The Harley-Davidson Screamin’ Eagle /Vance & Hines drag racing team clinched the 2012 NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle championship as rider Ed Krawiec roared to his ninth Pro Stock Motorcycle win of the season and third in a row at the Big O Tires NHRA Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The defending Pro Stock Motorcycle champion now leads the class by 111 points with one event left on the schedule. Only his teammate Andrew Hines remains in contention for the title.
“What a great weekend for our team,†said Krawiec. “I had an outstanding Harley-Davidson V-Rod motorcycle to race and I’m relaxed and confident   … More
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.
It’s a formula for fantastic racing and amazing entertainment. Or perhaps a recipe for disaster. Whatever the result, for four years the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series has ended its season with a special race. While each of the classes has its own races with bigger purses, it’s the races with combined classes that draw the attention and the crowds.
Pro Buggy and Pro Lite are very different vehicles. Open wheel vs. closed. High strung four-cylinder engines vs. (mostly) V8 engines in the Pro Lites. Light vs. heavy. But the lap times that each produces around a short course off road track are  … More
A fun and eventful day of rally. Apparently the zero cars saw a LOT of wildlife on stage, including elk. So our “encounter” could have been worse. Other rally teams had only brushes with fate, but we weren’t quite so fortunate.