Del Worsham edged teammate Larry Dixon by 0.0048 seconds – about 6 inches – in the Top Fuel final Sunday in the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMAX Dragway Sunday.
Jack Beckman (Funny Car) and Greg Anderson (Pro Stock) also  … More
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Joining the popular Wednesday Night Drags and “Top the Copsâ€, running through Nov. 16, on Infineon Raceway’s mid-week line-up on Wednesday, May 4, will be the all-new Sonoma Drift program, which will provide a safe, legal and controlled environment in which professionals and amateurs can hone their drifting skills.
Sonoma Drift Drifting is a high-skill motor sport that calls for drivers to control a high-horsepower car while it slides sideways at high speed through a marked course. Drivers are judged  … More
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Shades of the Sixties. A factory-built drag-strip only version of the Dodge Challenger pony car, the Mopar Challenger V-10 Drag Pak, has set a new National Hot Rod Association record.
Back in the Sixties, drag racing was the place to be. The Beach Boys even sang songs about it. If a car maker hoped to reach the elusive youth market, they had to, in the word of Jan and Dean, “burn up that quarter mile.” Out of that came specially-equipped drag strip ready cars, including the Thunderbolt Fairlanes, the COPO Chevrolets and the Super Stock Dodges made famous, not only for its exploits on the track but also by a certain Little Old Lady from Pasadena.
Perhaps you had to be there.
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Space shuttle pilot Doug Hurley will take a piece of Texas Motor Speedway into space.
Hurley was presented a TMS flag Saturday, which he plans to carry with him on the final space shuttle mission this summer. Shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to close out the 30-year shuttle program.
A season-ticket holder at Texas Motor Speedway since 2005, Hurley said he planned to  … Details
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