Joey Shipe has been participating in the sport of ATV dirt drag racing long enough to have learned one thing with certainty — the only thing harder than the start of the race is trying to stop afterward.
Shipe, a Front Royal native, runs in multiple classes as part of the traveling Go Broke Racing ATV dirt drag circuit, including the top-end Open class that allows unlimited modifications. Shipe’s fastest bike can cover the 300-foot clay track at the Warren County Fairgrounds in four seconds  … More
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KENT, Wash. — One is the baby girl of drag racing legend John Force. She learned to talk almost as fast as she drives by watching her motormouth dad become the sport’s most famous and most successful driver.
The other is an unassuming Texan, a quiet but determined woman who had a movie made about her life as a teenage drag racer because she was regularly beating the boys.
Courtney Force and Erica Enders are as different as two young women can be until they get in a race car. They shared a memorable moment Sunday in the Northwest Nationals  … More
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Top Fuel driver Doug Kalitta led a record-setting day of qualifying Friday at the NHRA Sonoma Nationals.
Cruz Pedregon (Funny Car, LEFT), Allen Johnson (Pro Stock) and Eddie Krawiec (Pro Stock Motorcycle) also were qualifying leaders at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series event just north of San Francisco. Kalitta, a five-time winner at Sonoma, covered the distance with a track record time of   … MoreÂ
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NHRA Funny Car rookie driver Courtney Force has waited about 17 years to get to where she is today, racing in NHRA’s premiere Full Throttle Drag Racing Series.
Force, at 24, is the youngest of 15-time Funny Car champion John Force’s four daughters. Force said she has wanted to be a race car driver since she was 7 years old, and her father predicted early on that Courtney would likely be the daughter to follow in his footsteps  … More
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