Medford, Oregon’s Mike Austin goes for a wild ride during Top Alcohol Dragster Round 1 at the 2012 Winternationals. Mike amazingly walked away from this incident.
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Surviving more than 40 years of nitro-methane fires, engine explosions and living life driving a race car at breath-taking speeds few can comprehend, reaching your 80th birthday is a milestone worth celebrating. For Donald Glenn Garlits, better known the world over as “Big Daddy,†a simple cake just would not suffice. On the eve of the NHRA’s season-opening Winternationals this weekend, more than 300 people packed a hotel ballroom in Pomona, Calif, to roast drag racing’s top driver.
Billed as “Don Garlits’ Rat Roast†in honor of the 34 race cars he built that were known as “Swamp Rat  … More
Courtney Force, daughter of drag-racing icon John Force, made an impressive run in her first trip down the drag strip Thursday driving in the sport’s elite funny car series.
In the first day of qualifying for the NHRA Winternationals at Auto Club Raceway in Pomona, 23-year-old Courtney Force covered the 1,000-foot run in   … More
Drag racing has a new Force to be reckoned with.
Courtney Force, 23, the youngest daughter of drag-racing legend John Force, will make her debut in the sport’s top series this weekend at the season-opening NHRA Winternationals in Pomona that start Thursday.
She’s driving one of the 7,000-horsepower Ford funny cars for her dad’s Yorba Linda team in  … Pictures and more