Three-time NHRA Funny Car champion and former NASCAR team owner Raymond Beadle died Monday. Bang Shift reported Beadle had been dealing with medical complications. Beadle was wildly popular among race fans during the golden age of drag racing, winning the NHRA Funny Car championship three years in a row from 1979-1981, and also winning the
Unless you like dudes in unitards chasing each other around in a circle, we think you’ll find the OnAllCylinders Winter Games version of short track more your speed. And when we say speed, we mean 6-second nostalgia Funny Cars, old-school cool Gassers, and late-model drag machines battling pass-for-pass for straight-line supremacy. While Sochi’s version of
NHRA has instituted a rule requiring that all racecars be equipped with an NHRA-approved tethering system for header collectors, or a minimum half-inch stitch weld located on each primary tube. Enter Collector Tethers—designed by longtime NHRA sportsman racers Scott Lemen and Lynn Ellison. Their new product has also been approved for NMRA, NMCA and PSCA
From the northern corner of British Columbia to the southern tip of Florida, the International Hot Rod Association saw its most diverse lineup of world champions ever as the IHRA wrapped up its 2013 season Sunday at the Summit Racing Equipment World Finals at Memphis International Raceway. Tournament of Champions After a weather-filled Saturday,
NORWALK, Oh. — The Shakedown at the Summit made its way from Englishtown, NJ to Summit Motorsports Park in 2013 and brought with it a ton of wild race cars. We were able to capture images of the wild racing action on both Friday and Saturday. As always, we try to share this stuff with you.
[portfolio_slideshow id=22751] The U.S. Nationals. The Big Go. Indy. Call it what you want, but the NHRA U.S. Nationals is undeniably the biggest weekend in NHRA racing. Described by some as the Super Bowl of drag racing, the race is held over Labor Day weekend and offers five full days of racing action. The event
[portfolio_slideshow id=18052] Here’s a scenario to ponder: You hand picked the best components for an engine build, had those bits meticulously machined and assembled, and ended up with a stout engine that made 850 horsepower on the dyno. The engine runs perfectly on a cool spring day when temperatures and humidity are close to the
How does Warren Johnson seem to squeeze every last ounce of power from his engines? What is the secret to Greg Anderson’s consistency race in and race out? Those are good questions. And we’ve got good answers, because guys like Anderson, Don Garlits, and other accomplished professional and sportsman racers have shared some of the secrets
How does Warren Johnson seem to squeeze every last ounce of power from his engines? What is the secret to Greg Anderson’s consistency race in and race out? Those are good questions. And we’ve got good answers, because guys like Greg Anderson, Don Garlits, and other accomplished professional and sportsman racers have shared some of the
[portfolio_slideshow id=5537] We taught you the basics of bracket racing in a previous post. Now, we’re going to give you the next lesson—how to stage. There is more to staging than simply rolling your car up to the starting line and taking off. There are staging techniques and tricks that will help you maximize elapsed times
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