Outdoor entertainment is always risky in March, even somewhere envied for year-round motorsports. With big risks come big rewards—or expensive, even disastrous, disappointments. Famoso Raceway's ...

Drag-racing thrill-seeker Alex Laughlin talks fearless Travis Pastrana to experience nitro for real. Nitro-in-name-only Pastrana will get a major jolt in the Top Fuel dragster Monday morning at zMAX ...

Nostalgia can be a dangerous thing. One can easily wane historically right up to the end on the first love, that first car, or even the first time the TV screen lit up withPongat home in the early ...

Don Schumacher Racing was fined $100,000 early Sunday afternoon for possessing unapproved nitromethane fuel in his pit area during the NHRA SummitRacing.com Nationals at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. All ...

In January 2021, the McLaren 765LT became the quickest production car on the quarter-mile, thanks to a 9.3-second run. That's an impressive benchmark for a road-legal car, but it's extremely slow ...

Casey Sapio For The Arizona Daily Star Mar 31, 2011 Mar 31, 2011 Even earplugs couldn't muffle the roar of top fuel dragsters and screaming fans during the Arizona Nitro Jam at Southwestern ...

Top Fuel dragsters make around 11,000 horsepower, and the insane part is they’re basically always seconds away from blowing up. The weird part is the engine isn’t really “cooled” like a normal car - ...

The very first electronically timed ¼-mile drag-racing run in history was made at the Ramona airport in 1949, said veteran drag racer Ron Johnson, who lives in Escondido. “Wally Parks, president of ...