Defending category and race champion J.R. Todd held off Tommy Johnson Jr. to win his third consecutive Funny Car race at the LVMS strip.
NHRA Races
Mike Salinas (Top Fuel), Tim Wilkerson (Funny Car) and Bo Butner (Pro Stock) led qualifying Saturday for the second consecutive day in the Denso Spark Plugs NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Five years ago, NHRA Funny Car driver J.R. Todd was watching the NCAA basketball tournament at Buffalo Wild Wings in his hometown of Indianapolis when his cellphone rang and changed his racing life.
Mike Salinas, Tim Wilkerson and Bo Butner posted the top times in Friday qualifying for the Denso Spark Plugs NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
With Courtney Force having joined sister Ashley in retirement during the offseason, Brittany Force is the only daughter of 16-time Funny Car champion and NHRA legend John Force still racing.
Courtney Force, the winningest female Funny Car driver in NHRA history, is stepping away from driving.
The short and colorful history of Stardust Raceway is chronicled in a new book by Randall Cannon, a freelance author from Henderson.
Steve Torrence finally bagged the trophy he had been stalking since breaking into professional drag racing, clinching his first NHRA Top Fuel championship during the NHRA Toyota Nationals.
Antron Brown envisions a series in which the NHRA’s regular season would mean as much as the Countdown to the Championship, which continues Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Robert Hight and J.R. Todd have fought back from adversity in pursuit of NHRA’s Funny Car championship. They are racing this weekend at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Steve Torrence has won four straight races and is on the verge of winning his first NHRA Top Fuel championship. He could clinch the title this weekend in Las Vegas.
When NASCAR CEO Brian France Jr. was arrested and charged with DWI and criminal possession of a controlled substance in New York, his bizarre behavior at last year’s awards ceremony in Las Vegas suddenly had context.
National Hot Rod Association announced Wednesday that it will again host two drag racing events at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in 2019.
Tom “The Mongoose” McEwen, who died Monday at age 81, was a champion drag racer whose career spanned four decades. He was an even better self-promoter.
It was billed as twice as wide and twice as loud but it was 10 times the fun for DENSO Spark Plugs NHRA Four-Wide Nationals winners Steve Torrence, J.R. Todd and Vincent Nobile.
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With Courtney Force having joined sister Ashley in retirement during the offseason, Brittany Force is the only daughter of 16-time Funny Car champion and NHRA legend John Force still racing.
The short and colorful history of Stardust Raceway is chronicled in a new book by Randall Cannon, a freelance author from Henderson.
Steve Torrence finally bagged the trophy he had been stalking since breaking into professional drag racing, clinching his first NHRA Top Fuel championship during the NHRA Toyota Nationals.
IndyCar racing is moving under one televised umbrella. And for the first time since 1965, it won’t feature the ABC logo.
