Stream now with KPBS+ / Watch Monday, Jan. 5, 2026 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV. The film tells the unlikely story of a racing legend who captured multiple records and led Ford Motor Company to national ...

If you blink fast, roll racing and drag racing both look almost completely the same — if you're even lucky enough to catch any of it by the time you open your eyes again. However, drag racing and roll ...

Before the NHRA brass get too excited about their TV-ratings coup this past weekend—following the sport’s largest audience in September from the US Nationals—they need to recognize the nuances of it.

Championship drag racing is coming back to Michigan for the first time since 1960, the National Hot Rod Association announced.

Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or ...

A drag racer walked away from a harrowing crash after the Corvette he was racing at World Wide Technology Raceway in Illinois went airborne. The video, taken during a high-speed test run on May 31 for ...

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 ...