Author’s Note: This story is about my father. His name is Steve Griswold. He’s a lifelong racing enthusiast who didn’t always have the resources to participate. He golfed a lot instead. But in 2007, in his mid-50s, he ran his stock C6 Corvette one night at the local strip and speed became the new obsession. Weekend
When bad things happen at the dragstrip, it can almost always be traced back to one thing: a lack of preparation. “We don’t spend our time talking about what to do if we hit the wall. What we spend our time talking about is: ‘Here’s how we’re never going to hit the wall,” said Frank
[portfolio_slideshow id=44735] Back in the day, “real” race cars didn’t have hood scoops. Instead they had an array of open injector stacks poking through the hood top. Scoops were superfluous. But then, Super Stock quickly became the rage. With racers struggling to find tenths (or even hundredths) of seconds, fresh air induction suddenly became important.
Citing Pro Stock racing’s need to “evolve from a technological standpoint, yet reconnect with its roots,” NHRA has announced major changes to its factory hot rod class. The changes will take place in two phases, with the major changes taking effect on Jan. 1, 2016. At that time, NHRA will require all Pro Stock teams to: Equip
Brainerd International Raceway, host of next month’s the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series’ Lucas Oil Nationals and a full schedule of other events, sustained major damage in a round of severe storms Monday. In addition to mangling huge sections of spectator stands (see photo above), the storms downed trees, rolled a couple RVs in
Pro Stock and Pro Mod race car driver and engine tuner Joe Lepone Jr. passed away Sunday after a long battle with cancer. Lepone Jr. was Summit Racing’s first-sponsored NHRA Pro Stock driver, piloting the Summit Racing Chevy Beretta from 1990-’92. Lepone Jr. has been heavily involved with drag racing throughout his entire adult life,
Mopar unveiled two new Dodge Challenger Drag Pak options Friday in a move that harkens back to Detroit’s muscle car wars of old, setting the stage for these powerful Chryslers to battle Ford Mustang Cobra Jets and Chevy COPO Camaros at drag strips everywhere. For the first time, Dodge is offering a supercharged 5.8L HEMI V8
Do you live for weekends at the track? For faces blackened by rubber flecks from sick burnouts? For nostrils filled with smells of burning race fuel and smoking tires? Does your pulse quicken at the starting line, waiting for that amber light? We understand. Victory is earned after hours of wrenching. Blood and sweat. Time
[portfolio_slideshow id=42114] Plenty of racers use ballast to meet specific class weight breaks. Clever racers use the ballast as a tool to effectively tune the car too. As we covered in Weight Plan (Part 1), the best way to build any race car is build it as light as you can, then use ballast to
Collector Tethers’ Just-N-Time Button™ is a trans brake button relatively new to market that provides drivers with maximum adjustibility. The button is NHRA-accepted. Collector Tethers has labeled it a “hybrid.” Collector Tethers tested the Just-N-Time trans brake button on an electronic test bench and comes with a spreadsheet that provides users with more than 100
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