DINWIDDIE COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Ahead of the PlayNHRA Virginia Nationals that will kick off at noon on Friday at Virginia Motorsports Park, 8News got an inside look at racing with Lyle Barnett, an NHRA ...

Pro Mod veteran and 2023 World Series of Pro Mod champion Spencer Hyde is in and Blake Alexander is out of the Jim Head Head Racing NHRA Funny Car seat for 2025. Hyde, 33, will be making the move to a ...

Four-time and reigning NHRA Top Fuel Antron Brown is taking on a new drag racing challenge. The 48-year-old Brown, who has 64 career win in the Top Fuel class and 16 in Pro Stock Motorcycle, will be ...

As the name implies, Pro Street evolved from both the drag- and street-racing scenes. Its direct predecessors were the street freaks of the Seventies, American cars modified with drag parts for ...

Nicknamed The Batmobile, Brad Makinen's '41 Willys Americar is perhaps the most notable diesel drag racing vehicle to hit the scene in quite some time. With its smoothed, stretched, and radically ...

In 1974, Bill “Grumpy” Jenkins took the body shell of a Chevrolet Vega and built a race car inside of it. It changed the world of drag racing. And after that NHRA Pro Stock drag race Vega appeared, ...

Following a full season spent chasing records, championships, and big-money wins across the sport’s most competitive series, Pro Modified stars from the U.S., Canada, and beyond are once again heading ...

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Editor Note: HOT ROD is celebrating the 20th running of Drag Week by looking back in the event’s history books. One of the most prestigious honors is to be inducted into the HOT ROD Drag Week 200 MPH ...