Ultimately, winning the April 16 NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway wasn’t about adding an NHRA “Wally” trophy to Tony Stewart’s extensive collection of auto-racing hardware. It wasn’t about proving Stewart can excel at drag racing or even in the sometimes-chaotic spectacle of four cars…
SNOHOMISH, Wash. — One of drag racing’s most storied careers took flight in an aircraft junkyard in Davie, Fla., and recently landed in the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America. Teenager Darrell Gwynn, admittedly with “24/7 racing on the brain,” built up a nest egg for a race car by…
SNOHOMISH, Wash. — New to NHRA’s Camping World Drag Racing Series this season will be the Mission Foods #2Fast2Tasty Challenge bonus program. And while it’s a genuine blessing for the racers to have the world’s leading brand for tortillas and wraps taking a deeper involvement in the sport and no…
Just to be in Southern California — home of Hollywood, Disneyland and the Tournament of Roses Parade — was magical enough for former NHRA Pro Stock standout Allen Johnson. The hills of faraway east Tennessee were his home, but to stand on the very land where orange groves once blanketed…
SNOHOMISH, Wash. — Predictions are fun to read but scary to make. Aside from the all-too-real risk of being wrong at the end of the year and the equally unpleasant fear of offending people who are likeable, no one knows what the future holds. Therefore, predictions might have been Nostradamus’…
SNOHOMISH, Wash. — She’s nice. Really, she is. But Erica Enders, the five-time and reigning NHRA Pro Stock champion, promised at the start of the 2022 season — when she earned the first of 10 victories — that her rivals would see “no more nice Erica.” She was keenly disappointed…
Over a 20-year span, four racers have attempted to compete in both the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 on the same day — and three of them have taken a shot at drag racing as well. Tony Stewart has made the most serious commitment, marrying Top Fuel driver Leah…
Antron Brown, a three-time Top Fuel champion, laughed that knowing laugh and shook his head after talking with fellow new NHRA team owner Tony Stewart before the start of this season.
