From that far-off seat in the bleachers, it may well appear that "little guy" drag racers have been flogging the same old cars for quite some time now: stripped-down coupes and roadsters in the ...

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 ...

Kil-Kare Speedway, the Xenia Twp. raceway that has attracted stock and drag racing enthusiasts since 1951, was in the news recently when it was announced that it has been purchased by the ...

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 ...

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, ...

You can measure how wild 1960s drag racing really was by looking at the cars that forced officials to rewrite the rulebook.