On October 16, Johnny Bohmer, owner of Performance Power Racing, strapped himself into the driver’s seat of his 1,700+ horsepower Ford GT, then pointed the nose towards the end of NASA’s Shuttle Landing Facility runway.
The 15,000 foot runway, located on Merritt Island, would give Bohmer plenty of shut-down room after attempting to set a new standing mile speed record. With the folks from Guinness World Records on hand, Bohmer launched his Ford GT into the history books, achieving a standing mile speed of 283.232 miles per hour.
Some people get their adrenaline fix on a motocross track, banging bars with a dozen other racers. Others find it dodging trees through the forest on their favorite trail system. For drag racers, adrenaline comes in short, powerful bursts 300 feet at a time.
On our recent outing to the Oregon Dunefest we spent a good bit of time watching ATVs, side-by-sides and just about any other high horsepower contraption you can imagine making tracks down the drag strip. Drag racing is a huge part of the weeklong festivities held every year and people come from across the country to test man and machine for the title of king of the dunes  … Pictures and more
Ed Krawiec and Andrew Hines have had a near perfect season: in the first 13 finals of the 16-race Pro Stock Motorcycle 2012 schedule, they combined to win 12 races, the only hiccup coming in Dallas when Michael Ray won his first career Wally (note: the PSM finals from Maple Grove Raceway, postponed due to weather, will be run at Las Vegas). The Screamin’ Eagles Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson duo is separated by just 17 points going into the second-to-last event on the 2012 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series schedule, the Big O Tires NHRA Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Thursday through Sunday, October 25th through 28th, with Krawiec in the lead. As multiple-time champions (Krawiec in 2008 and 2011, Hines with three straight from 2004 to 2006), they both know how  … More