The 1970s was a golden era for drag racing, a time when legends were made on the quarter-mile strip. This period saw the rise of several icons who left an indelible mark on the sport, driving some of ...

Burnouts. Hot rods. Hemis. Horsepower. The smell of racing fuel. Trophy girls. Drag racing back in the day wasn’t polished or corporate — it was raw, loud, and rebellious. From two friends squaring ...

Classic drag racing and road course performance symbolize two distinct yet interconnected facets of automotive culture. Each ...

The races, last held in 2019, were put on hold during construction of the Twin Ports Interchange project. They will be held again in late September. Duff Baxter, in his 1966 Shelby GT35H Ford Mustang, ...

Organized drag racing celebrates its 70th birthday on July 2, 2020. On that day in 1950 the first "official" drag race took place at an out-of-commission Army airbase in Santa Ana, California. Soon ...

In 1952, the brilliant Rod & Custom magazine writer Roger Huntington did some math to figure out the quickest possible quarter-mile time drag racers would ever achieve: Just 9.1 seconds at 166 mph. He ...