funny Car toys imported by International Sourcing Ltd. of ...
Read full story at The Charlotte Observer